ISSN:
0020-7608
Keywords:
Computational Chemistry and Molecular Modeling
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Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
A method to perform a polyelectron population analysis of correlated molecular orbital wave functions on the basis of natural atomic orbitals (NAOs), as given by Weinhold, is presented. The method allows calculations of the probabilities of finding various types of electronic events occuring in some target AO positions, including the contributions of ionic and covalent resonance structures. This method is general and neither the theory nor the developed algorithm limit the number of electrons and holes that can be considered. Thus, the analyzed MO wave function can be a usual CI or a MCSCF one, and apart from Weinhold's NAOs. any other type of orthogonal AOs can be used as analyzers, provided that these AOs are linear combinations of the SCF-AOs. Numerical applications are given for ethylene, formaldehyde, butadiene, and acroleine, by adopting various AO basis-set levels (STO-4G, 4-31G, and 6-31G) and by analyzing correlated wave functions (CISD). Improvements in the polyelectron populations when increasing the quality of AO basis sets and the corresponding valence NAOs are revealed by several examples. Furthermore, it is shown that the electroegativity of oxygen in acroleine only has an effect on contributions of ionic and covalent resonance structures, but not on delocalization of the double bonds. 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Additional Material:
2 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qua.560520502
