THEORETICAL STUDIES ON BOND DISSOCIATION ENERGIES FOR SOME ALIPHATIC ALCOHOL COMPOUNDS BY DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY AND CBS-Q METHOD

Abstract

Quantum chemical calculations are used to estimate the bond dissociation energies (BDEs) for 20 aliphatic alcohol compounds. These compounds are studied by employing the hybrid density functional theory (B3LYP, B3PW91, and B3P86) methods with 6-311G** basis set and the complete basis set (CBS-Q) method together. It is demonstrated that B3P86 and CBS-Q methods are accurate to compute the reliable BDEs for aliphatic alcohol compounds. In order to test whether the non-local BLYP method suggested by Jursic18 is general for our study and whether B3P86 method has a low basis set sensitivity, the BDEs for 20 aliphatic alcohol compounds are also calculated using BLYP/6-31+G*, BLYP/6-31G*, and B3P86 methods with 6-31G*, 6-31+G*, and 6-31G** basis sets for comparison. The obtained results are compared with the available experimental results. It is noted that B3P86 method is sensitive to the basis sets. Considering the inevitably computational cost of CBS-Q method and the reliability of the B3P86 calculation, B3P86 method with 6-31G** basis set may be more suitable to calculate the BDEs of the C–O bond for aliphatic alcohol compounds.