Post-CCSD(T) Thermochemistry of Chlorine Fluorides as a Challenging Test Case for Evaluating Density Functional Theory and Composite Ab Initio Methods

Title
Post-CCSD(T) Thermochemistry of Chlorine Fluorides as a Challenging Test Case for Evaluating Density Functional Theory and Composite Ab Initio Methods
Publication Date
2025-02-01
Author(s)
Karton, Amir
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7981-508X
Email: akarton@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:akarton
Haasler, Matthias
Kaupp, Martin
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co KGaA
Place of publication
Germany
DOI
10.1002/cphc.202400750
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/63964
Abstract

Quantum chemistry plays a key role in exploring the chemical properties of highly reactive chlorine polyfluoride compounds (ClFn). Here, we investigate the thermochemical properties of ClFn species (n=2–6) by means of high-level thermochemical procedures approximating the CCSDT(Q) and CCSDTQ5 energies at the complete basis set limit. We consider total atomization energies (TAEs), Cl F bond dissociation energies (BDEs), F2 elimination energies (F2 elim.), ionization potentials (IPs), and electron affinities (EAs). The TAEs have significant contributions from post-CCSD(T) correlation effects. The higher-order triple excitations, CCSDT CCSD(T), are negative and amount to 0.338 (ClF2), 0.727 (ClF3), 0.903 (ClF4), 1.335 (ClF5), and 1.946 (ClF6) kcal/mol. However, the contributions from quadruple (and, where available, also quintuple) excitations are much larger and positive and amount to +1.335 (ClF2), +1.387 (ClF3), +2.367 (ClF4), +2.399 (ClF5), and +3.432 (ClF6) kcal/mol. Thus, the contributions from post-CCSD(T) excitations exceed the threshold of chemical accuracy in nearly all cases. Due to their increasing hyper-valency and multireference character, the ClFn series provides an interesting and challenging test case for both density functional theory and low-level composite ab initio procedures. Here, we highlight the limitations in achieving overall chemical accuracy across all DFT and most composite ab initio procedures.

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Citation
ChemPhysChem, 26(3), p. 1-11
ISSN
1439-7641
1439-4235
Start page
1
End page
11

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