Issue 7, 2011

Bound states of the positron with nitrile species with a configuration interaction multi-component molecular orbital approach

Abstract

Characteristic features of the positron binding structure of some nitrile (–CN functional group) species such as acetonitrile, cyanoacetylene, acrylonitrile, and propionitrile are discussed with the configuration interaction scheme of multi-component molecular orbital calculations. This method can take the electron–positron correlation contribution into account through single electronic–single positronic excitation configurations. Our PA value of acetonitrile with the electronic 6-31++G(2df,2pd) and positronic [15s15p3d2f1g] basis set is calculated as 4.96 mhartree, which agrees to within 25% with the recent experimental value of 6.6 mhartree by Danielson et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett., 2010, 104, 233201]. Our PA values of acrylonitrile and propionitrile (5.70 and 6.04 mhartree) are the largest among these species, which is consistent with the relatively large dipole moments of the latter two systems.

Graphical abstract: Bound states of the positron with nitrile species with a configuration interaction multi-component molecular orbital approach

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
31 Aug 2010
Accepted
05 Nov 2010
First published
10 Dec 2010

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011,13, 2701-2705

Bound states of the positron with nitrile species with a configuration interaction multi-component molecular orbital approach

M. Tachikawa, Y. Kita and R. J. Buenker, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, 13, 2701 DOI: 10.1039/C0CP01650K

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