Date of Award
2013
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry (PhD)
College, School or Department Name
Department of Chemistry
Advisor
Marta Wloch
Co-Advisor
Loredana Valenzano
Abstract
The main goal of the research presented in this work is to provide some important insights about computational modeling of open-shell species. Such projects are: the investigation of the size-extensivity error in Equation-of-Motion Coupled Cluster methods, the analysis of the Long-Range corrected scheme in predicting UV-Vis spectra of Cu(II) complexes with the 4-imidazole acetate and its ethylated derivative, and the exploration of the importance of choosing a proper basis set for the description of systems such as the lithium monoxide anion. The most significant findings of this research are: (i) The contribution of the left operator to the size-extensivity error of the CR-EOMCC(2,3) approach, (ii) The cause of d-d shifts when varying the range-separation parameter and the amount of the exact exchange arising from the imbalanced treatment of localized vs. delocalized orbitals via the "tuned" CAM-B3LYP* functional, (iii) The proper acidity trend of the first-row hydrides and their lithiated analogs that may be reversed if the basis sets are not correctly selected.
Recommended Citation
Tyminska, Nina, "Modern Computational Chemistry Methods for Prediction of Ground- and Excited-State Properties in Open-Shell Systems", Dissertation, Michigan Technological University, 2013.