Zw. Peng et al., DERIVATION OF CLASS-II FORCE-FIELDS .4. VAN-DER-WAALS PARAMETERS OF ALKALI-METAL CATIONS AND HALIDE ANIONS, The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory, 101(39), 1997, pp. 7243-7252
A critical survey of previously reported van der Waals parameters for
alkali metal cations and halide anions is presented. A new set of forc
e field parameters is proposed, derived by fitting the experimental la
ttice constants and lattice energies of 20 ionic alkali halide crystal
s. These parameters are constrained to satisfy two relationships conne
cting the ions with the isoelectronic noble gases-the relative van der
Waals radii R and the coefficients of the London dispersion energies
C-6-using the experimentally determined noble gas van der Waals param
eters. In addition to reproducing physical trends in common with atoms
of isoelectronic species, the present parameters predict more accurat
e crystal structures and energies and, when combined with a molecular
force field for water, also quite accurate gas-phase ion-water interac
tion energies and aqueous solution structures compared to the computed
results previously reported by other authors.