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On the Calculation of Vibrational Frequencies for Molecules in Solution Beyond the Harmonic Approximation
Chiara Cappelli1, Susanna Monti1, Giovanni Scalmani1
1Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via Risorgimento 35, I-56126 Pisa, Italy, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, via Moruzzi,1 I-56124 Pisa, Italy, Gaussian, Inc., 340 Quinnipiac Street, Building 40, Wallingford, Connecticut 06492, and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7 I-56126 Pisa, Italy.
Abstract:
We report some results on the calculation of vibrational spectra of molecules in condensed phase with accounting simultaneously for anharmonicity and solute-solvent interactions, the latter being described by means of the polarizable continuum model (PCM). Density functional theory force fields are employed as well as a new implementation of the PCM cavity and its derivatives. The results obtained for formaldehyde and simple peptide prototypes show that our approach is able to yield a quantitative agreement with experiments for vacuo-to-solvent harmonic and anharmonic frequency shifts.
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