Ab initio study of spectroscopic properties and anharmonic force fields of MNH2 (M = Li, Na, K)
Shanshan Ma1, Meishan Wang1, Yanli Liu1
1School of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, China.
Abstract:
The spectroscopic properties and anharmonic force fields of NaNH2 are studied in present work by DFT (B3P86 and B3PW91) and MP2 methods in combination with 6-311++G(2d, 2p) and 6-311++G(3df, 2pd) basis sets. The calculated equilibrium geometry, ground state rotational constants and centrifugal distortion constants of NaNH2 at B3P86/6-311++G(3df, 2pd) theoretical level agree very well with the corresponding experimental values. Noteworthy, some spectroscopic constants and anharmonic force fields of NaNH2, which have not been experimentally measured, are firstly predicted. In addition, the spectroscopic properties of KNH2 are also predicted at the B3P86/6-311++G(3df, 2pd) level of theory. The influences of metal atoms on the equilibrium geometry, anharmonic constants, rotational constants, centrifugal distortion constants of MNH2 (M = Li, Na, K) are analyzed intuitively. One can find that the metal atoms affect the rotational constants, part of centrifugal distortion constants (DK, DJK, HK, and HKJ), M-N bond length and some anharmonic constants of MNH2.
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