TY - JOUR
T1 - A many-body energy decomposition analysis (MB-EDA) scheme based on a target state optimization self-consistent field (TSO-SCF) method
AU - Tang, Zhen
AU - Zhu, Hong
AU - Pan, Zhijun
AU - Gao, Jiali
AU - Zhang, Jun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Royal Society of Chemistry.
PY - 2024/6/3
Y1 - 2024/6/3
N2 - In this paper, we combine an energy decomposition analysis (EDA) scheme with many-body expansion (MBE) to develop a MB-EDA method to study the cooperative and anti-cooperative effects in molecular cluster systems. Based on the target state optimization self-consistent field (TSO-SCF) method, the intermolecular interaction energy can be decomposed into five chemically meaningful terms, i.e., electrostatic, exchange, polarization, charge transfer and dispersion interaction energies. MB-EDA can decompose each of these terms in MBE. This MB-EDA has been applied to 3 different cluster systems: water clusters, ionic liquid clusters, and acetonitrile-methane clusters. This reveals that electrostatic, exchange, and dispersion interactions are highly pairwise additive in all systems. In water and ionic liquid clusters, the many-body effects are significant in both polarization and charge transfer interactions, but are cooperative and anti-cooperative, respectively. For acetonitrile-methane clusters, which do not involve hydrogen bonds or charge-charge Coulombic interactions, the many-body effects are quite small. The chemical origins of different many-body effects are deeply analyzed. The MB-EDA method has been implemented in Qbics (https://qbics.info) and can be a useful tool for understanding the many-body behavior in molecular aggregates at the quantum chemical level of theory.
AB - In this paper, we combine an energy decomposition analysis (EDA) scheme with many-body expansion (MBE) to develop a MB-EDA method to study the cooperative and anti-cooperative effects in molecular cluster systems. Based on the target state optimization self-consistent field (TSO-SCF) method, the intermolecular interaction energy can be decomposed into five chemically meaningful terms, i.e., electrostatic, exchange, polarization, charge transfer and dispersion interaction energies. MB-EDA can decompose each of these terms in MBE. This MB-EDA has been applied to 3 different cluster systems: water clusters, ionic liquid clusters, and acetonitrile-methane clusters. This reveals that electrostatic, exchange, and dispersion interactions are highly pairwise additive in all systems. In water and ionic liquid clusters, the many-body effects are significant in both polarization and charge transfer interactions, but are cooperative and anti-cooperative, respectively. For acetonitrile-methane clusters, which do not involve hydrogen bonds or charge-charge Coulombic interactions, the many-body effects are quite small. The chemical origins of different many-body effects are deeply analyzed. The MB-EDA method has been implemented in Qbics (https://qbics.info) and can be a useful tool for understanding the many-body behavior in molecular aggregates at the quantum chemical level of theory.
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U2 - 10.1039/d4cp01259c
DO - 10.1039/d4cp01259c
M3 - Article
C2 - 38884195
AN - SCOPUS:85196174172
SN - 1463-9076
VL - 26
SP - 17549
EP - 17560
JO - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
JF - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
IS - 25
ER -