Molecular Structure and TD-DFT Study of the Xylene Isomers

Year 2019, Volume: 32 Issue: 1, 300 - 308, 01.03.2019

Abdullah Kepceoglu , Yasemin Gundogdu , Omer Derelı , Hamdi Sukur Kılıc

Abstract

In this work, we have
investigated the xylene isomers in concepts of vertical and
adiabatic ionization energy parameters
and molecular orbital (HOMO-1, HOMO/SOMO, LUMO, LUMO+1) energies of the neutrals
and singly charged cation radicals.  As a first step of the calculations, conformational analysis has been performed for all isomers using the semi-empirical method with PM3 core type
Hamiltonian.  Geometry optimization and frequency
calculations were performed by using Density Functional Theory (DFT) with Becke,
three-parameter, Lee-Yang-Parr (B3LYP) exchange-correlation functional and
6-311++G(d,p) basis sets.  UV-Vis electronic
spectra of the neutral xylene isomers were calculated by using the TD-DFT method with cam-B3LYP functional and 6-311++G(2d,2p) basis set.

Keywords

TD-DFT, Conformational Analysis, UV-Vis, Xylene

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