Calculating atomic orbitals

The magnitude of the angular momentum of an electron that occupies the following atomic orbitals, calculated ... 

In the present paper, first we investigate the photoionization cross sections for atomic orbitals calculated with different scaling parameters of exchange-correlation potential, and for those of different oxidation states, namely different charge densities. We discuss the effect of the variation of the spatial extension of the atomic orbital on the photoionization cross section. Next we make LCAO (linear combination of atomic orbitals) molecular orbital (MO) calculations for some compounds by the SCF DV-Xa method with flexible basis functions including the excited atomic orbitals. We calculate theoretical photoelectron spectrum using the atomic orbital components of MO levels and the photoionization cross sections evaluated for the flexible atomic orbitals used in the SCF MO calculation. The difference between the present result and that calculated with the photoionizaion cross section previously reported is discussed. 

Effective potentials also depend on the type of basis set used, hi atomic orbital calculations, they are sometimes referred to as frozen-core potentials. In most cases, only the highest-energy s, p and d electrons are included in the calculation. In plane-wave calculations, effective potentials are known as pseudopotentials They come in different varieties soft or ultrasoft pseudopotentials need only a relatively low energy cut-off as they involve a larger atomic core. ... 

When discussing the He atom, we stressed that a wavefunction written as the product of two atomic orbitals is inherently wrong since it fails to reflect the fact that repulsion between the electrons tends to keep them far apart. The energy calculated from such a wavefunction will therefore be higher than that of the real atom. What was true for the two-electron atom, is equally true for a two-electron molecule. Like atomic orbital calculations, molecular orbital calculations on moiecules containing two or more electrons are inherently wrong. 

Bohmaim JA, Weinhold F, Farrar TC (1997) Natural chemical shielding analysis or nuclear magnetic resonance shielding tensors from gauge-including atomic orbital calculations. J Chem Phys 107 1173-1184... 

Scheme 6.34 The general scheme of the synthesis of 3-benzimidazoylquinoxalin-2(lfl)-one 37s starting with quinoxalin-2(l/f)"On6 derivative 103 according to the referenees (Kurasawa et aL 1984, 1985a, b Kurasawa and Takada 1980). The geometry of C=C double bond ftw quinoxaline derivative 107 is strongly supported by Gauge-Independent Atomic Orbital Calculations...

Fig, 5.13 Results of a linear-combination-of-atomic-orbitals calculation of the effect of photoexcitation on TT-electron distribution in 1,4,5,8-tetramino anthraquinone. The size of the black gray) circles gives the positive (negative) wavefunction amplitude for the electrons localized in the Pj-orbitals [31]... 

LCAO method A method of calculation of molecular orbitals based upon the concept that the molecular orbital can be expressed as a linear combination of the atomic orbitals. 

This, the well-known Hellmann-Feynman theorem [128,129], can then be used for the calculation of the first derivatives. In nonnal situations, however, the use of an incomplete atom-centered (e.g., atomic orbital) basis set means that further terms, known as Pulay forces, must also be considered [130]. 

Now we can calculate the ground-state energy of H2. Here, we only use one basis function, the Is atomic orbital of hydrogen. By symmetry consideration, we know that the wave function of the H2 ground state is... 

HMO theory is named after its developer, Erich Huckel (1896-1980), who published his theory in 1930 [9] partly in order to explain the unusual stability of benzene and other aromatic compounds. Given that digital computers had not yet been invented and that all Hiickel s calculations had to be done by hand, HMO theory necessarily includes many approximations. The first is that only the jr-molecular orbitals of the molecule are considered. This implies that the entire molecular structure is planar (because then a plane of symmetry separates the r-orbitals, which are antisymmetric with respect to this plane, from all others). It also means that only one atomic orbital must be considered for each atom in the r-system (the p-orbital that is antisymmetric with respect to the plane of the molecule) and none at all for atoms (such as hydrogen) that are not involved in the r-system. Huckel then used the technique known as linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO) to build these atomic orbitals up into molecular orbitals. This is illustrated in Figure 7-18 for ethylene. 

SCF approximation. The indices //, v, A, and o denote four atomic orbital centers, so that the number of such orbitals that needs to be calculated increases proportionally scales with ) N, where N is the number of AOs, This was an intractable task in 1965, so Pople, Santry, and Segal introduced the approximation that only integrals in which = v and J. = o (i.e., li)) would be considered and that, further-... 

Molecular dipole moments are often used as descriptors in QPSR models. They are calculated reliably by most quantum mechanical techniques, not least because they are part of the parameterization data for semi-empirical MO techniques. Higher multipole moments are especially easily available from semi-empirical calculations using the natural atomic orbital-point charge (NAO-PC) technique [40], but can also be calculated rehably using ab-initio or DFT methods. They have been used for some QSPR models. 

Because th e calculation of m n Iti-ceiiter in tegrals that are in evitable for ah iniiio method is very difficult and time-con sum in g. Ilyper-Chem uses Gaussian Type Orbital (GTO) for ah initio methods. In truly reflecting a atomic orbital. STO may he better than GTO. so HyperC hem uses several GTOs to construct a STO. The number of GTOs depends on the basis sets. For example, in the minimum STO-3G basis set IlyperGhem uses three GTOs to construct a STO. 

Even with the minimal basis set of atomic orbitals used m most sem i-empirical calculatitm s. the n urn ber of molecii lar orbitals resulting from an SCFcalciilation exceeds the num ber of occupied molecular orbitals by a factor of about two. The n um ber of virtual orbitals in an ah initio calculation depends on the basis set used in this calculation. 

MP2 correlation energy calculations may increase the computational lime because a tw o-electron integral Iran sfonnalion from atomic orbitals (.40 s) to molecular orbitals (MO s) is ret]uired. HyperClicrn rnayalso need additional main memory arul/orcxtra disk space to store the two-eleetron integrals of the MO s. 

To this pom t, th e basic approxmi alien is th at th e total wave I lnic-tion IS a single Slater determinant and the resultant expression of the molecular orbitals is a linear combination of atomic orbital basis functions (MO-LCAO). In other words, an ah miiio calculation can be initiated once a basis for the LCAO is chosen. Mathematically, any set of functions can be a basis for an ah mitio calculation. However, there are two main things to be considered m the choice of the basis. First one desires to use the most efficient and accurate functions possible, so that the expansion (equation (49) on page 222). will require the few esl possible term s for an accurate representation of a molecular orbital. The second one is the speed of tW O-electron integral calculation. 

So called Ilydrogenic atomic orbitals (exact solutions for the hydrogen atom) h ave radial nodes (values of th e distance r where the orbital s value goes to zero) that make them somewhat inconvenient for computation. Results are n ot sensitive to these nodes and most simple calculation s use Slater atom ic orbitals ofthe form... 

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