Context And Results: This work aims to study the influence of the absence and presence of permanent charges on the electronic and dynamical properties of the non-covalent bound diatomic systems involving He and Li, Be as neutral and ionic partners. The charge displacement results suggest that in the formation of HeLi[Formula: see text], HeBe[Formula: see text], and HeBe[Formula: see text], the neutral He atom undergoes, in the electric field of the ion, a pronounced electronic polarization, and the natural bond order theoretical approach indicates that in the formation of the molecular orbital He acts as a weak electron donor. The energy decomposition analysis provides the dispersion and induction components as the attractive leading terms controlling the stability of all systems, confirming that the formed bond substantially maintains a non-covalent nature which is also supported by the Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules (QTAIM) analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this work, the binding features of adducts formed by a noble gas (Ng = He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, and Rn) atom and the oxygen molecule (O) in its ground Σg-3, in the past target of several experimental studies, have been characterized under different theoretical points of view to clarify fundamental aspects of the intermolecular bond. For the most stable configuration of all Ng-O systems, binding energy has been calculated at the theory's CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVTZ level and compared with the experimental findings. Rovibrational energies, spectroscopic constants, and lifetime as a function of temperature were also evaluated by adopting properly formulated potential energy curves.
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