The molecules of UFn (n = 1 -6) have been optimized by PBE0 in combination with SARC basis set for Uranium. The scalar relativistic Hamiltonian DKH was employed for the calculations. The optimized geometry of UF5 is shown in Fig.1. For all of these calculations the Orca 5 program package was used…
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Thorium tetrahalides up to ThAt4 have been studied for bonding, frontier molecular orbitals and molecular surface properties. The molecules have been optimized by meta-GGA density functional TPSS and some of their properties were calculated by using the Gaussian quantum chemical program package…
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Since noble gas compounds were first discovered, the syntheses of larger quantities of noble gas compounds have been performed. Various studies have been conducted on new methods of synthesis, identification and characterization of Ng molecules…
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