An Intuitively Understandable Quality Measure for Theoretical Vibrational Spectra
Henning Henschel1, David van der Spoel1
1Uppsala Center for Computational Chemistry, Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Husargatan 3, Box 596, SE-75124 Uppsala, Sweden.
Abstract:
Computational chemistry has become a central tool in spectroscopic studies in most of chemical science. The quality of a calculated vibrational spectrum is commonly expressed as the deviation of the peak position from the experimental reference. With the increasing application of vibrational spectroscopy to complex (biological) systems, this is likely not sustainable. Here we present a quality measure for theoretical vibrational spectra based on matching the spectra to a reference database with the help of correlation coefficients. This approach can easily be applied to large sets of data and complex spectra without easily identifiable peak positions. We demonstrate this on a database of infrared spectra of 670 compounds using six different theoretical (DFT and force field) methods. Most importantly, it is intuitively understandable by both theoreticians and experimentalists.
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