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JUNE 28 WEDNESDAY MORNING<br />
RIVA-SS-WEM-OR.7 AB INITIO CALCULATIONS FOR THE EXCITED STATE AND<br />
THE CATION OF DIPHENYL ETHER AND COMPARISON WITH REMPI EXPERI-<br />
MENTS. M. Guerra and A. C. S. Paiva. CEFITEC Department of Physics, Faculdade de Ciências<br />
e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2<strong>82</strong>9-<strong>51</strong>6, Caparica, Portugal.<br />
The structure and minimum energy conformations of diphenyl ether (Ph 2 O) both for the ground state<br />
and the first excited state are calculated using HF/6-311++G**, MP2/6-311++G**, BLYP/6-<br />
311++G** and B3LYP/6-311++G** ab initio and density functional computations. Potential energy<br />
surfaces are also obtained for the rotation of the phenyl rings relatively to the C-O-C plane both for<br />
the neutral molecule and the positive ion. The global minimum of the Ph 2 O potential energy surface<br />
was found to be a “twisted” conformation and it doesn’t change with the excitation to the first excited<br />
state nor with a single ionization, altough the C-O-C-C dihedral angle varies slightly and the<br />
molecule floppyness decreases. An initial study of the molecule fragmentation was performed at<br />
B3LYP/6-311++G** theory level.<br />
The spectra of Ph 2 O cooled in a supersonic jet expansion, obtained with one-color resonance enhanced<br />
two-photon ionization suggests the existence of different conformations [1] . The first excited<br />
state low-frequency vibrations for three of the conformers were investigated using a Configuration<br />
Interaction aproach (CI-Singles) and Complete Active Space Multiconfiguration Self Consistent<br />
Field (CASSCF) method. The comparison between the calculated and observed spectra for all the<br />
conformers thus allows us to assign the major bands.<br />
Keywords: Conformational analysis; Diphenyl ether; Photoionization; Ab initio calculation<br />
[1] A. C. S. Paiva et al., International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 221 (2002) 107-115<br />
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