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The Role Of Anharmonicity In Hydrogen-Bonded Systems: The Case Of Water Clusters, Berhane Temelso, George Shields
The Role Of Anharmonicity In Hydrogen-Bonded Systems: The Case Of Water Clusters, Berhane Temelso, George Shields
Berhane Temelso
The nature of vibrational anharmonicity has been examined for the case of small water clusters using second-order vibrational perturbation theory (VPT2) applied on second-order Møller–Plesset perturbation theory (MP2) potential energy surfaces. Using a training set of 16 water clusters (H2O)n=2–6,8,9 with a total of 723 vibrational modes, we determined scaling factors that map the harmonic frequencies onto anharmonic ones. The intermolecular modes were found to be substantially more anharmonic than intramolecular bending and stretching modes. Due to the varying levels of anharmonicity of the intermolecular and intramolecular modes, different frequency scaling factors for each region were necessary to achieve the …