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DOE OSTI2022

Density functional theory of water with the machine-learned DM21 functional

The delicate interplay between functional-driven and density-driven errors in density functional theory (DFT) has hindered traditional density functional approximations (DFAs) from providing an accurate description of water for over 30 years. Recently, the deep-learned DeepMind 21 (DM21) functional has been shown to overcome the limitations of traditional DFAs as it is free of delocalization error. To determine if DM21 can enable a molecular-level description of the physical properties of aqueous systems within Kohn–Sham DFT, we assess the accuracy of the DM21 functional for neutral, protonated, and deprotonated water clusters. Furthermore, we find that the ability of DM21 to accurately predict the energetics of aqueous clusters varies significantly with cluster size. Additionally, we introduce the many-body MB-DM21 potential derived from DM21 data within the many-body expansion of the energy and use it in simulations of liquid water as a function of temperature at ambient pressure. We find that size-dependent functional-driven errors identified in the analysis of the energetics of small clusters calculated with the DM21 functional result in the MB-DM21 potential systematically overestimating the hydrogen-bond strength and, consequently, predicting a more ice-like local structure of water at room temperature.

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DOE OSTI2022

Gaussian approximation of dispersion potentials for efficient featurization and machine-learning predictions of metal–organic frameworks

Energy-related descriptors in machine learning are a promising strategy to predict adsorption properties of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) in the low-pressure regime. Interactions between hosts and guests in these systems are typically expressed as a sum of dispersion and electrostatic potentials. The energy landscape of dispersion potentials plays a crucial role in defining Henry’s constants for simple probe molecules in MOFs. To incorporate more information about this energy landscape, we introduce the Gaussian-approximated Lennard-Jones (GALJ) potential, which fits pairwise Lennard-Jones potentials with multiple Gaussians by varying their heights and widths. The GALJ approach is capable of replicating information that can be obtained from the original LJ potentials and enables efficient development of Gaussian integral (GI) descriptors that account for spatial correlations in the dispersion energy environment. GI descriptors would be computationally inconvenient to compute using the usual direct evaluation of the dispersion potential energy surface. Here, we show that these new GI descriptors lead to improvement in ML predictions of Henry’s constants for a diverse set of adsorbates in MOFs compared to previous approaches to this task.

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DOE OSTI2022

Symmetry-resolved CO desorption and oxidation dynamics on O/Ru(0001) probed at the C K-edge by ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy

In this work, we report on carbon monoxide desorption and oxidation induced by 400 nm femtosecond laser excitation on the O/Ru(0001) surface probed by time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy (TR-XAS) at the carbon K-edge. The experiments were performed under constant background pressures of CO (6x10 -8 Torr) and O 2 (3x10 -8 Torr). Under these conditions, we detect two transient CO species with narrow 2π* peaks, suggesting little 2π* interaction with the surface. Based on polarization measurements, we find that these two species have opposing orientations: (1) CO favoring a more perpendicular orientation and (2) CO favoring a more parallel orientation with respect to the surface. We also directly detect gas-phase CO 2 using a mass spectrometer and observe weak signatures of bent adsorbed CO 2 at slightly higher X-ray energies than the 2π* region. These results are compared to previously reported TR-XAS results at the O K-edge where the CO background pressure was three times lower (2x10 -8 Torr) while maintaining the same O 2 pressure. At the lower CO pressure, in the CO 2π* region, we observed adsorbed CO and a distribution of OC-O bond lengths close to the CO oxidation transition state, with little indication of gas-like CO. The shift towards 'gas-like' CO species may be explained by the higher CO exposure, which blocks O adsorption, decreasing O coverage and increasing CO coverage. These effects decrease the CO desorption barrier through dipole-dipole interaction, while simultaneously increasing the CO oxidation barrier.

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DOE OSTI2022

Chemical reactivity under collective vibrational strong coupling

Recent experiments of chemical reactions in optical cavities have shown great promise to alter and steer chemical reactions, but still remain poorly understood theoretically. In particular, the origin of resonant effects between the cavity and certain vibrational modes in the collective limit is still subject to active research. In this paper, we study the unimolecular dissociation reactions of many molecules, collectively interacting with an infrared cavity mode, through their vibrational dipole moment. We find that the reaction rate can slow down by increasing the number of aligned molecules, if the cavity mode is resonant with a vibrational mode of the molecules. We also discover a simple scaling relation that scales with the collective Rabi splitting, to estimate the onset of reaction rate modification by collective vibrational strong coupling and numerically demonstrate these effects for up to 10 4 molecules.

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DOE OSTI2022

Molecular-based analysis of nanoparticle solvation: Classical density functional approach

Proper statistical mechanics understanding of nanoparticle solvation processes requires an accurate description of the molecular structure of the solvent. Achieving this goal with standard molecular dynamics (MD) simulation methods is challenging due to large length scales. An alternative approach to this problem can be formulated using classical density functional theory (cDFT), where a full configurational description of the positions of all the atoms is replaced by collective atomic site densities in the molecule. Using an example of the negatively charged silica-like system in an aqueous polar environment represented by a two-site water model, we demonstrate here that cDFT can reproduce MD data at a fraction of the computational cost. An important implication of this result is the ability to understand how the solvent molecular features may affect the system’s properties at the macroscopic scale. A concrete example highlighted in this work is the analysis of nanoparticle interactions with sizes of up to 100 nm in diameter.

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DOE OSTI2024

Descriptors of water aggregation

For this work, we rely on a total of 23 (cluster size, 8 structural, and 14 connectivity) descriptors to investigate structural patterns and connectivity motifs associated with water cluster aggregation. In addition to the cluster size n (number of molecules), the 8 structural descriptors can be further categorized into (i) one-body (intramolecular): covalent OH bond length (r OH ) and HOH bond angle (θ HOH ), (ii) two-body: OO distance (r OO ), OHO angle (θ OHO ), and HOOX dihedral angle ($\phi$ HOOX ), where X lies on the bisector of the HOH angle, (iii) three-body: OOO angle (θ OOO ), and (iv) many-body: modified tetrahedral order parameter (q) to account for two-, three-, four-, five-coordinated molecules (q m , m = 2, 3, 4, 5) and radius of gyration (R g ). The 14 connectivity descriptors are all many-body in nature and consist of the AD, AAD, ADD, AADD, AAAD, AAADD adjacencies [number of hydrogen bonds accepted (A) and donated (D) by each water molecule], Wiener index, Average Shortest Path Length, hydrogen bond saturation (% HB), and number of non-short-circuited three-membered cycles, four-membered cycles, five-membered cycles, six-membered cycles, and seven-membered cycles. We mined a previously reported database of 4 948 959 water cluster minima for (H 2 O) n , n = 3–25 to analyze the evolution and correlation of these descriptors for the clusters within 5 kcal/mol of the putative minima. It was found that r OH and % HB correlated strongly with cluster size n, which was identified as the strongest predictor of energetic stability. Marked changes in the adjacencies and cycle count were observed, lending insight into changes in the hydrogen bond network upon aggregation. A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was employed to identify descriptor dependencies and group clusters into specific structural patterns across different cluster sizes. The results of this study inform our understanding of how water clusters evolve in size and what appropriate descriptors of their structural and connectivity patterns are with respect to system size, stability, and similarity. The approach described in this study is general and can be easily extended to other hydrogen-bonded systems.

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DOE OSTI2024

Observation of a super-tetrahedral cluster of acetonitrile-solvated dodecaborate dianion via dihydrogen bonding

We launched a combined negative ion photoelectron spectroscopy and multiscale theoretical investigation on the geometric and electronic structures of a series of acetonitrile-solvated dodecaborate clusters, i.e., B 12 H 12 2- ·nCH 3 CN (n = 1–4). The electron binding energies of B 12 H 12 2- ·nCH 3 CN are observed to increase with cluster size, suggesting their enhanced electronic stability. B3LYP-D3(BJ)/ma-def2-TZVP geometry optimizations indicate each acetonitrile molecule binds to B 12 H 12 2- via a threefold dihydrogen bond (DHB) B3–H3 ⋮⋮⋮ H3C–CN unit, in which three adjacent nucleophilic H atoms in B 12 H 12 2- interact with the three methyl hydrogens of acetonitrile. The structural evolution from n = 1 to 4 can be rationalized by the surface charge redistributions through the restrained electrostatic potential analysis. Notably, a super-tetrahedral cluster of B 12 H 12 2- solvated by four acetonitrile molecules with 12 DHBs is observed. The post-Hartree–Fock domain-based local pair natural orbital- coupled cluster singles, doubles, and perturbative triples [DLPNO-CCSD(T)] calculated vertical detachment energies agree well with the experimental measurements, confirming the identified isomers as the most stable ones. Furthermore, the nature and strength of the intermolecular interactions between B 12 H 12 2- and CH 3 CN are revealed by the quantum theory of atoms-in-molecules and the energy decomposition analysis. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations are conducted at various temperatures to reveal the great kinetic and thermodynamic stabilities of the selected B 12 H 12 2- ·CH 3 CN cluster. The binding motif in B 12 H 12 2- ·CH 3 CN is largely retained for the whole halogenated series B 12 X 12 2- ·CH 3 CN (X = F–I). This study provides a molecular-level understanding of structural evolution for acetonitrile-solvated dodecaborate clusters and a fresh view by examining acetonitrile as a real hydrogen bond (HB) donor to form strong HB interactions.

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DOE OSTI2024

Deprotonated sulfamic acid and its homodimers: Does sulfamic acid adopt zwitterion during cluster growth?

Here we present a joint experimental and computational study on the geometric and electronic structures of deprotonated sulfamic acid (SA) clusters [(SA) n –H] – (n = 1, 2) employing negative ion photoelectron spectroscopy and high-level ab initio calculations. The photoelectron spectra provide the vertical/adiabatic detachment energy (VDE/ADE) of the sulfamate anion (SM – ) H 2 N•SO 3 – at 4.85 ± 0.05 and 4.58 ± 0.08 eV, respectively, and the VDE and ADE of the SM – •SA dimer at 6.41 ± 0.05 and 5.87 ± 0.08 eV, respectively. The significantly increased electron binding energies of the dimer confirm the enhanced electronic stability upon the addition of one SA molecule. The CCSD(T)-predicted VDEs/ADEs agree excellently with the experimental data, confirming the identified structures as the most stable ones. Two types of dimer isomers possessing different hydrogen bonding (HB) motifs are identified, corresponding to SM – binding to a zwitterionic SA (SM – •SA z ) and a canonical SA (SM – •SA c ), respectively. Two N–H$\cdots$O HBs and one superior O–H$\cdots$O HB are formed in the lowest-lying SM – •SA c , while SM – •SA z has three moderate N–H$\cdots$O HBs, with the former being 4.71 kcal/mol more stable. Further theoretical analyses reveal that the binding strength advantage of SM – •SA c over SM – •SA z arises from its significant contributions of orbital interactions between fragments, illustrating that sulfamate strongly interacts with its parent SA acid and preferably chooses the canonical SA in the subsequent cluster formations. Given the prominent presence of SA, this study provides the first evidence that the canonical dimer model of sulfamic acid should exist as a superior configuration during cluster growth.

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DOE OSTI2025

Collision integrals within the Chapman–Enskog theory for a generalized Lennard-Jones potential

Here we report the values of the collision integrals, needed for the calculation of the macroscopic transport properties such as viscosity (η) and diffusion coefficient (D) of gases within the Chapman–Enskog kinetic gas theory, for a generalized Lennard-Jones potential (gLJ), a more general potential with an adjustable long range 1/r dependence that can describe a wide range of intermolecular interactions.

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DOE OSTI2025

Stockmayer fluid simulations for viscosity and glass transition temperature of ionic liquids

We develop a Stockmayer fluid model for molecular dynamics simulations of ionic liquids that captures molecular polarization, ionic conductivity, viscosity, and glass transition temperature, using ethylammonium nitrate (EAN) as an example. The ions in EAN are treated as spheres interacting via the Lennard-Jones potential with an embedded point charge and a permanent dipole moment. We show that our simulation results for EAN are consistent with experimental data and then explore the effects of the molecular parameters on the viscosity of ionic liquids. Our results indicate that viscosity monotonically increases with ionic charge and dipole moment but non-monotonically changes with ionic diameter (or molar volume). This non-monotonic trend arises from the competition among the electrostatic interactions, molecular packing, and size asymmetry between the cation and anion. In conclusion, our model also shows that long-lived ion pairs result in higher viscosities.

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DOE OSTI2018

Determining Eigenfrequencies and Homogeneous Widths of Lines of Intermolecular Vibrations in Water and in Aqueous Solutions of Hydrogen Peroxide Using Raman Spectroscopy

We have examined low-frequency Raman spectra of intermolecular vibrations of weak aqueous solutions of hydrogen peroxide and water. The differences between the observed Raman frequencies and the data from the literature on the IR-absorption frequencies of the same vibrations, as well as the interrelations between the frequencies and the widths of Lorentzian contours that approximate the vibrational spectra of the dynamic susceptibility, have been discussed. Based on a model of free damped vibrations of a classical oscillator with an inhomogeneous broadening, we have explained these effects for the first time. The homogeneous line widths and the damping times of the observed intermolecular vibrations have been determined. The eigenfrequencies of these vibrations have been calculated, and they have been shown to agree well with the data from the literature on the frequencies of IR absorption of water. We have shown that these parameters of intermolecular vibrations for water and for aqueous solutions of hydrogen peroxide differ from each other.

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DOE OSTI2017

Bromination of 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydro-1,10-phenanthroline: Synthesis and Crystal Structure of 6-Bromo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1,10-phenanthroline and Its Bromide Salt

The bromination reaction of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1,10-phenanthroline (tphen) is investigated, which can afford a new heterocyclic compound, namely 6-bromo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1,10-phenanthroline (1). The bromide salt of 1, i.e., 1 · (1H) · Br (2), can be isolated from the bromination system. The accurate structures of both compounds are confirmed and investigated by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The result proves that the bromination reaction of tphen mainly affords its C6-substituted product. In compounds 1 and 2, the N−H···Br hydrogen bonds play an important role in intermolecular connection. Crystal data of 1: Monoclinic system, sp. gr. Pc, a = 4.6628(8) Å, b = 8.7980(15) Å, c = 13.1347(19) Å, β = 101.342(5)°, Z = 2, V = 528.31(15) Å{sup 3}. Crystal data of 2: Monoclinic system, sp. gr. P2{sub 1}/n, a = 16.6171(16) Å, b = 7.8323(8) Å, c = 18.6972(18) Å, β = 113.597(2)°, Z = 4, V = 2230.0(4) Å{sup 3}.

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DOE OSTI2017

Crystal and Molecular Structure of 3,5-Diphenyl-4,5-dihydro-2-phenylcarboxamide-1H-pyrazole

Crystal structure of the title compound C{sub 22}H{sub 19}N{sub 3}O is determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction (sp. gr. P2{sub 1}/c, Z = 4). The molecule as a whole, is not planar: phenyl cycles are rotated relative to the plane of pyrazole ring. N−H···N intramolecular hydrogen bond forms five-membered ring fused to pyrazole ring. There are also intramolecular C−H···O and C−H···π interactions. Intermolecular C−H···O hydrogen bond links the molecules into a C(7) chain along the a axis. The crystal structure is stabilized also by C–H···π and π···π intermolecular hydrogen bonds.

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DOE OSTI2017

X-ray and Theoretical Studies of 2-((5-Amino-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)thio)-1-phenylethanone

The crystal structure of 2-((5-amino-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)thio)-1-phenylethanone was determined by X-ray diffraction method. The compound crystallizes in orthorhombic crystal system, sp. gr. Pbca. The atoms that constitute thiadiazole and phenyl rings do not form any significant deviation from the ring planes. Compound has two intermolecular N–H···N hydrogen bonds and one C–H···π interaction. Using DFT/B3LYP method with 6-31G(d), 6-311G(d), 6-311G(d, p), and 6-311++G(d, p) basis sets, the molecular geometry of the compound was optimised. Bond lenghts, bond angles, torsion angles, dihedral angles, and HOMO–LUMO were calculated from the optimised geometry of the compound. The results obtained by X-ray diffraction method were compared with the results obtained through four different basis sets. Total energy of the molecule was calculated for four different basis sets.

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DOE OSTI2017

Structure of (2E)-Ethyl 2-((4-(cyanomethoxy)benzylidene)hydrazono)-3,4-dimethyl-2,3-dihydrothiazole-5-carboxylate Studied by X-ray and DFT Calculations

The molecular structure of (2E)-ethyl 2-((4-(cyanomethoxy)benzylidene)hydrazono)-3,4-dimethyl-2,3-dihydrothiazole-5-carboxylate was determined using X-ray diffraction. The crystals are triclinic: sp. gr. P1; Z = 2; the unit cell parameters a = 8.4747(7) Å, b = 8.9382(8) Å, c = 11.9913(10) Å. The title compound has two C–H···O type intramolecular hydrogen bonds, one C–H···O and one C–H···N type intermolecular hydrogen bonds. For theoretical calculations, the molecular structure was investigated by DFT/B3LYP method with 6-311G(d) and 6-311G(d, p) basis sets. The calculated and experumental results (bond lenghts, bond angles, and dihedral angles) were compared with each other. Total energy, dipole moment, and mulliken atomic charges were calculated using two different basis sets.

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DOE OSTI2019

Effect of the Degree of Overcooling on Relaxation of the Domain Structure of Triglycine Sulphate

The formation and evolution of the domain structure in the vicinity of the Curie point is studied in triglycine sulfate crystals subjected to fast cooling T{sub C}. We derive an analytical expression for time dependence of the mean characteristic domain size. This expression enable us to investigate the process of enlargement of domain structure through all stages of its relaxation into a state of thermodynamic equilibrium. The model predicts a root-square behavior of the mean domain size, which agrees well with available experimental data. The rate of enlargement of the domain structure is shown to depend on the degree of overcooling. The time dependence of the mean domain size obtained in this study enables us to determine the radius of intermolecular interactions in the crystals under study.

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DOE OSTI2019

Development of an Advanced Force Field for Water Using Variational Energy Decomposition Analysis

Given the piecewise approach to modeling intermolecular interactions for force fields, they can be difficult to parametrize since they are fit to data like total energies that only indirectly connect to their separable functional forms. Furthermore, by neglecting certain types of molecular interactions such as charge penetration and charge transfer, most classical force fields must rely on, but do not always demonstrate, how cancellation of errors occurs among the remaining molecular interactions accounted for such as exchange repulsion, electrostatics, and polarization. In this work we present the first generation of the (many-body) MB-UCB force field that explicitly accounts for the decomposed molecular interactions commensurate with a variational energy decomposition analysis, including charge transfer, with force field design choices that reduce the computational expense of the MB-UCB potential while remaining accurate. We optimize parameters using only a single water molecule and water cluster data up through pentamers, with no fitting to condensed phase data, and we demonstrate that high accuracy is maintained when the force field is subsequently validated against conformational energies of larger water cluster data sets, radial distribution functions of the liquid phase, and the temperature dependence of thermodynamic and transport water properties. Finally, we conclude that MB-UCB is comparable in performance to MB-Pol but is less expensive and more transferable by eliminating the need to represent short-ranged interactions through large parameter fits to high order polynomials.

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DOE OSTI2023

Shedding Light on the Vibrational Signatures in Halogen‐Bonded Graphitic Carbon Nitride Building Blocks

Abstract The relative contributions of halogen and hydrogen bonding to the interaction between graphitic carbon nitride monomers and halogen bond (XB) donors containing C−X and C≡C bonds were evaluated using computational vibrational spectroscopy. Conventional probes into select vibrational stretching frequencies can often lead to disconnected results. To elucidate this behavior, local mode analyses were performed on the XB donors and complexes identified previously at the M06‐2X/aVDZ‐PP level of theory. Due to coupling between low and high energy C−X vibrations, the C≡C stretch is deemed a better candidate when analyzing XB complex properties or detecting XB formation. The local force constants support this conclusion, as the C≡C values correlate much better with the σ ‐hole magnitude than their C−X counterparts. The intermolecular local stretching force constants were also assessed, and it was found that attractive forces other than halogen bonding play a supporting role in complex formation.

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