Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
The molecular structure and vibrational spectra of N-(3-tert-butyl-2-hydroxybenzylidene)-2,6-diphenyl-4-hydroxyaniline

Erdal Yabalak | Funda Günay | Hakan Arslan

The molecular structure, vibrational frequencies and intensities of N-(3-tert-butyl-2-hydroxybenzylidene)-2,6-diphenyl-4-hydroxyaniline were calculated by the Density Functional Theory methods (BLYP, B3PW91 and B3LYP) using the 6-31G(d,p) basis set. The calculated geometric parameters were compared to the corresponding X-ray structure of the title compound. The comparison of the theoretical and experimental geometry of the title compound shows that the X-ray parameters fairly well reproduce the geometry of optimized by B3LYP method (r = 0.9825). The harmonic vibrations computed for this compound by the B3LYP/6-31G(d,p) method are in good agreement with the observed IR and Raman spectral data. The root mean square values error of the observed and calculated IR bands are found to be 9.80, 9....