Abstract
An efficient technique constructing anharmonic potential energy functions was applied to ab initio vibrational analysis of benzene. Anharmonic potentials including the 6-order terms, much higher than the full quartic force field, were automatically generated by a second-order algorithm using the scaled hypersphere search method, and vibrational calculations were performed at the level of VQDPT[1+2]. In comparison with previously reported anharmonic calculations, the present approach gave an excellent ab initio result for in-plane modes including the b 2u so called Kekulé mode. Characteristic properties of various approaches were discussed in connection with the anharmonic effects and the strong vibronic effects.
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