Symmetry breaking in the cyclic C3C2H radical

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Publication Date 2010-10-26
DOI 10.1039/C0CP00864H
Impact Factor 3.676
Authors

Benjamin Mintz, T. Daniel Crawford


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Abstract

We have employed high-level coupled cluster methods including connected triple excitations to study the possibility of symmetry-breaking in the 2B2 ground state of the c-C3C2H radical. Specifically, we find that spin-restricted open-shell Hartree–Fock (ROHF) reference orbitals yield a C2v structure, whereas spin-unrestricted Hartree–Fock (UHF) and Brueckner orbitals lead to a symmetry-broken Cs minimum-energy geometry. Equation-of-motion coupled cluster singles and doubles method for ionized states yields a Cs structure with a double-zeta basis set, but not with a triple-zeta basis set. Through a detailed analysis of the orbital instability/near-instability behavior of each type of Hartree–Fock reference, we have determined that the UHF reference wave function is more reliable than the ROHF reference in this case and that the Born–Oppenheimer potential surface for c-C3C2H exhibits a symmetry broken Cs global minimum. This result is supported by excited-state computations, which indicate that a second-order (pseudo) Jahn–Teller interaction is responsible for the symmetry-breaking.

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