title: Refractive indices of organo-metallic and -metalloid compounds: A long-range corrected DFT study.
abstract: Refractive indices of metal- and metalloid-containing compounds are systematically evaluated using the Lorentz-Lorenz equation with polarizabilities obtained via density functional theory (DFT). Among exchange-correlation functionals studied, the long-range corrected (LC) fuctionals yield the lowest errors for the polarizabilities of gaseous compounds and refractive indices of liquids. The LC-DFT predicts very well the wavelength dependence of refractive indices. A scheme for computing Abbe numbers of organometallic and organometaloid compounds is proposed and a refractive index - Abbe number plot for 80 compounds is constructed. The compounds containing heavier metals tend to have higher refractive index and lower Abbe number, but several outliers, among them Te(CH3)2, Ni(PF3)4, Sb(C2F3)3, Hg(C2F3)2, are found. For Hg(C2F3)2, also the effect of intramolecular and intermolecular degrees of freedom on polarizability is investigated. The absolute relative error in polarizability decreases from 5.7% for monomer model to 1.7% when a dimer model (derived from the available experimental crystal data) is employed. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, 305-8577, Japan.|R&D Center, Mitsui Chemicals, Inc, Sodegaura, 299-0265, Japan.
authors.forename: Shintaro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maekawa
authors.affiliation: R&D Center, Mitsui Chemicals, Inc, Sodegaura, 299-0265, Japan.
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Moorthi
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, 305-8577, Japan.|Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, 305-8577, Japan.
authors.forename: Yasuteru
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shigeta
keywords: Abbe number; density functional theory; optical dispersion; polarizability; refractive index