Re: [Ifeffit] Question--FEFF calclulated atom coordinates and labels

Without venturing in too far to the structure, there are two C off of each N and that would generate 8 degenerate paths to explain one of your questions. Hope that helps, Chris ********************************************* Dr. Chris Patridge Assistant Professor Department of Chemistry SASE 315 D’Youville College 320 Porter Ave Buffalo, NY 14201 716-829-8096 patridgc@dyc.edu

On Jan 13, 2022, at 7:20 AM, Ming Zhang wrote:

 sorry for the trouble, I forgot to register this email.

-----原始邮件----- 发件人:"Ming Zhang" 发送时间:2022-01-13 14:41:04 (星期四) 收件人: ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov 抄送: 主题: Question--FEFF calclulated atom coordinates and labels

Dear IFEFFIT members,

I’m practicing EXAFS fitting with some standard crystal data. I GOT SOME QUESTIONS when I imported the CIF File into the FEFF calculation.

1) I’m confused with the atom label. The VESTA GUI shows that there are C1, C2, and C3 carbons in a unit cell. However, after FEFF calculation, they become C1.1 C2.1 C3.1, so do the other atoms like nitrogen and hydrogen. Since I need to set some geometry constraints, I have to figure out the nomenclature of the atom coordinates calculated by FEFF and link those atoms to real physical images.

2) I’m also confused with the calculated degeneracy, like the path of @ C1.1 @ (I have no idea about the atom C1.1 stands for). It’s a zinc absorber placed in a tetrahedron coordinated by the N atom of imidazole. Very intuitively, the degeneracy of @ N1.1 @ (row 1) is 4, and YES IT IS. But how comes the single scattering path (row 2) of the C atom next to N become 8? Also in row 5, degeneracy of @ N1.1 C2.1 @ is 8. Notably, we only got 3 C atoms in a coordinated molecule, so even treating closely located C atoms into the same one couldn’t help explain this.

FEFF calculation

VESTA GUI

The CIF file is attached. I would appreciate it very much if you could help me out.

Best regards

Ming Zhang

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