The first microsolvation step for furans : New experiments and benchmarking strategies

Hannes C. Gottschalk, Anja Poblotzki, Mariyam Fatima, Daniel A. Obenchain, Cristóbal Pérez, Jens Antony, Alexander A. Auer, Leonardo Baptista, David M. Benoit, Giovanni Bistoni, Fabian Bohle, Rahma Dahmani (+21 others)
2020
The site-specific first microsolvation step of furan and some of its derivatives with methanol is explored to benchmark the ability of quantumchemical methods to describe the structure, energetics, and vibrational spectrum at low temperature. Infrared and microwave spectra in supersonic jet expansions are used to quantify the docking preference and some relevant quantum states of the model complexes. Microwave spectroscopy strictly rules out in-plane docking of methanol as opposed to the top
more » ... rdination of the aromatic ring. Contrasting comparison strategies, which emphasize either the experimental or the theoretical input, are explored. Within the harmonic approximation, only a few composite computational approaches are able to achieve a satisfactory performance. Deuteration experiments suggest that the harmonic
doi:10.18154/rwth-2020-05517 fatcat:hm33k57udvdohlrnzmkgnyd6oa