IMAGING THE ELECTRON-DENSITY IN THE HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR-ORBITAL OF GLYCINE

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作者
ZHENG, Y [1 ]
NEVILLE, JJ [1 ]
BRION, CE [1 ]
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[1] UNIV BRITISH COLUMBIA, DEPT CHEM, VANCOUVER, BC V6T 1Z1, CANADA
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10.1126/science.270.5237.786
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The spherically averaged electron density distribution of the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) for the amino acid glycine has been determined by multichannel electron momentum spectroscopy. Comparison of the measured HOMO electron momentum distribution with near-Hartree-Fock limit and density functional theory (DFT) calculations for the Boltzmann-weighted sum of the eight predicted stable conformers indicates that electron correlation effects must be included in order to adequately reproduce the experimental results for glycine. The best-fitting DFT calculation determined with the Becke-Perdew gradient-corrected exchange-correlation functional was used to generate HOMO electron density maps for oriented glycine conformers. The result is shown for the most stable conformer.
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