Investigation of G4 theory for tansition metal thermochemistry.
An investigation of the performance of Gaussian-4 (G4) methods for the prediction of 3d transition metal thermochemistry is presented. Using the recently developed G3Large basis sets for atoms Sc-Zn, the G4 and G4(MP2) methods with scalar relativistic effects included are evaluated on a test set of 20 enthalpies of formation of transition metal-containing molecules. The G4(MP2) method is found to perform significantly better than the G4 method. The G4 method fails due to the poor convergence of the Moeller-Plesset perturbation theory at fourth-order in one case. The overall error for G4(MP2) of 2.84 kcal/mol is significantly larger than its previously reported performance for molecules containing main-group elements in the G3/05 test set. However, considering the relatively large uncertainties in the experimental enthalpies, the G4(MP2) method performs reasonably well. The performance of other composite methods based on G3 theory [G3(CCSD)//B3LYP and G3(MP2,CCSD)//B3LYP], as well as several density functional methods, are also presented in this paper. The results presented here will assist future development of composite model techniques suitable for use in transition metal-containing systems.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 960358
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/MSD/JA-63709; JPCHAX; TRN: US200923%%330
- Journal Information:
- J. Phys. Chem., Vol. 113, Issue 2009; ISSN 0022-3654
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- ENGLISH
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