Abstract:
The calculation of NMR-shifts with quantum chemical methods is a valuable tool for the interpretation of NMR-spectra. This is very important to yield structural information and to investigate chemical reaction mechanisms. It has been found for numerous systems that the description of electronic correlation is crucial for a correct treatment. This is especially true for all atoms except hydrogen. In the present thesis an implementation of routines for the calculation of NMR-shifts on the level of second-order-Moeller-Plesset-pertubation-theory (MP2) was carried out. This method is attractive because of its accuracy-effort-ratio and it is widely used to calculate different molecular properties. The implementation was done in a commercial quantum-chemistry-package. Additionaly, the accuracy of the resolution-of-the-identity(RI)-method for the MP2-NMR-shifts was investigated. It is well known that this method accelerates the calculation speed, decreases the scaling of the memory and beyond that is promising for efficient implementations.
Furthermore, a new method for the estimation of the absorption energy of molecules on solids was investigated and applied to an experimental topic: The adsorption of the phthalocyanine CuPcF16 on a metallic surface is studied because of its application as an organic semiconductor. The calculation of the adsorption energy of this system poses many problems. In the present thesis, the lower bound of the adsorbtion-energy was calculated for the first time. The new method uses the distortion energy, calculated by density functional theory, as a lower bound of the adsorption energy. It can be applied to any system that has experimentally measurable distortions when it is adsorbed on a surface.