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Manish Kumar Tripathi1, Venkatnarayan Ramanathan1.
Abstract
B3LYP/cc-pV(D/T/Q)Z and CCSD/cc-pVDZ levels of theory predict three minima for both dimers and trimers of methanethiol. Predictions at B3LYP/cc-pVDZ corroborates exceedingly well with the earlier reported experimental value but significantly differ from the previous computational predictions. Interaction energy between the molecules decreases with an increase in the size of the basis set for both the dimer and trimer. The dipole moment of methanethiol dimer gets reduced at the B3LYP/cc-pVDZ level of theory relative to all minima configurations, and the same is seen for trimer also. These new predictions are well supported by atoms in molecules (AIM), frontier molecular orbital (FMO), Mulliken charge (MC), and natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis. This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry.Entities:
Year: 2021 PMID: 35479559 PMCID: PMC9040644 DOI: 10.1039/d1ra04900c
Source DB: PubMed Journal: RSC Adv ISSN: 2046-2069 Impact factor: 4.036
Fig. 1(a) Topological basin surface with bond critical points (3, −1) of methanethiol dimer (B3LYP/cc-pVDZ). (b) Topological basin surface with bond critical points (3, −1) of methanethiol trimer (B3LYP/cc-pVDZ).
Relative change in interaction energy of different conformers of dimer and trimer of the methanethiol moleculea
| Methanethiol dimer | Methanethiol trimer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conformers/methods | 1A, 1E | 1B, 1D | 1C | 2B, 2C, 2E | 2A | 2D |
| B3LYP/cc-pVDZ | 0.00 | 0.54 | 1.51 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 2.14 |
| B3LYP/cc-pVTZ | 2.67 | 2.65 | 3.43 | 6.22 | 8.41 | 7.48 |
| B3LYP/cc-pVQZ | 3.24 | 3.26 | 3.96 | 7.38 | 9.59 | 8.59 |
| B3LYP/CBS | 3.66 | 3.71 | 3.96 | 8.23 | 10.45 | 9.40 |
| CCSD/cc-pVDZ | 0.78 | 0.05 | 0.10 | 4.80 | 5.74 | 3.46 |
Note: all values in the above table are referenced with respect to the most stable dimer and trimer at B3LYP/cc-pVDZ as this is the level of theory which matched well with the experiment for normal mode of vibration.
Absolute values of the S–H vibrational frequencies (ν) at B3LYP/cc-pVDZ level of theory (numbers in bracket represent atom number that are given in Fig. SI2)
| This work | Past work from ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| S–H stretch |
| @MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ (cm−1) (Harmonic) | Experiment (cm−1) |
| 1A and 1E (7,8) | 2600 | 2749 | 2601 |
| (1, 2) | 2652 | 2746 | |
| 2A (1, 3) | 2574 | 2694 | 2567 |
| (7, 9) | 2584 | 2674 | |
| (13, 15) | 2584 | 2659 | |
Note: the values correspond to the most stable structures (erroneously) assumed by Lung Fu et al. in their work.
| Dimer | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy parameter | 1A & 1E | 1B & 1D | 1C |
|
| −220.7 | −221.0 | −221.8 |
|
| 86.6 | 90.9 | 91.0 |
| HOMO–LUMO gap ( | 307.3 | 311.9 | 312.8 |
| Dipole moment (D) | 1.82 | 1.47 | 0.00 |
| Hardness ( | −67.1 | −65.1 | −65.4 |
| Chemical potential ( | 67.1 | 65.1 | 65.4 |
| Electronegativity ( | −67.1 | −65.1 | −65.4 |
| Electrophilicity index ( | −33.6 | −32.6 | −32.7 |
| Trimer | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2A | 2B, 2C, & 2E | 2D | |
|
| −222.7 | −222.6 | −222.5 |
|
| 78.9 | 89.5 | 89.5 |
| HOMO–LUMO gap ( | 301.6 | 312.1 | 312.0 |
| Dipole moment ( | 3.43 | 1.40 | 1.80 |
| Hardness ( | −71.9 | −66.6 | −66.5 |
| Chemical potential ( | 71.9 | 66.6 | 66.5 |
| Electronegativity ( | −71.9 | −66.6 | −66.5 |
| Electrophilicity index ( | −36.0 | −33.3 | −33.3 |
| Dimer | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Atom label | 1A and 1E | 1B and 1D | 1C |
| 1(S) | −0.112 | −0.106 | −0.105 |
| 2(H of S) | 0.083 | 0.075 | 0.065 |
| 3(C) | −0.175 | −0.180 | −0.180 |
| 4(H of C) | 0.072 | 0.078 | 0.067 |
| 5(H of C) | 0.058 | 0.070 | 0.086 |
| 6(H of C) | 0.070 | 0.069 | 0.068 |
| 7(S) | −0.099 | −0.110 | −0.105 |
| 8(H of S) | 0.066 | 0.066 | 0.065 |
| 9(C) | −0.183 | −0.180 | −0.181 |
| 10(H of C) | 0.076 | 0.068 | 0.086 |
| 11(H of C) | 0.075 | 0.085 | 0.067 |
| 12(H of C) | 0.070 | 0.065 | 0.068 |
| Trimer | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Atom label | 2A | 2B, 2C, and 2E | 2D |
| 1(S) | −0.114 | −0.122 | −0.122 |
| 2(C) | −0.181 | −0.176 | −0.176 |
| 3(H of S) | 0.089 | 0.074 | 0.089 |
| 4(H of C) | 0.075 | 0.074 | 0.074 |
| 5(H of C) | 0.072 | 0.067 | 0.067 |
| 6(H of C) | 0.061 | 0.089 | 0.074 |
| 7(S) | −0.114 | −0.115 | −0.127 |
| 8(C) | −0.181 | −0.182 | −0.173 |
| 9(H of S) | 0.089 | 0.063 | 0.089 |
| 10(H of C) | 0.075 | 0.074 | 0.073 |
| 11(H of C) | 0.072 | 0.071 | 0.073 |
| 12(H of C) | 0.061 | 0.085 | 0.065 |
| 13(S) | −0.114 | −0.127 | −0.116 |
| 14(C) | −0.181 | −0.173 | −0.182 |
| 15(H of S) | 0.089 | 0.073 | 0.085 |
| 16(H of C) | 0.075 | 0.065 | 0.074 |
| 17(H of C) | 0.072 | 0.073 | 0.071 |
| 18(H of C) | 0.061 | 0.089 | 0.063 |