Theoretical Comparative Study of the Structure, Dynamics and Electronic Properties of Five Ally Molecules: Allicin, Methyl Propyl Disulfide (MPD), Allyl Methyl Sulfide (AMS), S-allyl cysteine (SAC) and S-allyl mercaptocysteine (SAMC)

The structural, dynamics and electronic properties of five allyl molecules have been investigated theoretically by performing semi-empirical molecular orbital (AM1 and PM3), ab-initio (RHF) and density functional theory calculations. The geometry of the molecules have been optimized, the vibrational spectra and the electronic properties of the molecules have been calculated in their ground states in gas phase. For each molecule, we found that the optimized geometries resulting from calculations based on the three levels of accuracy, to be very similar. However, we found that an accurate description of the vibrational properties of these molecules necessitates calculations at the ab-initio level. The electronic structures of these molecules were performed at the DFT level, resulting in an accurate description of the HOMO-LUMO gap and the local charges.