Issue 16, 2011

The predicted spectrum of the hypermetallic molecule MgOMg

Abstract

The present study of MgOMg is a continuation of our theoretical work on Group 2 M2O hypermetallic oxides. Previous ab initio calculations have shown that MgOMg has a linear 1Σ+g ground electronic state and a very low lying first excited triplet electronic state that is also linear; the triplet state has 3Σ+u symmetry. No gas phase spectrum of this molecule has been assigned, and here we simulate the infrared absorption spectrum for both states. We calculate the three-dimensional potential energy surface, and the electric dipole moment surfaces, of each of the two states using a multireference configuration interaction (MRCISD) approach based on full-valence complete active space self-consistent field (FV-CASSCF) wavefunctions with a cc-pCVQZ basis set. A variational MORBID calculation using our potential energy and dipole moment surfaces is performed to determine rovibrational term values and to simulate the infrared absorption spectrum of the two states. We also calculate the dipole polarizability of both states at their equilibrium geometry in order to assist in the interpretation of future beam deflection experiments. Finally, in order to assist in the analysis of the electronic spectrum, we calculate the vertical excitation energies, and electric dipole transition matrix elements, for six excited singlet states and five excited triplet states using the state-average full valence CASSCF-MRCISD/aug-cc-pCVQZ procedure.

Graphical abstract: The predicted spectrum of the hypermetallic molecule MgOMg

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
29 Dec 2010
Accepted
24 Feb 2011
First published
22 Mar 2011

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011,13, 7546-7553

The predicted spectrum of the hypermetallic molecule MgOMg

B. Ostojić, P. R. Bunker, P. Schwerdtfeger, B. Assadollahzadeh and P. Jensen, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, 13, 7546 DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02996C

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