Thermochemistry Facility, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616, U.S.A. Department of Earth, Space, and Environmental Sciences, Piedmont College, Demorest, Georgia 30535, U.S.A. Department of Geosciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794, U.S.A. Sandia National Laboratories, Al...

Thermochemistry of radicals is not as extensively tabulated as that of stable molecular species, even when group additivity schemes are applied. When these radicals contain oxygen or nitrogen atoms, the availability of radical groups is even more limited. Many oxygen- and nitrogen-containing radicals and molecules are present in the atmosphere, and thermochemistry is a valuable component of the...

Density functional theory (DFT) studies were performed to investigate the influence of coadsorbates on the nitrogen oxide dissociation on the vicinal rhodium(311) surface. This study amplifies prior studies on the dissociation of oxygen and nitrogen oxide on the (111) facet of rhodium. The influence of coadsorbates on the kinetic parameters and thermochemistry of the NO dissociation on Rh311 wa...

We develop and validate the XYGJ-OS functional, based on the adiabatic connection formalism and Görling-Levy perturbation theory to second order and using the opposite-spin (OS) ansatz combined with locality of electron correlation. XYGJ-OS with local implementation scales as N(3) with an overall accuracy of 1.28 kcal/mol for thermochemistry, bond dissociation energies, reaction barrier heights...

To simulate emissions of nitrogen-containing compounds in practical combustion environments, it is necessary to have accurate values for their thermochemical parameters, as well as accurate kinetic values to describe the rates of their formation and decomposition. Significant disparity is observed in the literature for the former, and we therefore present herein high-accuracy ab initio gas-phas...

The 14 Minnesota density functionals published between the years 2005 and early 2016 are benchmarked on a comprehensive database of 4986 data points (84 data sets) involving molecules composed of main-group elements. The database includes noncovalent interactions, isomerization energies, thermochemistry, and barrier heights, as well as equilibrium bond lengths and equilibrium binding energies o...

Previously, we have put forward the X1 method that combines B3LYP with neural network correction for an accurate yet efficient prediction of thermochemistry. Without paying additional computational cost, X1 reduces B3LYP's mean absolute deviation (MAD) for a set of 92 bond dissociation energies (BDEs) from 5.5 to 2.4 kcal mol(-1). In this work, we extend X1 and propose the X1s method by includi...

An accurate value for the heat of formation of boron trifluoride is of significant importance because this value is involved in the thermochemistry of many boron compounds. The study of the thermochemistry of boron compounds was for a long time hampered by difficulties in measuring a suitable reaction involving elemental boron. The heat of formation of boric oxide, for instance, was uncertain t...