Theoretical approach to the structure and hyperfine coupling constants of nonrigid radicals: the case of dihydronitrosyl radical

Autor: Vincenzo Barone, André Grand, Camilla Minichino, Robert Subra
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 97:6355-6361
ISSN: 1541-5740
0022-3654
DOI: 10.1021/j100126a008
Popis: The structure and EPR parameters of dihydronitrosyl radical H 2 NO have been investigated by highly correlated ab-initio methods. The relative stabilities of planar and pyramidal structures have been analyzed in detail, taking also into account the effect of small-amplitude vibrations perpendicular to the inversion motion. Vibrational averaging of hyperfine coupling constants has been computed by a quantum-mechanical treatment based on the vibrational adiabatic zero curvature approximation. The general picture emerging from this study, substantiated by several checks, consists in a quasi-planar molecule with a nearly free inversion motion for out-of-plane angles as large as 30 o
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