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Efficient evaluation of analytic Fukui functions 

Flores-Moreno, Roberto; Melin, Junia; Ortiz, J.V.; Merino, Gabriel (2021-01-26)
An efficient method for the analytic evaluation of Fukui functions is proposed. Working equations are derived and numerical results are used to validate the method on medium size set of molecules. In addition to the ...

Electron binding energies and Dyson orbitals of Al(5)O(m)(-) (m=3,4,5) and Al(5)O(5)H(2)(-) 

Guevara-Garcia, Alfredo; Martinez, Ana; Ortiz, J.V. (2021-01-26)
Photoelectron spectra of Al5Om − m=3–5 and of the anion produced by the dissociative adsorption of a water molecule by Al5O4 − are interpreted with density-functional geometry optimizations and electron-propagator ...

Electron propagator and coupled-cluster calculations on the photoelectron spectra of thiouracil and dithiouracil anions 

Dolgounitcheava, O.; Zakrzewski, V. G.; Ortiz, J. V. (2021-01-26)
Electron affinities, vertical electron detachment energies, and isomerization energies of 4-thiouracil, 2-thiouracil, and 2,4-dithiouracil and their valence anions have been calculated with ab initio electron propagator ...

Electron propagator calculations on C-60 and C-70 photoelectron spectra 

Zakrzewski, V. G.; Dolgounitcheva, O.; Ortiz, J.V. (2021-01-26)
Vertical ionization energies of C60 and C70 fullerenes are calculated with semidirect implementations of electron propagator methods and a triple- plus polarization basis set. These predictions are in close agreement ...

Eukaryotic N-Glycosylation Occurs via the Membrane-anchored C-terminal Domain of the Stt3p Subunit of Oligosaccharyltransferase 

Huang, Chengdong; Bhaskaran, Rajagopalan; Mohanty, Smita (2020-07-24)
N-Glycosylation is an essential and highly conserved protein modification. In eukaryotes, it is catalyzed by a multisubunit membrane-associated enzyme, oligosaccharyltransferase (OT). We report the high resolution ...

Excitation energies, photoionization cross sections, and asymmetry parameters of the methyl and silyl radicals 

Velasco, A. M.; Lavin, C.; Dolgounitcheva, O.; Ortiz, J. V. (2020-01-16)
Vertical excitation energies of the methyl and silyl radicals were inferred from ab initio electron propagator calculations on the electron affinities of CH3 + and SiH3 +. Photoionization cross sections and angular ...

First-order symmetry-adapted perturbation theory for multiplet splittings 

Patkowski, Konrad; Zuchowski, Piotr S.; Smith, Daniel G. A.; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4468-207X (2020-06-25)
We present a symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT) for the interaction of two high-spin open-shell molecules (described by their restricted open-shell Hartree-Fock determinants) resulting in low-spin states of the ...

A generalized any-particle propagator theory: Prediction of proton affinities and acidity properties with the proton propagator 

Diaz-Tinoco, Manuel; Romero, Jonathan; Ortiz, J. V.; Reyes, Andres; Flores-Moreno, Roberto; Ortiz, Joseph V. (2020-01-16)
We have recently extended the electron propagator theory to the treatment of any type of particle using an Any-Particle Molecular Orbital (APMO) wavefunction as reference state. This approach, called APMO/PT, has been ...

Highly accurate potential energy surface for the He-H-2 dimer 

Bakr, Brandon W.; Smith, Daniel G. A.; Patkowski, Konrad; Brandon W. Bakr, Daniel G. A. Smith, and Konrad Patkowski (2020-01-16)
A new highly accurate interaction potential is constructed for the He–H2 van der Waals complex. This potential is fitted to 1900 ab initio energies computed at the very large-basis coupled-cluster level and augmented by ...

Integral approximations in ab initio, electron propagator calculations 

Flores-Moreno, Roberto; Ortiz, J.V. (2021-01-26)
Treatments of interelectronic repulsion that avoid four-center integrals have been incorporated in ab initio, electron-propagator calculations with diagonal self-energy matrices. Whereas the formal scaling of arithmetic ...

The interaction-induced dipole of H-2-H: New ab initio results and spherical tensor analysis 

Lee, Hua-Kuang; Li, Xiaoping; Miliordos, Evangelos; Hunt, Katharine L.C.; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3471-7133 (2020-04-08)
We present numerical results for the dipole induced by interactions between a hydrogen molecule and a hydrogen atom, obtained from finite-field calculations in an aug-cc-pV5Z basis at the unrestricted coupled-cluster level ...

Interpretation of the photoelectron spectra of superalkali species: Li3O and Li3O- 

Zein, S.; Ortiz, J. V. (2020-10-02)
The present paper deals with the interpretation of the photoelectron spectrum of the Li3O-. After several failed attempts to attribute all of the observed peaks in the experimental spectrum to anionic species, neutral ...

Interpretation of the photoelectron spectra of superalkali species: Na3O and Na3O- 

Zein, S; Ortiz, J. V.; Ortiz, Joseph Vincent (2020-08-20)
Recently measured photoelectron spectra of the Na3O- anion have been interpreted with the aid of ab initio electron propagator calculations. As in the case of the Li3O-, we propose that the photoionization of ground and ...

OH3- and O2H5- double Rydberg anions: Predictions and comparisons with NH4- and N2H7- 

Melin, Junia; Ortiz, J.V. (2021-01-26)
A low barrier in the reaction pathway between the double Rydberg isomer of OH3 − and a hydride-water complex indicates that the former species is more difficult to isolate and characterize through anion photoelectron ...

On the accuracy of explicitly correlated coupled-cluster interaction energies - have orbital results been beaten yet? 

Patkowski, Konrad (2020-08-20)
The basis set convergence of weak interaction energies for dimers of noble gases helium through krypton is studied for six variants of the explicitly correlated, frozen geminal coupled-cluster singles, doubles, and ...

Partial photoionization cross sections of and Rydberg radicals 

Velasco, A.M.; Lavin, C.; Martin, I.; Melin, J.; Ortiz, J.V. (2021-01-26)
ammonium and oxonium Rydberg radicals from the outermost, occupied orbitals of their respective ground states are reported. These properties are known to be relevant in photoelectron dynamics studies. For the present ...

Platinum, gold, and silver standards of intermolecular interaction energy calculations 

Kodrycka, Monika; Patkowski, Konrad; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4468-207X (2020-03-10)
High-accuracy noncovalent interaction energies are indispensable as data points for potential energy surfaces and as benchmark values for improving and testing more approximate approaches. The preferred algorithm (the gold ...

Quasiparticle virtual orbitals in electron propagator calculations 

Flores-Moreno, Roberto; Ortiz, J.V. (2021-01-26)
The computational limits of accurate electron propagator methods for the calculation of electron binding energies of large molecules are usually determined by the rank of the virtual orbital space. Electron density ...

A Remodeled Protein Arginine Methyltransferase 1 (PRMT1) Generates Symmetric Dimethylarginine 

Gui, Shanying; Gathiaka, Symon; Li, Jun; Qu, Jun; Acevedo, Orlando; Hevel, Joan M. (2020-07-24)
Protein arginine methylation is emerging as a significant post-translational modification involved in various cell processes and human diseases. As the major arginine methylation enzyme, protein arginine methyltransferase ...

Second-order, two-electron Dyson propagator theory: Comparisons for vertical double ionization potentials 

Ida, T.; Ortiz, J.V. (2021-01-26)
The second-order, two-electron Dyson propagator is derived using superoperator theory with a spin-adapted formulation. To include certain ladder diagrams to all orders, the shifted-denominator SD2 approximation is made. ...