Electric field gradients of transition metal complexes from density functional theory : assessment of functionals, geometries and basis sets
Abstract
Electric field gradients (EFGs) were computed for the first-row transition metal nuclei in Cr(C6H6)(CO)(3), MnO3F, Mn(CO)(5)H, MnCp(CO)(3), Co(CO)(4)H, Co(CO)(3)(NO) and VCp(CO)(4), for which experimental gas-phase data (in form of nuclear quadrupole coupling constants) are available from microwave spectroscopy. A variety of exchange-correlation functionals were assessed, among which range-separated hybrids (such as CAM-B3LYP or LC-omega PBE) perform best, followed by global hybrids (such as B3LYP and PBE0) and gradient-corrected functionals (such as BP86). While large basis sets are required on the metal atom for converged EFGs, smaller basis sets can be employed on the ligands. In most cases, EFGs show little sensitivity toward the geometrical parameters.
Citation
Bjornsson , R & Buehl , M 2010 , ' Electric field gradients of transition metal complexes from density functional theory : assessment of functionals, geometries and basis sets ' , Dalton Transactions , vol. 39 , no. 22 , pp. 5319-5324 . https://doi.org/10.1039/c001017k
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Dalton Transactions
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1477-9226Type
Journal article
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This is the author's revised version after peer review, embargoed for 12 months from date of acceptance. Published version (c)2010 The Royal Society of Chemistry is available from www.rsc.org/dalton
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