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Area of Science:

  • Computational Chemistry
  • Quantum Chemistry
  • Materials Science

Background:

  • Nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) is an industrially significant chelating agent.
  • Accurate prediction of NTA's interaction with transition metals is crucial for its applications.
  • Evaluating diverse electronic-structure methods is necessary for reliable computational predictions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the accuracy of various electronic-structure methods in predicting NTA's selectivity for transition metal ions.
  • To evaluate the performance of these methods in determining the spin-state energetics of NTA-Fe(III) complexes.
  • To identify the most reliable computational approaches for these properties.

Main Methods:

  • Investigated methods include Density Functional Theory (DFT), Random Phase Approximation (RPA), Coupled Cluster (CC) theory, Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo (AFQMC), Complete Active Space Self-Consistent Field (CASSCF), N-electron Valence State Perturbation Theory (NEVPT2), and Multiconfiguration Pair-Density Functional Theory (MC-PDFT).
  • Explored different active space selection strategies.
  • Employed the Density Matrix Renormalization Group (DMRG) for large active spaces.

Main Results:

  • Most methods showed good agreement with experimental data for NTA's selectivity, particularly for high-spin transition metal complexes.
  • Coupled Cluster (CC) methods provided the highest accuracy, followed by range-separated DFT and AFQMC.
  • Predicting spin-state energetics for Fe(III) complexes was more challenging, with CC, DMRG-NEVPT2, and AFQMC agreeing on high-spin state preference, contrary to most DFT and RPA results.

Conclusions:

  • Advanced methods like CC theory and AFQMC are highly accurate for NTA selectivity and spin-state energetics.
  • NEVPT2 can achieve high accuracy if consistent active spaces are used.
  • Standard DFT and RPA methods struggle with predicting spin-state energetics accurately, sometimes favoring incorrect low-spin states.