Anharmonic quantum nuclear densities from full dimensional vibrational eigenfunctions with application to protonated glycine

Chiara Aieta, Marco Micciarelli, Gianluca Bertaina and Michele Ceotto ()
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Chiara Aieta: Università degli Studi di Milano
Marco Micciarelli: Università degli Studi di Milano
Gianluca Bertaina: Università degli Studi di Milano
Michele Ceotto: Università degli Studi di Milano

Nature Communications, 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract The interpretation of molecular vibrational spectroscopic signals in terms of atomic motion is essential to understand molecular mechanisms and for chemical characterization. The signals are usually assigned after harmonic normal mode analysis, even if molecular vibrations are known to be anharmonic. Here we obtain the quantum anharmonic vibrational eigenfunctions of the 11-atom protonated glycine molecule and we calculate the density distribution of its nuclei and its geometry parameters, for both the ground and the O-H stretch excited states, using our semiclassical method based on ab initio molecular dynamics trajectories. Our quantum mechanical results describe a molecule elongated and more flexible with respect to what previously thought. More importantly, our method is able to assign each spectral peak in vibrational spectroscopy by showing quantitatively how normal modes involving different functional groups cooperate to originate that spectroscopic signal. The method will possibly allow for a better rationalization of experimental spectroscopy.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18211-3

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