Structural investigation of microhydrated thymine clusters and vibrational study of isolated and aqueous forms of thymine using DFT level of theory.

This theoretical study provides the physically reasonable structures of the microhydrated thymine clusters, from the mono- to the penta-hydrated species, by the exploration of their B3LYP and B3LYP-D potential energy surfaces using a global search algorithm of minima (GSAM). The anharmonic vibrational computations of the isolated and aqueous thymine are also reported. They were performed from B3LYP and B3LYP-D potential electronic surfaces followed by a second order perturbative treatment of the anharmonicity.

The use of the GSAM approach for the structural investigation of low-lying isomers of molecular clusters from density-functional-theory-based potential energy surfaces: the structures of microhydrated nucleic acid bases.

This study presents structural properties of microhydrated nucleic acid bases (NABs) - uracil (U), thymine (T), guanine (G), adenine (A), and cytosine (C) - investigated by theoretical computations at the B3LYP level of theory. To obtain the different representations of these microhydrated species, we applied the GSAM procedure: the most stable conformers labeled X,nH2O (X = U, T, G, A and n = 1..

Theoretical strategy to build structural models of microhydrated inorganic systems for the knowledge of their vibrational properties: the case of the hydrated nitrate aerosols.

This study provides theoretical anharmonic calculations for microhydrated NaNO3-labeled (NaNO3, nH2O)x with a water-to-solute ratio (n) ranging from 1 to 3. A representative geometrical model of these forms was first investigated by simulating the molecular clusters as (NaNO3,1H2O)x with x = 1 to 4. The comparison between the calculated time independent anharmonic frequencies using the B3LYP-D/6-311+G(d,p) method and their experimental counterparts led to the choice of a supercluster model.