Ionization Energies and Dyson Orbials of Allyl Alcohol and Allyl Mercaptan Conformers

The conformers of allyl alcohol and allyl mercaptan were studied with B3LYP/aug-cc-pVTZ method. Their relative energies were calculated at MP3, MP4(SDQ), and CCSD(T) levels. The most stable conformers for these two molecules are Gauche-gauche' (Gg'). The theoretical photoelectron spectra simulated with the calculated ionization energies demonstrate that there are at least four conformers in allyl alcohol and four conformers in allyl mercaptan in the gas-phase experiments. The Dyson orbitals of the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the next HOMO (HOMO-1) of allyl mercaptan Gg' conformer show strongly mixing n(S) and pi(C=C) characteristics, which may be due to the resonance and inductive effects between pi(C=C) and n(S) in HOMO-1 and HOMO.