• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
• /
• 제30권12호
• /
• pp.3039-3044
• /
• 2009

We report the first electric field dependence IR spectra of three cytosine tautomers solvated in helium nanodroplets. By using an electric field dependence on the three lowest energy tautomers of cytosine and ab initio calculations, we are able to measure the vibrational transition moment angles (VTMAs), specifically for the $NH_2$ symmetric stretch (SS) mode in this study, with more precision; thus we have reassigned the previous $NH_2$ (SS) VTMA of 74$^{\circ}$ for the C1 tautomer to 85$^{\circ}$, which the latter is in excellent agreement with the ab initio value. Nonplanarity of the three lowest energy tautomers of cytosine has been investigated by measuring the VTMA of each vibrational mode for the tautomers.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국건축시공학회 2021년도 봄 학술논문 발표대회
• /
• pp.91-92
• /
• 2021

In the present work, we simulated and explained the bonding of three alkanethiols - hexanethiol (HT), decanethiol (DT), and 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid (MDA) - with Fe(110) surface and Fe2 clusters using Density Functional Theory (DFT) to probe the corrosion inhibition mechanisms. The interaction energies computed from periodic DFT calculations successfully predicted the experimental inhibition performance. We have found strong covalent bond formation between S(thiol) and Fe-atoms in both approaches, further confirmed by the projected density of states and electron density difference. Besides, natural bond orbital (NBO) charge distribution showed that DT had stronger electron-donation and back-donation synergic interactions with Fe-atoms.

• 광물과 암석
• /
• 제34권2호
• /
• pp.121-131
• /
• 2021

마그네슘(magnesium; Mg)은 탄산염 광물이 침전된 과거의 환경 조건을 유추하기 위한 지화학 지시자로 활용되어오고 있다. Mg를 신뢰도 높은 지화학 지시자로 활용하기 위해서는 Mg의 화학종을 근거로 한 Mg의 광물 함유 기작이 반드시 규명되어야만 하며, 관련 실험 연구들은 주로 고해상도(high resolution)의 방사광가속기(synchrotron) X-선 흡수 분광(X-ray absorption spectroscopy; XAS) 기법을 통해 Mg의 화학종을 유추한다. 그러나, Mg가 미량 함유된 광물의 XAS 스펙트럼 해석의 높은 불확실성 때문에 화학종 유추가 어려운 경우가 많다. 양자역학 밀도범함수이론(density functional theory; DFT)은 결정구조에 대한 흡수 스펙트럼을 예측할 수 있기 때문에, XAS 스펙트럼 해석의 불확실성을 줄일 수 있다. 이번 논문에서는 DFT 기반의 제일원리 내각 준위 분광법(ab initio core-level spectroscopy method)을 통해 Mg 규산염 및 (수)산화광물에 대한 Mg K-edge 흡수 스펙트럼을 계산하여 Mg의 배위 결합 환경을 나타내는 구조 인자와의 상관관계를 분석하였다. 계산 결과, DFT 계산으로 얻은 Mg 규산염 및 (수)산화물의 이론 Mg K-edge 흡수 스펙트럼은 기존 XAS 실험으로 얻어진 스펙트럼의 주요 형태를 상당 부분 재현해낼 수 있었다. 계산으로 얻은 광물의 제일원리 Mg K-edge 흡수 스펙트럼의 흡수-끝(absorption edge)과 평균 Mg-O 결합거리 및 Mg 유효배위수를 비교 분석한 결과, 약한 양의 상관관계를 보여주었다. 이번 연구 결과는 DFT 계산이 다양한 광물 내 Mg의 화학종에 대한 표준 스펙트럼 세트를 제공할 수 있는 강력한 도구임을 보여주며, 추후 탄산염 광물에 함유된 정확한 Mg의 화학종을 동정하는데 DFT 계산이 큰 역할을 할 수 있음을 제시한다.

• Applied Science and Convergence Technology
• /
• 제23권5호
• /
• pp.273-278
• /
• 2014

Using ab initio calculations, the effects of uniaxial, biaxial, and hydrostatic strains on the magnetocrystalline anisotropy of $L1_0$-orderd FePt and CoPt alloys were systematically investigated. Interestingly, the rates and the signs of magnetocrystalline anisotropy changes of FePt and CoPt were determined by the directions and dimensions of strains. The calculation results are consistent with the previous experimental observations and are expected to provide directions to tailor magnetic properties of various types of $L1_0$-ordered FePt and CoPt systems.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
• /
• 제25권11호
• /
• pp.1657-1660
• /
• 2004

Several critical geometries associated with the rearrangement of $CH_3SNO_2\;to\;CH_3SONO$ are calculated with the density functional theory (DFT) method and compared with those of the ab initio molecular orbital methods. There are two probable pathways for this rearrangement, one involving the transition state of an oxygen migration and the other through the homolytic decomposition to radicals. The reaction barrier via the transition state is about 60 kcal/mol and the decomposition energy into radicals about 35 kcal/mol, suggesting that the reaction pathway via the homolytic cleavage to radical species is energetically favorable. Since even the homolytic cleavage requires large energies, the rearrangement reaction is unlikely without the aid of catalysts.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
• /
• 제33권6호
• /
• pp.1998-2004
• /
• 2012

We carried out DFT calculations for monohydrated sulfuric and phosphoric acids. We are interested in clusters which differ in orientation of hydrogen atoms only. Such molecular complexes are close in energy, since they lie in the vicinity of the global minimum energy structure on the flat potential energy surface. For monohydrated sulfuric acid we identified four different isomers. The monohydrated phosphoric acid forms five different conformers. These systems are difficult to study from the theoretical point of view, since binding energy differences in several cases are very small. For each structure, we calculated harmonic vibrational frequencies to be sure that if the optimized structures are at the local or global minima on the potential energy surface. The analysis of calculated -OH vibrational frequencies is useful in interpretation of infrared photodissociation spectroscopy experiments. We employed four different DFT functionals in our calculations. For each structure, we calculated binding energies, thermodynamic properties, and harmonic vibrational frequencies. Our analysis clearly shows that DFT approach is suitable for studying monohydrated inorganic acids with different hydrogen atom orientations. We carried out MP2 calculations with aug-cc-pVDZ basis set for both monohydrated acids. MP2 results serve as a benchmark for DFT calculations.

• EDISON SW 활용 경진대회 논문집
• /
• 제2회(2013년)
• /
• pp.214-216
• /
• 2013

The atomic and electronic properties of molybdenum disurfide ($MoS_2$) nanostructures are investigated through density functional theory (DFT) calculations. We find that the band gap is indirect (about 1.79 eV) and direct (about 1.84 eV) in GGA for 2-dimensional $MoS_2$ in our calculations. On the other hand, 1-dimensional armchair nanoribbons have semiconductor properties (band gap is about 0.11~0.28 eV), while 1-dimensional zigzag nanoribbons are metallic.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
• /
• 제27권7호
• /
• pp.1048-1052
• /
• 2006

Ab initio calculations of the structure, atomic charges and natural bond orbital (NBO) have been performed at HF/6-311G** and B3LYP/6-311G** levels for the title compound of dibenzothiazyl-disulfide. The calculated results show that the two nitrogen atoms have the biggest negative charges and they are the potential sites to react with the metallic ions, which make the title compound become a di-dentate ligand. Vibrational frequencies of the title compound have been obtained and compared with the experimental value and the comparison indicates that B3LYP/6-311G** level is better than HF/6-311G** level to predict the vibrational frequencies for the system studied here. For the title compound, electronic absorption spectra calculated by time?ependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) are more accurate than Hartree-Focksingle-excitation CI (CI-Singles) method. NBO analyses show that the electronic transitions are mainly derived from the contribution of bands $\pi\rightarrow\pi^{*}$. Thermodynamic calculated results show that the formation of the title compound from 2-mercaptobenzothiazole is a spontaneous process at room temperature with the change of free Gibbs being negative value.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
• /
• 제31권12호
• /
• pp.3718-3722
• /
• 2010

Theoretical investigations are carried out on the title reaction by means of ab-initio and DFT methods. The optimized geometries, frequencies and minimum energy path are obtained at UB3LYP/6-311G(d,p) level. Single point energy calculations are performed at MP2 and MP4 levels of theory. Energetics are further refined by calculating the energy of the species with a modified Gaussian-2 method, G2M(CC,MP2). The rate constant of the reaction is calculated using Canonical Transition State Theory (CTST) utilizing the ab-initio data obtained during the present study and is found to be $5.47{\times}10^{-12}\;cm^3\;molecule^{-1}s^{-1}$ at 298 K and 1 atm.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국진공학회 2011년도 제40회 동계학술대회 초록집
• /
• pp.61-61
• /
• 2011

Using ab initio calculations, we study the MgO(001) and Fe/MgO(001) surface phases and the effects of interface structure on the Fe/MgO magnetic anisotropy. The surface phase diagrams of MgO(001) and Fe/MgO(001) show that the most stable surface structures are either defect-free surface or the surfaces with oxygen vacancies in c($2{\times}1$) periodicity for the systems. By the formations of the oxygen vacancy rows on MgO(001) surface, the in-plane magnetic anisotropy energy of Fe overlayer is reduced while the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy energy is increased from 0.1 to 0.5 meV per Fe atom.