Ab initio ro-vibronic spectroscopy of the Π2 PCS radical and Σ+1PCS− anion
Résumé
Near-equilibrium potential energy surfaces have been calculated for both the PCS radical and its anion
using a composite coupled cluster approach based on explicitly correlated F12 methods in order to
provide accurate structures and spectroscopic properties. These transient species are still unknown
and the present study provides theoretical predictions of the radical and its anion for the first time.
Since these species are strongly suggested to play an important role as intermediates in the interstellar
medium, the rotational and vibrational spectroscopic parameters are presented to help aid in the
identification and assignment of these spectra. The rotational constants produced will aid in groundbased
observation. Both the PCS radical and the PCS– anion are linear. In the PCS– anion, which has
a predicted adiabatic electron binding energy (adiabatic electron affinity of PCS) of 65.6 kcal/mol,
the P–C bond is stronger than the corresponding neutral radical showing almost triple bond character,
while the C–S bond is weaker, showing almost single bond character in the anion. The PCS anion
shows a smaller rotational constant than that of the neutral. The !3 stretching vibrational frequencies
of PCS are red-shifted from the radical, while the !1 and !2 vibrations are blue-shifted with !1
demonstrating the largest blue shift. The ro-vibronic spectrum of the PCS radical has been accurately
calculated in variational nuclear motion calculations including both Renner-Teller (RT) and spinorbit
(SO) coupling effects using the composite potential energy near-equilibrium potential energy
and coupled cluster dipole moment surfaces. The spectrum is predicted to be very complicated even at
lowenergies due to the presence of a strong Fermi resonance between the bending mode and symmetric
stretch, but also due to similar values of the bending frequency, RT, and SO splittings.