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American Chemical Society, The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 43(115), p. 12034-12046, 2011

DOI: 10.1021/jp2069489

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Benchmark Structures and Binding Energies of Small Water Clusters with Anharmonicity Corrections

Journal article published in 2011 by Berhane Temelso ORCID, Kaye A. Archer, George C. Shields
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Abstract

For (H2O)n where n = 1-10, we used a scheme combining molecular dynamics sampling with high level ab initio calculations to locate the global and many low lying local minima for each cluster. For each isomer, we extrapolated the RI-MP2 energies to their complete basis set limit, included a CCSD(T) correction using a smaller basis set and added finite temperature corrections within the rigid-rotor-harmonic-oscillator (RRHO) model using scaled and unscaled harmonic vibrational frequencies. The vibrational scaling factors were determined specifically for water clusters by comparing harmonic frequencies with VPT2 fundamental frequencies. We find the CCSD(T) correction to the RI-MP2 binding energy to be small ({\textless}1{\%}) but still important in determining accurate conformational energies. Anharmonic corrections are found to be non-negligble; they do not alter the energetic ordering of isomers, but they do lower the free energies of formation of the water clusters by as much as 4 kcal/mol at 298.15 K.