Nuclear magnetic resonance shielding constants and chemical shifts in linear 199Hg compounds: a comparison of three relativistic computational methods

Vaida Arcisauskaité; Juan I. Melo; Lars Bo Stegeager Hemmingsen; Stephan P. A. Sauer

doi:10.1063/1.3608153

Nuclear magnetic resonance shielding constants and chemical shifts in linear ¹⁹⁹Hg compounds: a comparison of three relativistic computational methods

Vaida Arcisauskaité, Juan I. Melo, Lars Bo Stegeager Hemmingsen, Stephan P. A. Sauer

Department of Chemistry

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Abstract

We investigate the importance of relativistic effects on NMR shielding constants and chemical shifts of linear HgL₂ (L = Cl, Br, I, CH ₃) compounds using three different relativistic methods: the fully relativistic four-component approach and the two-component approximations, linear response elimination of small component (LR-ESC) and zeroth-order regular approximation (ZORA). LR-ESC reproduces successfully the four-component results for the C shielding constant in Hg(CH₃)₂ within 6 ppm, but fails to reproduce the Hg shielding constants and chemical shifts. The latter is mainly due to an underestimation of the change in spin-orbit contribution. Even though ZORA underestimates the absolute Hg NMR shielding constants by ∼2100 ppm, the differences between Hg chemical shift values obtained using ZORA and the four-component approach without spin-density contribution to the exchange-correlation (XC) kernel are less than 60 ppm for all compounds using three different functionals, BP86, B3LYP, and PBE0. However, larger deviations (up to 366 ppm) occur for Hg chemical shifts in HgBr ₂ and HgI₂ when ZORA results are compared with four-component calculations with non-collinear spin-density contribution to the XC kernel. For the ZORA calculations it is necessary to use large basis sets (QZ4P) and the TZ2P basis set may give errors of ∼500 ppm for the Hg chemical shifts, despite deceivingly good agreement with experimental data. A Gaussian nucleus model for the Coulomb potential reduces the Hg shielding constants by ∼100-500 ppm and the Hg chemical shifts by 1-143 ppm compared to the point nucleus model depending on the atomic number Z of the coordinating atom and the level of theory. The effect on the shielding constants of the lighter nuclei (C, Cl, Br, I) is, however, negligible.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume	135
Issue number	044306
Number of pages	11
ISSN	0021-9606
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3608153
Publication status	Published - 28 Jul 2011

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Nuclear magnetic resonance shielding constants and chemical shifts in linear ¹⁹⁹Hg compounds : a comparison of three relativistic computational methods. / Arcisauskaité, Vaida; Melo, Juan I.; Hemmingsen, Lars Bo Stegeager et al.

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