Ab initio investigation of titanium hydroxide isomers and their cations, TiOH(0,+) and HTiO(0,+)

We studied the electronic and geometrical structure of the [Ti, O, H](0,+) species, using large basis sets and both single-reference coupled cluster and multireference configuration interaction methodologies. The electronic structure of HTiO(0,+) is interpreted qualitatively in terms of a hydrogen atom bonding to TiO(0,+), while the structure of TiOH(0,+) is interpreted in terms of Ti(+,2+) bonding to OH(-). Potential energy profiles are reported as functions of the Ti-OH and H-TiO bond lengths, and of the H-Ti-O angle. For a total of 33 stationary points on the potential energy surfaces, we report absolute energies, geometries, and harmonic frequencies. For the neutral species, dipole moments are also given.