Abstract:
The theoretical calculations of the adiabatic ionization energy(AIE) of amidogen radical have been carried out at the B3LYP, BB1K, MPW1K, MPWB1K, MPW1B95 and CCSD(T) levels of thoery with the 6-31+G(d,p), 6-311+G(d,p), 6-311++G(2d,2p), 6-311++G(2df,2p), 6-311G(3df,3pd), and 6-311++G(3df,3pd) basis sets. The calculated results show that the accuracy of the AIE is obviously improved by the zero-point energy correction and increasing diffuse functions. The calculated AIE by the MPW1B95/6-311++G(3df,3pd) method accords much better with the experimental value than that by the other methods. The MPWB1K method is not suitable for calculating AIE of amidogen radical due to the considerable deviation (3.73eV) from the experimental value. Basd on the present study, we expect that the MPW1B95/6-311++G(3df,3pd) method can be extended to calculate the AIE of the class of amines.