Abstract
The structures and vibrational spectra of inorganic aerosols, including ammonium sulfate (NH4)2SO4, ammonium nitrate NH4NO3, and sodium nitrate NaNO3 are investigated at the periodic ab initio quantum mechanical level with the CRYSTAL code, which is based on Gaussian basis sets. Local density (LDA), gradient-corrected (PW91), and hybrid (B3LYP) density functionals have been used and the results are compared with experiment. All three functionals reproduce the equilibrium geometry of these aerosols to a high level of accuracy. The calculations of the frequencies gave a mean absolute deviation from experiment of 3% for B3LYP, clearly showing that this functional performs extremely well in this case. The mean absolute deviation is about 7% and 6% for PW91 and LDA, respectively.
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