Editorial of the PCCP themed issue "Spectroscopy and dynamics of medium-sized molecules and clusters".
Editorial of the PCCP themed issue "Spectroscopy and dynamics of medium-sized molecules and clusters".
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PCCP主题期刊“中型分子和团簇的光谱学和动力学”的编辑。
DOI:
10.1039/c3cp90047a
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2013
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M. Hochlaf
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M. Hochlaf
The ‘‘Spectroscopy and dynamics of medium-sized molecules and clusters’’themed issue is aimed to present stateof-the art experimental and theoretical spectroscopy and quantum dynamics. One of the principal topics is the treatment of anharmonicity in medium-sized molecules and clusters either in their ground or excited electronic states. The contributions overview, for instance, accurate descriptions of highly excited states of molecules (including electronic, vibrational and rotational excitation), weakly bound aggregated systems, dynamics of molecules undergoing conformational changes, dynamics of molecules adsorbed on nanostructures, molecules at cold temperatures, molecules in unusual environments (eg, interstellar space), atmospheric molecules and long range particle transfers. The articles of this issue cover the microwave, far infra-red, infra-red, UV-Vis and XUV energy domains. The associated spectroscopies, and their specificities and challenges are nicely shown. The theoretical works also reveal the state-of-the-art methodologies used for these purposes, their validity and how to go beyond the common and standard approximations. Specifically, the papers by Csaszar et al.(DOI: 10.1039/C3CP44610G), Tyuterev et al.(DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50275A), Nikitin et al.(DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50799H), Christiansen et al.(DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50283J) and Tennyson et al.(DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50303H) and the perspective article by Herman and Perry (DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50463H) report ab initio and effective Hamiltonian-based approaches for the generation of the rotational–vibrational states and the rovibrational spectra of small (such as H3+, SO3, CH4/CD4) and larger systems (such as pyridine and the complex between pyridine and a silver cation). The close agreement of the theoretical predictions with the available experimental spectra (for both band positions and intensities) is striking, which validates the proposed techniques. These authors point out that such good agreement depends on the accuracy of the multidimensional potential energy surfaces (PESs) incorporated into their nuclear motion treatment calculations. The papers by Hochlaf and co-workers (DOI: 10.1039/C3CP44429E and DOI: 10.1039/C3CP44708A) and by Rauhut et al.(DOI: 10.1039/C3CP50172H) develop new strategies for the generation of full dimensional PESs for atmospherically important charge transfer tetratomic complexes, for scattering calculations and clustering and how to model the high-order terms in the potential energy surface expansions. For electronic computations, the explicitly correlated (R) CCSD (T)-F12 method is considered to correctly describe the repulsive wall, the van der Waals minimum and the large internuclear distances. A diffuse basis set is mandatory to correctly account for long range interactions. Benchmark systems are treated,