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Title: | Ab initio investigation of the ground X<sup> 2</sup>A′ [X<sup> 2</sup>A<inf>1</inf>] and low-lying excited electronic states of C<inf>2</inf>B | Authors: | Jerosimić, Stanka Senćanski, Milan V. Radić-Perić, Jelena |
Keywords: | Ab initio approaches;C B 2;Symmetry breaking;The ground and excited states | Issue Date: | 30-Mar-2010 | Journal: | Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM | Abstract: | Ab initio single- and multi-reference approaches, i.e. restricted open-shell Hartree-Fock (ROHF), coupled-cluster singles-and-doubles with approximate triples correction [CCSD(T)], complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF), 2nd-order CAS perturbation theory (CASPT2), multi-reference singles-and-doubles configuration-interaction (MRSDCI), and density-functional B3LYP - in the cc-pVQZ basis set - have been employed to investigate the structure of the ground X 2A′ [X 2A1] state of the triatomic C2B. We found that the ground state of the cyclic C2B is prone to symmetry breaking along the asymmetric stretching coordinate. Single-reference highly correlated CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVQZ method (as well as 'static'-correlated CASSCF, and B3LYP) predicts two equivalent global minima of the adiabatic potential energy function, with the barrier between the minima of about 20 cm-1 at C2v geometry. Wavefunctions almost free from SB are obtained using the MRSDCI approach based on the CASSCF and state-averaged (SA) CASSCF wavefunctions. Highly correlated multi-reference full-valence (FV) CASPT2 model exactly predicts a C2v equilibrium geometry; however, the highest level FV-CAS-MRSDCI/aug-cc-pVQZ method predicts lower-symmetry structure. We found that this effect is not artifactual as stated in Leonard et al. (2000) [5]. SB arises from a pseudo-Jahn-Teller effect (PJTE), the non-adiabatic interaction with the first excited 12B2 state, which has the same symmetry as the asymmetric stretching coordinate in the ground state. Several low-lying excited electronic states have been optimized using SA-CAS-MRSDCI/aug-cc-pVTZ procedure. The first excited doublet is 12B2 (0.95 eV), and the lowest-lying quartet state 14B2 (1.74 eV). The vertical excitation spectra and transition matrix elements for six low-lying doublet and four quartet states were calculated using full valence SA-CAS-MRSDCI/aug-cc-pVTZ procedure. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
URI: | https://dspace.ffh.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/669 | ISSN: | 0166-1280 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.theochem.2009.12.020 |
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