10.1021/acs.jpca.7b12094.s001 Yuanyuan Zheng Yuanyuan Zheng Wenrui Zheng Wenrui Zheng Jiaoyang Wang Jiaoyang Wang Huifang Chang Huifang Chang Danfeng Zhu Danfeng Zhu Computational Study on N–N Homolytic Bond Dissociation Enthalpies of Hydrazine Derivatives American Chemical Society 2018 ab initio methods CBS-APNO CBS-QB 3B homolytic bond dissociation enthalpies BDE M 05-2X method ROCBS-QB NBO DFT CBS-Q hydrazine derivatives 58 organonitrogen compounds RMSE 4MP 13 organonitrogen compounds 2018-02-22 00:00:00 Journal contribution https://acs.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Computational_Study_on_N_N_Homolytic_Bond_Dissociation_Enthalpies_of_Hydrazine_Derivatives/5938702 The hydrazine derivatives have been regarded as the important building blocks in organic chemistry for the synthesis of organic N-containing compounds. It is important to understand the structure–activity relationship of the thermodynamics of N–N bonds, in particular, their strength as measured by using the homolytic bond dissociation enthalpies (BDEs). We calculated the N–N BDEs of 13 organonitrogen compounds by eight composite high-level <i>ab initio</i> methods including G3, G3B3, G4, G4MP2, CBS-QB3, ROCBS-QB3, CBS-Q, and CBS-APNO. Then 25 density functional theory (DFT) methods were selected for calculating the N–N BDEs of 58 organonitrogen compounds. The M05-2X method can provide the most accurate results with the smallest root-mean-square error (RMSE) of 8.9 kJ/mol. Subsequently, the N–N BDE predictions of different hydrazine derivatives including cycloalkylhydrazines, <i>N</i>-heterocyclic hydrazines, arylhydrazines, and hydrazides as well as the substituent effects were investigated in detail by using the M05-2X method. In addition, the analysis including the natural bond orbital (NBO) as well as the energies of frontier orbitals were performed in order to further understand the essence of the N–N BDE change patterns.