A transferable intermolecular potential for nitramine crystals / by Dan C. Sorescu, Betsy M. Rice, and Donald L. Thompson.

Author/creator Sorescu, Dan C.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAberdeen Proving Ground, MD : Army Research Laboratory, [2000]
Description1 online resource (viii, 32 pages) : digital, PDF file.
Supplemental Contenthttp://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo89
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Other author/creatorRice, Betsy M.
Other author/creatorThompson, Donald L. (Donald Leo)
Other author/creatorU.S. Army Research Laboratory.
Other author/creatorOklahoma State University. Department of Chemistry.
SeriesARL/TR ; 2372
ARL/TR (U.S. Army Research Laboratory (Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.)) ; 2372. UNAUTHORIZED
Abstract We have analyzed the transferability of a previously proposed Buckingham repulsion.dispersion intermolecular potential for the explosive hexahydro-l,3,5-s-trinitro-l,3,5-s-triazine (RDX) (Sorescu, D. C., B. M. Rice, and D. L. Thompson, Journal of physical Chemistry B, vol. 101, p. 798, 1997) to predict the crystal structures (within the approximation of rigid molecules) of a database of 30 nitramines. These include acyclic, monocyclic, and polycyclic molecules. It is shown that the proposed potential model is able to accurately reproduce the crystallographic structures and lattice energies (where available) of these crystals. For the majority of these crystals, the best agreement with experimental structural and energetic data is obtained in those cases when the electrostatic charges have been determined using ab initio methods that include electron correlations effects (namely MP2 and B3LYP). The use 0 the electrostatic charges calculated at the Hartree-Fock level results in large deviations of the predicted lattice energies from the experimental values. The deviations of the lattice energies can be significantly decreased by scaling the electrostatic charges with a constant factor.
General noteTitle from title screen (viewed Oct. 15, 2010).
General note"Prepared in cooperation with Department of Chemistry, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK."
General note"December 2000."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 25-28).
Access restrictionAPPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE.
Issued in other formPaper version: Sorescu, Dan C. Transferable intermolecular potential for nitramine crystals. viii, 32 p.
GPO item number0324-A-01 (online)
Govt. docs number D 101.133:2372

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