Octahedral Fe(2+) molecules are particularly interesting as they often exhibit a spin-crossover transition. In spite of the many efforts aimed at assessing the performances of density functional theory for such systems, an exchange-correlation functional able to account accurately for the energetic of the various possible spin-states has not been identified yet. Here, we critically discuss the ...

Smooth potential energy surfaces and analytic gradients are obtained for cavitation, dispersion, and repulsion free energies in the polarizable continuum model using the fixed points with variable areas (FIXPVA) tessellation scheme. In addition, it is shown that FIXPVA can reproduce the standard GEPOL results to within 1 kcal/mol.

We consider the thermally activated quantum diffusion of a molecular dimer in a periodic surface potential by means of a time-dependent wave packet method. We show that the potential energy surface resulting from the interplay of intradimer and dimer-surface interactions can lead to resonant states and predict high tunneling probabilities at specific, below barrier, energies that depend also on...

A global double many-body expansion potential energy surface is reported for the electronic ground state of H2S by fitting accurate ab initio energies calculated at the multireference configuration interaction level with the aug-cc-pVQZ basis set, after slightly correcting semiempirically the dynamical correlation by the double many-body expansion-scaled external correlation method. The functio...

The availability of collisional rate coefficients is a prerequisite for an accurate interpretation of astrophysical observations, since the observed media often harbour densities where molecules are populated under non-local thermodynamic equilibrium conditions. In the current study, we present calculations of rate coefficients suitable to describe the various spin isomers ofmultiply deuterated...

The high resolution absorption spectrum of monodeuterated water, HDO, has been recorded by Intracavity Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (ICLAS) in the 12145–13160 cm 1 region. The achieved sensitivity (noise equivalent absorption on the order of amin 10 9 cm ) allowed detecting transitions with line strengths as weak as 10 27 cm/molecule which is about 50 times lower than the weakest line intensit...

The low-temperature rotational (de-) excitation of C3 (X 1 g ) by collisions with He ( S ) is studied using an ab initio potential energy surface (PES). This PES has been calculated using the singleand double-excitation coupledcluster approach with noniterative perturbational treatment of triple excitations [CCSD(T)] and the augmented correlation-consistent triplebasis set (aug-cc-pVTZ) with bo...

The crossed beams reaction of the phenyl radical (C6H5) with 1,2-butadiene (CH3HCCCH2) was studied under single collision at two collision energies. The crossed beams data were combined with electronic structure calculations on the C10H11 potential energy surface. The reaction was found to follow indirect scattering dynamics via an addition of the phenyl radical with its radical center to the s...