June 21, 2015
Journal Article

An accurate and efficient computational protocol for obtaining the Complete Basis Set limits of the binding energies of water clusters at the MP2 and CCSD(T) levels of theory: Application to (H2O)m, m=2-6, 8, 11, 16 and 17

Abstract

We report MP2 and CCSD(T) binding energies with basis sets up to pentuple zeta quality for the m = 2-6, 8 clusters. Or best CCSD(T)/CBS estimates are -4.99 kcal/mol (dimer), -15.77 kcal/mol (trimer), -27.39 kcal/mol (tetramer), -35.9 ± 0.3 kcal/mol (pentamer), -46.2 ± 0.3 kcal/mol (prism hexamer), -45.9 ± 0.3 kcal/mol (cage hexamer), -45.4 ± 0.3 kcal/mol (book hexamer), -44.3 ± 0.3 kcal/mol (ring hexamer), -73.0 ± 0.5 kcal/mol (D2d octamer) and -72.9 ± 0.5 kcal/mol (S4 octamer). We have found that the percentage of both the uncorrected (??!) and BSSE-corrected (??!!") binding energies recovered with respect to the CBS limit falls into a narrow range for each basis set for all clusters and in addition this range was found to decrease upon increasing the basis set. Relatively accurate estimates (within

Revised: July 23, 2015 | Published: June 21, 2015

Citation

Miliordos E., and S.S. Xantheas. 2015. An accurate and efficient computational protocol for obtaining the Complete Basis Set limits of the binding energies of water clusters at the MP2 and CCSD(T) levels of theory: Application to (H2O)m, m=2-6, 8, 11, 16 and 17. Journal of Chemical Physics 142, no. 23:234303. PNNL-SA-107534. doi:10.1063/1.4922262