Vibrational circular dichroism spectra of natural products by means of the nuclear velocity perturbation theory.

We present the application of the recently implemented nuclear velocity perturbation theory, using the combined Gaussian and plane waves approach in CP2K, to the vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectra of a set of natural products. Even though the calculations were carried out for isolated molecules in the gas-phase limit, neglecting inter-molecular interactions and anharmonic effects, the match between simulated and experimental spectra is reasonable. We also study the influence of different density functionals on the conformational search and the resulting VCD spectra via group coupling matrices (GCMs). The GCM analysis reveals that the VCD signal can in some cases arise from moieties which are close to each other and in other cases from moieties far from each other. Differences in spectra obtained using different exchange-correlation density functionals can be attributed to interaction terms between different moieties in the molecules changing their sign.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Sandra Luber reports financial support was provided by University of Zurich.