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We have investigated the relationship between the molecular configuration and dipole moment of some fluorinated liquid crystals (LCs). The geometries of the molecules were preliminarily optimized at empirical AM1 and then were further optimized at B3LYP/6-31G(d) level. The dipole moment has been calculated. It is strongly influenced by the position and number of fluorine substituents in the benzene ring of the molecule. The polarizability, mean polarizabilities, and anisotropic polarizability of the phenylbicyclohexane (PBC) fluorine substituents are also given and discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The SAC-CI (symmetry-adapted-cluster configuration-interaction) method presented in Gaussian 03 program package is applied to investigate the adiabatic potential energy curves (PECs) of 7Li2(b3Πu). These calculations are performed at numbers of basis sets, such as 6-311++G(3df,3pd), 6-311++G(2df,2pd), 6-311++G(df,pd), D95V++, D95(3df,3pd), D95(d,p), cc-PVTZ, 6-311++G and 6-311++G(d,p). All the ab initio calculated points are fitted to the analytic Murrell-Sorbie functions and then used to compute the spectroscopic parameters. The analytic potential energy function (APEF) for this b3Πu state is reported. By comparison, the spectroscopic parameters reproduced by the APEF attained at 6-311++G(2df,2pd) are found to be very close to the latest experimental findings. With the APEF obtained at the SAC-CI/6-311++G(2df,2pd) level of theory, a total of 62 vibrational states is found when J = 0. The complete vibrational levels, classical turning points, inertial rotation and centrifugal distortion constants for these vibrational states are also reported. The reasonable dissociation limit for this state is deduced using the calculated results at present. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2007 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]