Assessment of hybrid, meta-hybrid-GGA, and long-range corrected density functionals for the estimation of enthalpies of formation, barrier heights, and ionisation potentials of selected C1-C5 oxygenates

作者：El Nahas Ahmed M^*; Simmie John M; Mangood Ahmed H; Hirao Kimihiko; Song Jong Won; Watson Mark A; Taketsugu Tetsuya; Koga Nobuaki

来源：Molecular Physics, 2015, 113(13-14): 1630-1635.

DOI：10.1080/00268976.2014.1002552

• ionisation potential
• energy barrier
• enthalpies of formation
• oxygenates
• DFT

The enthalpies of formation for some selected oxygenates have been calculated by the atomisation energy approach using B3LYP, BHandHLYP, MPW3LYP, MPW1K, MPWB1K, BB1K, MPW1B95, BMK, and long-range corrected (LC-omega PBE, LC-BOP, LCgau-BOP, LC-BOP12, LCgau-B97) density functionals, as well as the composite CBS-QB3 method. Compared with experiment, BMK, LC-omega PBE, LCgau-BOP, LC-BOP12, LCgau-B97, MPW195, MPW3LYP functionals and CBS-QB3 give root mean square errors (RMSE) in enthalpies of formation no greater than 4 kcal/mol, whilst MPW1K and BHandHLYP show much worse performance (RMSE of 20-40 kcal/mol). The B3LYP, MPWB1K, and BB1K results fall between the two extremes. Energy barriers for the dominant paths in the unimolecular decomposition of simple esters (HCO2CH3, C2H5CO2C2H5), C1-C3 acids, and 1-butanol are reproduced well by CBS-QB3, BMK, BB1K, LCgau-B97, and PW1B95 (RMSE = 1-2 kcal/mol), while other LC methods (LC-omega PBE, LC-BOP, LCgau-BOP, and LC-BOP12) show a deviation of up to 4 kcal/mol. For the ionisation potentials, calculated from Koopman's theorem, all of the investigated LC-methods give good results compared with other density functional theory functionals with a maximum deviation of 0.4 eV, except for LCgau-B97, which has an RMSE of 0.7 eV.

• 出版日期2015-7-18
• 单位RIKEN