Theoretical studies of host-guest interaction in gas hydrates.

Ab initio calculations and atoms-in-molecules (AIM) analysis have been used to investigate the host-guest interaction in dodecahedral water cages using a variety of guest species that include monatomic (He, Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe), diatomic (CO, H(2), N(2), O(2), and NO), triatomic (CO(2), NO(2), and O(3)), and polyatomic (CH(4) and NH(3)) molecules. Geometry optimization for the guest species, host cage, and their complexes was carried out using the second order Møller-Plesset perturbation method with the 6-31G** basis set. Single point energy calculations using the same method but different basis sets (6-31++G**, 6-311++G**, aug-cc-pVDZ, and aug-cc-pVTZ) were carried out for the MP2/6-31G** optimized geometries. The interaction energy between the guest species and the host cage has been obtained in the complete basis set limit by basis set extrapolation.

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