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Explicitly Correlated Multireference Coupled-Cluster Study of Molecules and Cations with Diradical Character
Jungwirth, Jakub ; Pittner, Jiří (advisor) ; Fišer, Jiří (referee)
Known and proposed helium chemistry embraces a large variety of small-size cationic species. Even though some of these species can be studied experimentally in the gas phase, the vast majority of contemporary studies are backed up or done entirely using high-level of theory calculations. The aim of this thesis is to present a theoretical introduction to ab initio computational chemistry from the basics (definition of the electronic problem, Born-Oppenheimer approximation, Hartree- Fock method) to the Brillouin-Wigner and Mukherjee Hilbert-space state-specific multireference coupled-cluster (MRCC) methods and their explicitly correlated versions. The thesis also contains a study of HeN2+ 2 using the mentioned MRCC methods. An important result has been, that Mukherjee's state-specific multireference coupled-cluster method with perturbative triexcitations Mk CCSD(Tu) gives results in very good agreement to conventional calculations (CASPT2 and MRCI) using a much smaller active space and smaller basis sets.
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Application of chiroptical techniques for exploration of inhomogeneous systems
Jungwirth, Jakub ; Bouř, Petr (advisor) ; Burda, Jaroslav (referee)
Master's Thesis Abstract Jakub Jungwirth Understanding molecular structure of biochemically relevant molecules is of funda- mental interest for these molecules ultimately determine all functions of living organisms. Raman optical activity (ROA) is a chiroptical spectroscopic technique highly sensitive to molecular structure. This thesis presents an introduction to important concepts of ROA and two independent projects aiming to extend the possibilities of ROA, both from the- oretical and experimental points of view. The first project is a conformational analysis of dialanine, an important model peptide. A combined quantum mechanics / molecu- lar dynamics approach was used in spectral simulations and resulted in spectra with an unprecedented agreement with experiment. To obtain information about conformer equi- libria, a decomposition procedure of an experimental spectrum into calculated individual conformer spectra was coded and tested, and proved to be a viable approach. The sec- ond project was an attempt to carry out pioneering ROA measurements of amyloid fibrils, which are difficult to measure due to their inhomogeneous nature (insolubility, birefrin- gence). Within this project, the preparation protocol for such samples was improved. The performance of an all new rotational cuvette was examined and found...
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Explicitly Correlated Multireference Coupled-Cluster Study of Molecules and Cations with Diradical Character
Jungwirth, Jakub ; Pittner, Jiří (advisor) ; Fišer, Jiří (referee)
Known and proposed helium chemistry embraces a large variety of small-size cationic species. Even though some of these species can be studied experimentally in the gas phase, the vast majority of contemporary studies are backed up or done entirely using high-level of theory calculations. The aim of this thesis is to present a theoretical introduction to ab initio computational chemistry from the basics (definition of the electronic problem, Born-Oppenheimer approximation, Hartree- Fock method) to the Brillouin-Wigner and Mukherjee Hilbert-space state-specific multireference coupled-cluster (MRCC) methods and their explicitly correlated versions. The thesis also contains a study of HeN2+ 2 using the mentioned MRCC methods. An important result has been, that Mukherjee's state-specific multireference coupled-cluster method with perturbative triexcitations Mk CCSD(Tu) gives results in very good agreement to conventional calculations (CASPT2 and MRCI) using a much smaller active space and smaller basis sets.
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