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An important concept for understanding the physical chemistry of a series of solvents involves relating the E value for a single electrode in one solvent to that in another. To accomplish this, we require knowledge of the real free energies of transfer of ions from one solvent to another. The Born equation (2.7.3) is unacceptable for this purpose. Even if this equation were valid, we would still be left with the problem of the x potential and the difference in the zFx energies between any two solvents (cf. eqn. 2.6.30). The Born equation has been the subject of critical examination and sect. 2.11. Table 2.7.20 demonstrates the failure of this relation as there is no correlation between AG° and the dielectric constant. For the transfer of ions from water to F(er = 109) and NMF( = 182), the Born equation requires that AG° is negative which is not observed (e.g. see Table 2.7.20). 

How one obtains the three normal mode vibrational frequencies of the water molecule corresponding to the three vibrational degrees of freedom of the water molecule will be the subject of the following section. The H20 molecule has three normal vibrational frequencies which can be determined by vibrational spectroscopy. There are four force constants in the harmonic force field that are not known (see Equation 3.6). The values of four force constants cannot be determined from three observed frequencies. One needs additional information about the potential function in order to determine all four force constants. Here comes one of the first applications of isotope effects. If one has frequencies for both H20 and D20, one knows that these frequencies result from different atomic masses vibrating on the same potential function within the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. Thus, we... 

The third equation involves the so-called Kerr Constant B—the birefringence observed when polarized light of wavelength A traverses a 1-cm path through an otherwise isotropic dielectric subjected to a unit electric field applied at 90° to the light beam and at 45° to the plane of polarization. By the Langevin-Born orientation theory, B can be written as (24),... 

The modem theory of chemical reaction is based on the concept of the potential energy surface, which assumes that the Born-Oppenheimer adiabatic approximation [16] is obeyed. However, in systems subjected to the Jahn-Teller effect, adiabatic potentials have the physical meaning of the potential energy of nuclei only under the condition that non-adiabatic corrections are small [28]. In the vicinity of the locally symmetric intermediate, these corrections will be very large. The complete description of nuclear motion, i.e. of the mechanism of the chemical reaction, can be obtained only from Schroedinger s equation without applying the Born-Oppenheimer approximation in the vicinity of the locally... 

To address these questions, the theory must be accurate enough [7-12]. Ideally, the Schrddinger equation (SE) should be solved exactly or highly accurately. Under the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approximation, the SE of H2+ can be solved exactly [13-17], but this is not true in the presence of a magnetic field. There is a long history on this subject, such as variational calculations [18-35] and numerical techniques such as finite element [36], Monte Carlo [37, 38], and Lagrange-mesh methods [39,40]. 

Considerable advances in the formal development of DFT as well as in its practical application have been made these last few years. In this chapter, we will not attempt to provide a comprehensive review of the subject, but rather provide an introduction to DFT, covering many of the important attributes that pertain to chemical problems. In the next section, we provide some of the basic calculus associated with functionals. Then some early models used in DFT are presented, followed by a formal presentation of DFT and the formalism used in practical applications. Finally, in the last section, we discuss the ability of DFT to compete with WFT in electronic structure calculations. A more detailed and comprehensive discussion of DFT can be found in the 1989 book by Parr and Yang. In what follows, we assume the Born-Oppenheimer nonrelativistic approximation and use atomic units throughout. Since the nuclei are assumed to be fixed in space, we will not explicitly show this dependence in equations and variables. 

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