Prediction of hydrocarbon enthalpies of formation by various thermochemical schemes
Abstract
The correlation consistent composite approach (ccCA) has been used to compute the enthalpies of formation (ΔHf's) for 60 closed-shell, neutral hydrocarbon molecules selected from an established set (Cioslowski et al., J. Chem. Phys. 2000, 113, 9377). This set of thermodynamic values includes ΔHf's for hydrocarbons that span a range of molecular sizes, degrees of aromaticity, and geometrical configurations, and, as such, provides a rigorous assessment of ccCA's applicability to a variety of hydrocarbons. The ΔHf's were calculated via atomization energies, isodesmic reactions, and hypohomodesmotic reactions. In addition, for 12 of the aromatic molecules in the set that are larger than benzene, the energies of ring-conserved isodesmic reactions were used to calculate the ΔHf's. Using an atomization energy approach to determine the ΔHf's, the lowest mean absolute deviation (MAD) from experiment achieved by ccCA for the 60 hydrocarbons was 1.10 kcal mol-1. The use of the mixed Gaussian/inverse exponential complete basis set extrapolation scheme (ccCA-P) in conjunction with hypohomodesmotic reaction energies resulted in a MAD of 0.87 kcal mol-1. This value is compared with MADs of 1.17, 1.18, and 1.28 kcal mol-1 obtained via the Gaussian-4 (G4), Gaussian-3 (G3), and Gaussian-3(MP2) [G3(MP2)] methods, respectively (using the hypohomodesmotic reactions). Copyright © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Publication Title
Journal of Computational Chemistry
Recommended Citation
Wilson, B., Deyonker, N., & Wilson, A. (2012). Prediction of hydrocarbon enthalpies of formation by various thermochemical schemes. Journal of Computational Chemistry, 33 (25), 2032-2042. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcc.23038
