The Extremely Flat Torsional Potential Energy Surface of Oxalyl Chloride
Journal Article
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· Journal of Chemical Physics
The research described in this product was performed in part in the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a national scientific user facility sponsored by the Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research and located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The conformational behavior of oxalyl chloride has been investigated using ab initio Hartree–Fock (HF) and second-order Møller–Plesset (MP2) perturbation theories, and the coupled-cluster singles and doubles method appended with a perturbative inclusion of connected triple excitations [CCSD(T)]. Correlation consistent polarized valence quadruple-ζ (cc-pVQZ) and quintuple-ζ (cc-pV5Z) basis sets were used in this research. At the cc-pVQZ and cc-pV5Z HF levels, there is no stationary point corresponding to a stable gauche conformer. On the other hand, at the cc-pVQZ and cc-pV5Z MP2 levels and with the cc-pVQZ CCSD(T) method, the gauche conformer of oxalyl chloride was found at O=C-C=O dihedral angles of 81.9°, 79.4°, and 83.4°, respectively. At the cc-pV5Z MP2 level, the energy barrier from trans to gauche was predicted to be 0.74 kcal mol-1 and that from gauche to trans to be 0.09 kcal mol-1. Thus, the potential-energy surface along the OvC-CvO torsional mode is exceedingly flat. The existence of the gauche conformation is mainly due to the minimization of steric repulsion.
- Research Organization:
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (US), Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 921867
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Chemical Physics Journal Issue: 23 Vol. 122; ISSN 0021-9606
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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