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Title: Beyond chemical accuracy in the heavy p-block: The first ionization potentials and electron affinities of Ga-Kr, In-Xe, and Tl-Rn

Journal Article · · Journal of Chemical Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5110174 · OSTI ID:1526482

A relativistic coupled-cluster version of the Feller-Peterson-Dixon (FPD) composite method was previously used to accurately calculate the first ionization potentials (IP) and electron affinities (EAs) of the post-d, p-block elements Ga–Rn. Complete basis set (CBS) extrapolations including outer-core correlation at the CCSD(T) level of theory were combined with contributions from higher order electron correlation up to CCSDTQ, quantum electrodynamic effects (Lamb shift), and spin-orbit (SO) coupling including the Gaunt contribution. Several methods for including SO were investigated, in which all involved the four-component (4c) Dirac-Coulomb (DC) Hamiltonian. Here, the treatment of SO coupling was the contribution that limited the final accuracy of the present results. In the cases where 4c-DC-CCSD(T) could be reliably used for the SO contributions, the final composite IPs and EAs agreed with the available experimental values to within an unsigned average error of just 0.16 and 0.20 kcal/mol, respectively. In all cases the final IPs and EAs were within 1 kcal/mol of the available experimental values, except for the EAs of the group 13 elements (Ga, In, Tl), where the currently accepted experimental values appear to be too large by as much as 4 kcal/mol. The values predicted in this work, which have estimated uncertainties of ±0.5 kcal/mol, are 5.25 (Ga), 7.69 (In), and 7.39 (Tl) kcal/mol. For the EAs of Po and At, which do not have experimental values, the current calculations predict values of 34.2 and 55.8 kcal/mol with estimated uncertainties of ±0.6 and ±0.3 kcal/mol, respectively.

Research Organization:
Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0008501
OSTI ID:
1526482
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1532585; OSTI ID: 1657545
Journal Information:
Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 151, Issue 2; ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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