Relativistic effective core potentials correlation consistent basis sets

Correlation Consistent Basis Sets with Relativistic Effective Core Potentials The Transition Metal Elements Y and Hg... 

The present work represents a preliminary attempt to incorporate many of these strategies in conjunction with the use of small-core relativistic effective core potentials for obtaining compact series of correlation consistent basis sets... 

The basis sets used in the reactions including F and Cl are the augmented correlation consistent polarized valence double zeta (aug-cc-pVDZ) sets [16]. In the reactions including Br and I, the relativistic effective core potential (ECP) due to Stevens et al. [17,18] and their associated basis sets were used for Br and I, and the cc-pVDZ set for H. The basis sets of Br and I were augmented by adding a d polarization function with an exponent of 0.389 (Br) / 0.266 (I) and sp diffuse functions with an exponent 0.03574 (Br) / 0.03007 (I). The diffuse p polarization function of the aug-cc-pVDZ set of H was omitted for consis-... 

As an alternative to all-electron calculations using either 4-component or DKH calculations, relativistic pseudopotentials (PPs) or effective core potentials (ECPs) provide a very convenient route to accurately including relativistic effects into electronic structure calculations [38,39]. Since PPs replace the low-lying core electrons, their use also results in smaller basis sets. Correlation consistent basis sets... 

Martin, J.M.L., Sundermann, A. Correlation consistent valence basis sets for use with the Stuttgart-Dresden-Bonn relativistic effective core potentials The atoms Ga-Kr and In-Xe, J. Chem. Phys. 2001,114,3408. 

Other, scalar relativistic effects are usually minor. Among them, the most important is the contraction of s-orbitals caused by the increase in electron mass due to high velocity near the nucleus. Except in the most careful work, such effects are modeled using relativistic effective core potentials (ECPs), also called core pseudopotentials [76]. When an ECP is used, the corresponding valence basis set should be used for the remaining electrons. A small-core ECP, in which fewer electrons are replaced by the effective potential, is a weaker approximation and therefore more reliable than the corresponding large-core ECP. The selection of basis sets to accompany ECPs is more restricted than the selection of all-electron basis sets, but appropriate correlation-consistent basis sets are available for heavy p-block elements [77-80]. 

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Pseudopotentials (PP) were originally proposed to reduce the computational cost for the heavy atoms with the replacement of the core orbitals by an effective potential. Modern pseudopotentials implicitly include relativistic effects by means of adjustment to quasi-relativistic Har-tree-Fock or Dirac-Hartree-Fock orbital energies and densities [35]. In the present research, we adopted Peterson s correlation-consistent cc-pVnZ-PP (n — D, T, Q, 5) basis sets [23] with the corresponding relativistic pseudopotential for the Br atom. The corresponding cc-pVnZ (n = D, T, Q, 5) basis sets were used for the O and H atoms. The optimized geometries and relative energies for the stationary points are reported in Table 1 and Fig. 3, and the harmonic vibrational frequencies and zero-point vibrational energies are reported in Table 4. 

The ionization potentials and electron affinities of the atoms H, C, N, O and F have been computed by means of coupled-cluster methods using doubly augmented correlation-consistent one-electron basis sets in conjunction with explicitly correlated Slater-type geminals. Excitations up to the level of connected quintuples have been accounted for, and all orbitals in the core and valence shells have been correlated. Relativistic effects (spin-orbit as well as scalar) and diagonal Born-Oppenheimer corrections have been included. 

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