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In this section we examine this orthogonality constraint in order to evaluate its consequences for a theory of valence. Is it a substantive formal constraint on the type of model we may use does it restrict the type of physical phenomenon we can describe or is it simply a technical constraint on the method of calculation or what In fact we shall find that the strong orthogonality constraint is central to any orbital basis theory of molecular electronic structure. It has a bearing on the applicability of the model approximations we use, on the validity of most numerical approximations used within these models and (apart from the simplest MO model) has a dominant effect on the technical feasibility of the methods of solution of the equations generated by our models. Thus, it is of some importance to try to separate these various effects and attempt to evaluate them individually. 

It is of vital interest for a wider applicability of CTCB to examine how these two mechanisms can be accommodated in OCT. In Section 3, we shall argue that the mutual decoupling status of several subsets of basis functions, manifesting itself by the absence of any external communications (bond orders) in the whole system, calls for the separate unit normalization of its input probabilities since such fragments constitute the mutually nonbonded (closed) building blocks of the molecular electronic structure. It will be demonstrated, using simple hydrides as an illustrative example, that the fulfillment of this requirement dramatically improves the agreement with the accepted chemical intuition and the alternative bond multiplicity concepts formulated in the MO theory. 

Structures and substitution patterns of bridge elements in ID tt systems conjugation efficiency. The electronic requirements for optimum molecular second-order polarizabilities devised on the basis of the two-state model (see pp. 143 and 168) and the technical requirements to translate molecular properties into stable bulk materials partially coincide with the requirements for dyes in classical domains of application, e.g. in textile dyeing and colour... 

Verani and coworkers widely investigated stimuli-responsive soft materials with interesting optical and redox behaviors. Such materials are able to self-assembly in functional ordered structures, as Langmuir-Blodgett films and liquid crystals, and possess potential applications in molecular electronics and magnetic films as well. These compounds are mainly based on Co(II) (94), Co(III) (95), Cu(II) (96), Fe(II)/Fe(III) (97), and Ni (II) and Zn(II) (98). A recent overview dedicated to colloidal systems, and their application in different fields has recently appeared in the literature (99). 

In previous reports to this series, the increasing use of many-body perturbation theory in molecular electronic structure studies was measured by interrogating the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) databases. In particular, I determined the number of incidences of the string MP2 in titles and/or ke5rwords and/or abstracts. This acronym is frequently associated with the simplest form of many-body perturbation theory. This assessment of the use of second order many-body perturbation theory will undoubtedly miss many routine applications but should serve to convey both the extent and the breadth of contemporary application areas. 

Many-body perturbation theory in its lowest order form, which is often designated MP2, continues to be the most widely used of the ab initio approaches to the molecular electronic structure problem which go beyond an independent particle model and take account of the effects of electron correlation. The main focus of the present review has been on some of the emerging fields in which MP2 calculations are being carried out. Obviously, within the limited space available it has not possible to cover all of the fields of application. Some selectivity has been necessary, but the choices made do provide a snapshot of the range of contemporary applications of chemical modelling using many-body perturbation theory. 

Applications of many-body perturbation theory to the molecular electronic structure problem have been published during the reporting period in an ever increasing range of scientific areas. In particular, in its second order form, many-body perturbation theory continues to be the most widely used ab initio quantum chemical method for describing the effects of electron correlation. A review of the numerous applications reported during the period under consideration is given in Section 4. 

It is known that many proteins and peptides aggregate into extended p sheet like structures [3], Formation of amyloid fibrils is recognized important not only in understanding of human diseases but also is found acceptable for development of ordered nanostructures with modifiable properties and applicable in biotechnology, material science, molecular electronics and related fields. 

Density functional theory (DFT) provides an accurate and inexpensive access to molecular electronic structure and properties and was already used for scalar relativistic EFG calculations for example on Fe in solids [145] or in molecules [146,147]. We will not report on nonrela-tivistic DFT EFG calculations here but focus on the ZORA [148-151] and especially ZORA-4 methods, the latter including the density from the small component. Since the ZORA method is a two-component method sizable picture change effects will occur when calculating a core property like the EFG. In order to briefly illustrate this method a few of the fundamental equations will be given. A concise treatment of the ZORA formalism and its applications can be found in [152]. 

Abstract ESR spectroscopic applications to polymer science are presented. ESR parameters used for the molecular and material characterization of polymer materials are reviewed. It is emphasized that ESR studies of the polymer science are particularly effective in three areas. (1) Intermediate species such as free radicals produced in chemical reactions of polymer materials can be directly detected. (2) The temperature dependent ESR spectra of free radicals trapped in the polymer matrices are very effective for the evaluation of molecular mobility (molecular motion) of polymer chains. (3) The mobility of electron, the structure of solitons, and the doping behavior in conduction polymers can be observed in detail in order to clarify the mechanism of conduction. 

Since the relevant dimensional parameter is 1/D, the pseudoclas-sical large-Z) limit is closer to D = 3 than is the hyperquantum low-D limit. As in Fig. 3, for D finite but very large, equivalent to a very heavy electronic mass, the electrons are confined to harmonic oscillations about the fixed positions attained in the D oo limit. We call these motions Langmuir vibrations, to acknowledge his prescient suggestion 70 years ago [89] that the electrons could...rotate, revolve, or oscillate about definite positions in the atom. In a dimensional perturbation expansion the first-order term, proportional to 1/D, corresponds to these harmonic vibrations, whereas higher-order terms correspond to anharmonic contributions. Standard methods for analysis of molecular vibrations [90] thus become directly applicable to electronic structure. These methods are semiclassical in form and far simpler, both conceptually and computationally, than the conventional orbital formulation. 

Moller-Plesset many-body perturbation theory taken through second order in the energy is the most commonly used ab initio molecular electronic structure method in contemporary quantum chemistry. For this report on many-body perturbation theory and its application to the molecular electronic structure problem we restricted our survey of applications to second-order Moller-Plesset perturbation theory. Even with this restriction, the nmnber of pubhcations appearing in the period covered by our review - namely, June 1999 to May 2001 - is sizeable. We recorded in the introduction that 883 publications containing the string MP2 in the title or keywords appeared in the year 2000 alone. However, rather than review just a small subset of these publications we decided to try to convey the... 

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