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Refractive indices of organo‐metallic and ‐metalloid compounds: A long‐range corrected DFT study
Author(s) -
Maekawa Shintaro,
Moorthi Krzysztof,
Shigeta Yasuteru
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of computational chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.907
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1096-987X
pISSN - 0192-8651
DOI - 10.1002/jcc.24501
Subject(s) - polarizability , chemistry , refractive index , intermolecular force , density functional theory , computational chemistry , intramolecular force , organic chemistry , molecule , optics , physics
Refractive indices of metal‐ and metalloid‐containing compounds are systematically evaluated using the Lorentz–Lorenz equation with polarizabilities obtained via density functional theory (DFT). Among exchange‐correlation functionals studied, the long‐range corrected (LC) fuctionals yield the lowest errors for the polarizabilities of gaseous compounds and refractive indices of liquids. The LC‐DFT predicts very well the wavelength dependence of refractive indices. A scheme for computing Abbe numbers of organometallic and organometaloid compounds is proposed and a refractive index – Abbe number plot for 80 compounds is constructed. The compounds containing heavier metals tend to have higher refractive index and lower Abbe number, but several outliers, among them Te(CH 3 ) 2 , Ni(PF 3 ) 4 , Sb(C 2 F 3 ) 3 , Hg(C 2 F 3 ) 2 , are found. For Hg(C 2 F 3 ) 2 , also the effect of intramolecular and intermolecular degrees of freedom on polarizability is investigated. The absolute relative error in polarizability decreases from 5.7% for monomer model to 1.7% when a dimer model (derived from the available experimental crystal data) is employed. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.