Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of Aluminum solvation

The solvation of Al and its hydrolyzed species in water clusters has been studied by means of ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. The hexa-hydrate aluminum ion formed a stable complex in the finite temperature cluster simulation of one aluminum ion and 16 waters. The average dipole moment of strongly polarized hydrated water molecules in the first solvation shell of the hexa-hydrate aluminum ion was found to be 5.02 Debye. The deprotonated hexa-hydrate complex evolves into a tetra-coordinated aluminate ion with two water molecules in the second solvation shell forming hydrogen bonds to the hydroxyl groups in agreement with the observed coordination.Comment: 12 pages in Elsevier LaTeX, 5 figures in Postscript, 2 last figures are in color, submitted to Chemical Physics Letter

Ab initio many-body calculations on infinite carbon and boron-nitrogen chains

In this paper we report first-principles calculations on the ground-state electronic structure of two infinite one-dimensional systems: (a) a chain of carbon atoms and (b) a chain of alternating boron and nitrogen atoms. Meanfield results were obtained using the restricted Hartree-Fock approach, while the many-body effects were taken into account by second-order M{\o}ller-Plesset perturbation theory and the coupled-cluster approach. The calculations were performed using 6-31$G^{**}$ basis sets, including the d-type polarization functions. Both at the Hartree-Fock (HF) and the correlated levels we find that the infinite carbon chain exhibits bond alternation with alternating single and triple bonds, while the boron-nitrogen chain exhibits equidistant bonds. In addition, we also performed density-functional-theory-based local density approximation (LDA) calculations on the infinite carbon chain using the same basis set. Our LDA results, in contradiction to our HF and correlated results, predict a very small bond alternation. Based upon our LDA results for the carbon chain, which are in agreement with an earlier LDA calculation calculation [ E.J. Bylaska, J.H. Weare, and R. Kawai, Phys. Rev. B 58, R7488 (1998).], we conclude that the LDA significantly underestimates Peierls distortion. This emphasizes that the inclusion of many-particle effects is very important for the correct description of Peierls distortion in one-dimensional systems.Comment: 3 figures (included). To appear in Phys. Rev.

Ion association in AlCl3 aqueous solutions from Constrained First Principles Molecular Dynamics

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Ab initio molecular dynamics of aqueous 2+ and 3+ cations: a model of the 2nd hydration shell

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Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of the hydration shells of highly charged metal ions in aqueous solutions

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1st principle simulation of H-bonding structure, ion association, and proton and ligand transfer reactions in metal ion hydration shells under ambient and extreme conditions

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Predicting the chemical and physical properties of geothermal fluids: Model development and molecular level theoretical understanding

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Predicting the chemical and physical properties of geothermal fluids :Model development and molecular level theoretical understanding

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First principle dynamical simulation of hydrogen bond structure, dynamics and simple reactions in the hydration shells of highly charged metal ions

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