Computational analysis of organic radical species presents significant challenges. This study compares the efficacy of various DFT and wavefunction methods in predicting radical stabilisation energies, bond dissociation energies, and redox potentials for organic radicals. The hybrid meta-GGA M062X-D3(0), and the range-separated hybrids ωB97M-V and ωB97M-D3(BJ) emerged as the most reliable functionals, consistently providing accurate predictions across different basis sets including 6-311G**, cc-pVTZ, and def2-TZVP.
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J Am Chem Soc
January 2025
State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.
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Université Claude Bernard Lyon1, CNRS, IRCELYON, UMR 5256 69100 Villeurbanne France.
While photochemical aging is known to alter secondary organic aerosol (SOA) properties, this process remains poorly constrained for anthropogenic SOA. This study investigates the photodegradation of SOA produced from the hydroxyl radical-initiated oxidation of naphthalene under low- and high-NO conditions. We used state-of-the-art mass spectrometry (MS) techniques, including extractive electrospray ionization and chemical ionization MS, for the in-depth molecular characterization of gas and particulate phases.
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January 2025
Climate and Environmental Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Hwarangno 14-gil 5, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, 02792, Republic of Korea.
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January 2025
Nanjing University, Chemistry, Xianlin 163Hao, Nanjing 210023, 210023, Nanjing, CHINA.
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