TY - JOUR
T1 - Heats of formation of alkali metal and alkaline earth metal oxides and hydroxides
T2 - Surprisingly demanding targets for high-level ab initio procedures
AU - Sullivan, Michael B.
AU - Iron, Mark A.
AU - Redfern, Paul C.
AU - Martin, Jan M.L.
AU - Curtiss, Larry A.
AU - Radom, Leo
PY - 2003/7/21
Y1 - 2003/7/21
N2 - High-level ab initio calculations, including variants of the Wn and G3 procedures, have been used to determine the structures and heats of formation of the alkali metal and alkaline earth metal oxides and hydroxides (M2O, MOH: M = Li, Na, and K; MO, M(OH)2: M = Be, Mg, and Ca). Our best structures were obtained at the CCSD(T)(riv,rv)/aug'-cc-pWCVQZ level and are in uniformly close agreement with available experimental data, with a mean absolute deviation from experimental metal-oxygen bond lengths of just 0.007 Å.Structures obtained with CCSD(T)/cc-pWCVQZ, B3-LYP/cc-pVTZ, B3-LYP/6-31G(2df,p), and MP2(full)/6-311+G(3df,2p) are also in good agreement with experiment. Zero-point vibrational energies and enthalpy temperature corrections are found to be relatively insensitive to the various procedures employed. However, the heats of formation for these molecules are challenging targets for high-level ab initio procedures. In the Wn-type procedures, it is found that expanding the correlation space on the metal atoms from the normal relaxed valence (rv) (or frozen-core) specification to relaxed inner valence (riv) requires the use of newly developed core-valence basis sets (cc-pWCVnZ) in the extrapolation calculations to obtain reliable results. Our best calculated heats of formation (ΔHf 298) come from a procedure designated W2C//ACQ, while G3[CC](dir,full) is the best of the G3-type procedures. Recommended ΔHf 298 values, weighted toward the W2C//ACQ results, are -157 ± 5 (Li2O), -25 ± 5 (Na2O), -60 ± 5 (K2O), +130 ± 12 (BeO), +142 ± 10 (MgO), +26 ± 17 (CaO), -239 ± 5 (LiOH), -189 ± 5 (NaOH), -223 ± 5 (KOH), -632 ± 7 (Be(OH)2), -547 ± 5 (Mg(OH)2), and -604 ± 19 (Ca(OH)2) kJ mol-1.
AB - High-level ab initio calculations, including variants of the Wn and G3 procedures, have been used to determine the structures and heats of formation of the alkali metal and alkaline earth metal oxides and hydroxides (M2O, MOH: M = Li, Na, and K; MO, M(OH)2: M = Be, Mg, and Ca). Our best structures were obtained at the CCSD(T)(riv,rv)/aug'-cc-pWCVQZ level and are in uniformly close agreement with available experimental data, with a mean absolute deviation from experimental metal-oxygen bond lengths of just 0.007 Å.Structures obtained with CCSD(T)/cc-pWCVQZ, B3-LYP/cc-pVTZ, B3-LYP/6-31G(2df,p), and MP2(full)/6-311+G(3df,2p) are also in good agreement with experiment. Zero-point vibrational energies and enthalpy temperature corrections are found to be relatively insensitive to the various procedures employed. However, the heats of formation for these molecules are challenging targets for high-level ab initio procedures. In the Wn-type procedures, it is found that expanding the correlation space on the metal atoms from the normal relaxed valence (rv) (or frozen-core) specification to relaxed inner valence (riv) requires the use of newly developed core-valence basis sets (cc-pWCVnZ) in the extrapolation calculations to obtain reliable results. Our best calculated heats of formation (ΔHf 298) come from a procedure designated W2C//ACQ, while G3[CC](dir,full) is the best of the G3-type procedures. Recommended ΔHf 298 values, weighted toward the W2C//ACQ results, are -157 ± 5 (Li2O), -25 ± 5 (Na2O), -60 ± 5 (K2O), +130 ± 12 (BeO), +142 ± 10 (MgO), +26 ± 17 (CaO), -239 ± 5 (LiOH), -189 ± 5 (NaOH), -223 ± 5 (KOH), -632 ± 7 (Be(OH)2), -547 ± 5 (Mg(OH)2), and -604 ± 19 (Ca(OH)2) kJ mol-1.
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U2 - 10.1021/jp034851f
DO - 10.1021/jp034851f
M3 - Article
SN - 1089-5639
VL - 107
SP - 5617
EP - 5630
JO - Journal of Physical Chemistry A
JF - Journal of Physical Chemistry A
IS - 29
ER -