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A Technical Guide for Performing Spectroscopic Measurements on Metal-Organic Frameworks
Published on: April 28, 2023
Quantum mechanical study of the structure and spectroscopic, first order hyperpolarizability, Fukui function, NBO,
N R Sheela1, S Sampathkrishnan, M Thirumalai Kumar
1Department of Applied Physics, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur 602 105, India.
Abstract:
The title compound, Phenyl-N-(4-Methyl Phenyl) Nitrone (PN4MPN) was synthesized and characterized by FT-IR, FT-Raman and (1)HNMR, (13)CNMR spectral analysis. The molecular geometry, harmonic vibrational frequencies and bonding features of the title compound in the ground state are computed at the Hartree-Fock/6-311++G(d,p) and three parameter hybrid functional Lee-Yang-Parr/6-311++G(d,p) levels of theory. The calculated results show that the predicted geometry can well reproduce the structural parameters. The assignments of the vibrational spectra have been carried out with the help of normal co-ordinate analysis (NCA) following the scaled quantum mechanical force field methodology (SQMF). The calculated HOMO and LUMO energies confirm that charge transfer occurs within the molecule. The dipole moment (μ), polarizability (α) and hyperpolarizability (β) of the investigated molecule is calculated by using HF/6-311++G(d,p) and B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) methods on the finite field approach. Besides, Molecular Electrostatic Potential (MEP), Natural Bond Orbital analysis (NBO) and thermodynamical properties are described from the computational process. The electron density-based local reactivity descriptor such as Fukui functions are calculated to explain the chemical selectivity or reactivity site in PN4MPN. Finally, the calculations are applied to simulated FT-IR and FT-Raman spectra of the title compound which show good agreement with observed spectra.
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