Solvent Phase Optimizations Improve Correlations with Experimental Stability Constants for Aqueous Lanthanide Complexes
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2023-01-06
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Iowa State University Digital Repository, Ames IA (United States)
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Stability constants provide insight into ion complexation in water. While computational studies have been shown to model the energy of the complexation successfully using a thermodynamic cycle approach, it does not extend to calculating the stability constants for 1:1 lanthanide to ligand complexes in solution. Using B3LYP and 6-31+G* Pople basis with small core effective core potential (ECP) on the lanthanum ion, and a solvent model based on the full solute electron density (SMD) solvation model we computed and compared with previously published stability constants of the ligands: acetate, acetohydroximate, acetylacetonate, methanoate, tropolonate, hydroxide, catecholate, malonate, oxalate, phthalate, and sulfate. The best R2 values for the thermodynamic cycle can only be determined by separating the mono and divalent ions to achieve an R2 value of 0.86 and 0.74 for mono and divalent ions, respectively. We show that by optimizing the lanthanide-ligand structures in implicit solvent, we achieve an improved correlation between experimental and computed stability constants of R2 value of 0.89 for the combined mono and divalent ions.
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This is a manuscript of an article published as García Alejo, Andrés, Nuwan De Silva, Yichen Liu, Theresa L. Windus, and Marilú Pérez García. "Solvent Phase Optimizations Improve Correlations with Experimental Stability Constants for Aqueous Lanthanide Complexes." Solvent Extraction and Ion Exchange 41, no. 2 (2023): 241-251.
DOI: 10.1080/07366299.2022.2160646.
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