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 …

Highly-accurate quartic force fields for the prediction of anharmonic rotational constants and fundamental vibrational frequencies

MB Gardner, BR Westbrook, RC Fortenberry… - Spectrochimica Acta Part …, 2021 - Elsevier
The CcCR quartic force field (QFF) methodology is capable of computing B 0 and C 0
rotational constants to within 35 MHz (0.14%) of experiment for triatomic and larger …

2018 census of interstellar, circumstellar, extragalactic, protoplanetary disk, and exoplanetary molecules

BA McGuire - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
To date, 204 individual molecular species, comprised of 16 different elements, have been
detected in the interstellar and circumstellar medium by astronomical observations. These …

2021 census of interstellar, circumstellar, extragalactic, protoplanetary disk, and exoplanetary molecules

BA McGuire - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
To date, 241 individual molecular species, composed of 19 different elements, have been
detected in the interstellar and circumstellar medium by astronomical observations. These …

Chemical equilibrium in AGB atmospheres: successes, failures, and prospects for small molecules, clusters, and condensates

M Agúndez, JI Martínez, PL de Andres… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Chemical equilibrium has proven extremely useful for predicting the chemical composition of
AGB atmospheres. Here we use a recently developed code and an updated thermochemical …

On the potential of silicon as a building block for life

JJ Petkowski, W Bains, S Seager - Life, 2020 - mdpi.com
Despite more than one hundred years of work on organosilicon chemistry, the basis for the
plausibility of silicon-based life has never been systematically addressed nor objectively …

The performance of hybrid and F12/F12c explicitly correlated coupled cluster methods for use in anharmonic vibrational frequency computations

AG Watrous, BR Westbrook… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A hybrid quartic force field approach produces the same accuracies as non‐hybrid methods
but for less than one quarter of the computational time. This method utilizes explicitly …

Quantum astrochemical spectroscopy

RC Fortenberry - International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, the origins of astrochemistry and the initial applications of quantum chemistry
to the discovery of new molecules in space are discussed. Furthermore, more recent …

Reaction dynamics of C(3P) + Si2(X ) → Si(3P) + SiC(X 3Π) on a global CHIPR potential energy surface of the ground state Si2C(X 1A1)

X Li, Z Qin, G Chen, L Liu - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The dynamics of C (3P)+ Si2 (X)→ Si (3P)+ SiC (X 3Π) on its ground state Si2C (X 1A1) are
of great significance in carbon-rich interstellar chemistry. Using the combined-hyperbolic …

The millimeter IRAM-30 m line survey toward IK Tauri

LV Prieto, CS Contreras, J Cernicharo… - Astronomy & …, 2017 - aanda.org
Aims. We aim to investigate the physical and chemical properties of the molecular envelope
of the oxygen-rich AGB star IK Tau. Methods. We carried out a millimeter wavelength line …