Abstract
As a general rule, saturated hydrocarbons are unable to bind an electron, i.e., their electron affinities are negative, but the corresponding perfluorinated molecules can have significant electron affinities, especially in the case of branched and ring systems. Four different density functional theory (DFT) methods in conjunction with double-zeta plus polarization function augmented diffuse function basis sets (DZP++) have been employed to study the equilibrium geometries, electron affinities, and vibrational frequencies of the adamantane (C10H16) and perfluoroadamantane (C10F16) molecules. Three types of neutral-anion separations reported are the adiabatic electron affinity, the vertical electron affinity, and the vertical detachment energy. The adiabatic electron affinity predicted at the DZP++ B3LYP level of theory for adamantane is, as expected, negative (-0.58 eV), while that for perfluoroadamantane is distinctly positive, namely, 1.06 eV (or 1.31 eV after correction for zero-point vibrational energies).
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