Accuracy and interpretability: The devil and the holy grail. New routes across old boundaries in computational spectroscopy

C Puzzarini, J Bloino, N Tasinato, V Barone - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
The past decade has witnessed an increasing interaction between experiment and theory in
the field of molecular spectroscopy. On the computational side, ongoing developments of …

Anharmonic molecular force fields

AG Császár - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
An anharmonic force field is defined as a higher‐order Taylor‐series expansion of the
molecular potential energy surface (PES) around a reference geometry, usually chosen to …

Watching a hydroperoxyalkyl radical (• QOOH) dissociate

AS Hansen, T Bhagde, KB Moore III, DR Moberg… - Science, 2021 - science.org
A prototypical hydroperoxyalkyl radical (• QOOH) intermediate, transiently formed in the
oxidation of volatile organic compounds, was directly observed through its infrared …

Numerical-analytic implementation of the higher-order canonical Van Vleck perturbation theory for the interpretation of medium-sized molecule vibrational spectra

SV Krasnoshchekov, EV Isayeva… - The Journal of Physical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Anharmonic vibrational states of semirigid polyatomic molecules are often studied using the
second-order vibrational perturbation theory (VPT2). For efficient higher-order analysis, an …

Vibrational energy levels with arbitrary potentials using the Eckart-Watson Hamiltonians and the discrete variable representation

E Matyus, G Czako, BT Sutcliffe… - The Journal of chemical …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
An effective and general algorithm is suggested for variational vibrational calculations of N-
atomic molecules using orthogonal, rectilinear internal coordinates. The protocol has three …

Geometric energy derivatives at the complete basis set limit: Application to the equilibrium structure and molecular force field of formaldehyde

WJ Morgan, DA Matthews, M Ringholm… - Journal of chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Geometric energy derivatives which rely on core-corrected focal-point energies extrapolated
to the complete basis set (CBS) limit of coupled cluster theory with iterative and noniterative …

Assigning quantum labels to variationally computed rotational-vibrational eigenstates of polyatomic molecules

E Mátyus, C Fábri, T Szidarovszky, G Czakó… - The Journal of …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
A procedure is investigated for assigning physically transparent, approximate vibrational
and rotational quantum labels to variationally computed eigenstates. Pure vibrational wave …

Molecular structure of proline

WD Allen, E Czinki, AG Császár - Chemistry–A European …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The molecular structures of the two lowest‐energy conformers of proline, Pro‐I and Pro‐II,
have been characterized by ab initio electronic structure computations. An extensive MP2/6 …

Variational quantum mechanical and active database approaches to the rotational-vibrational spectroscopy of ketene, H2CCO

C Fábri, E Mátyus, T Furtenbacher, L Nemes… - The Journal of …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
A variational quantum mechanical protocol is presented for the computation of rovibrational
energy levels of semirigid molecules using discrete variable representation of the Eckart …

The highly anharmonic BH5 potential energy surface characterized in the ab initio limit

MS Schuurman, WD Allen… - The Journal of …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
The strong sensitivity to level of theory of the salient features of the ground state potential
energy surface of BH 5 has been overcome by rigorously converged ab initio computations …