Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 1993, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (5): 711.

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Singly and Strongly Bound Multiply Excited States of B2

CAO Ze-Xing, YAN Guo-Sen, TIAN An-Min   

  1. Department of Chemistry, Sichnan University, Chengdu, 610064
  • Received:1992-04-15 Revised:1993-03-12 Online:1993-05-24 Published:1993-05-24

Abstract: The optimized geometries of several low-lying electronic states of B2 are obtained by using an energy gradient technique and SCFor SOCIenergy minimization methods with a standard 6-31G* basis set.In the upper states of B2, an increase in bond strength can occur in case of one and two-excitations from the σn antibonding MOinto either a bonding σq orπn MO, and the bonding effect of πn, is superior to that of σa,.The transition energies(ET) are given at an accurate second order configuration interaction (SOCI) level of theory, and based on the close agreement between the calculated and observed ET, the Douglas-Herzberg transition is assigned by transition from C3M- to the ground state X3M-.In addition, we have obtained the vibrational frequencies(ωe) for the ground and excited states with the model potential function method.

Key words: B2, SOCI, Excited states

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