Density Functional Method Studies of X-H (X=C, N, O, Si, P, S) Bond Dissociation Energies

• 来源期刊: 中国化学(英文版)
• 年，卷（期）: 2005,（5）
• 页码范围: 474-482
• 页数: 9页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

The performances of the density functional theory (DFT) methods in calculating X-H bond dissociation energies (BDE, X=C, N, O, Si, P, S) were evaluated. It was found that most DFT methods including B3LYP, B3PW91,G96LYP, PBE1PBE and BH&HLYP significantly underestimated the X-H BDE by as much as 13-24 kJ/mol.The underestimation is not due to the use of finite basis set, because the DFT methods still significantly underestimate the X-H BDE with the complete basis set. Therefore, these DFT methods can not be used to calculate the BDE directly. Nevertheless, the B3P86 method shows very small underestimation for the X-H BDE. Further analysis suggests that there be no advantage for using the restricted open-shell DFT methods. The unrestricted DFT methods actually perform slightly better than the restricted open-shell DFT methods in most cases. Finally, it was found that the underestimation by the DFT methods was largely systematic. The use of the calibrated UDFT/6-311+ + G(d, p) method was recommended to calculate the X-H BDE.