INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTROCHEMICAL SCIENCE, cilt.13, ss.8241-8259, 2018 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
In this theoretical study, the density functional theory (DFT) at the B3LYP functionals with 6-311++G(2d,2p), 6-311++G(3df,3pd), cc-pvtz basis sets, BP86 functionals with/6-311++G(2d,2p) basis set and ab initio calculations using the HF/6-311++G(2d,2p) methods were performed on six thiosemicarbazone derivatives, namely 4-methyl acetophenone thiosemicarbazone (Inh1), 4-methoxy acetophenone thiosemicarbazone (Inh2), Benzaldehyde thiosemicarbazone (Inh3), 4-methoxy benzaldehyde thiosemicarbazone (Inh4), 4-ethyl benzaldehyde thiosemicarbazone (Inh5) and 4-bromo benzaldehyde thiosemicarbazone (Inh6). The quantum chemical parameters/descriptors, namely, dipole moment (D), highest occupied molecular orbital energy EHOMO, lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energy ELUMO, HOMO-LUMO energy gap, absolute electronegativity (χ), absolute hardness (η), softness (σ), proton affinity (PA), electrophilicity (ω) and nucleophilicity (?) were calculated and correlated with the experimental %IE. It was observed that the theoretical and experimental results were in good agreement.