posted on 2018-03-06, 11:22authored byAnatoliy V. Luzanov, Felix PlasserFelix Plasser, Anita Das, Hans Lischka
We present a verification and significant algorithmic improvement of the quasi-correlation tightbinding (QCTB) scheme (a H¨uckel-Hubbard-type model mimicking electron correlation) for describing
effectively unpaired electrons in the spirit of Head-Gordon’s approach [M. Head-Gordon, Chem. Phys. Lett. 380, 488 (2003)]. For comparison purposes, results based on the high-level ab initio multireference averaged quadratic coupled cluster method previously computed in our works are invoked. In doing so, typical polyaromatic hydrocarbons (polyacenes, periacenes, zethrenes, and the
Clar goblet) are studied. The evaluation shows that the QCTB H¨uckel-like scheme extended for electron correlation effects provides a qualitatively and in several cases also quantitatively good picture of the unpairing electrons in formally closed-shell electronic systems. Additionally, fairly large nanographene systems of triangulene structure (C426) and a perforated nanoribbon (C8860) have been treated at QCTB level. Two analytical model problems in the framework of QCTB prove the ability of this approximation to give a correct description of natural orbital occupancy spectra. For the studied QCTB scheme, an efficient algorithm is elaborated, and large-scale calculations of radical characteristics for nanographene networks with thousands of carbon atoms are possible.
Funding
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Project No. CHE-1213263, by the Austrian Science Fund (SFB F41, ViCom), and by the VSC Research Center funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW).
History
School
Science
Department
Chemistry
Published in
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume
146
Issue
6
Pages
064106 - 064106
Citation
LUZANOV, A.V. ...et al., 2017. Evaluation of the quasi correlated tight-binding (QCTB) model for describing polyradical character in polycyclic hydrocarbons. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 146: 064106.
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AIP
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Acceptance date
2017-01-19
Publication date
2017
Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal The Journal of Chemical Physics and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4975196