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As a multidimensional PES for the reaction from quantum chemical calculations is not available at present, one does not know the reason for the surprismg barrier effect in excited tran.s-stilbene. One could suspect diat tran.s-stilbene possesses already a significant amount of zwitterionic character in the confomiation at the barrier top, implying a fairly Tate barrier along the reaction path towards the twisted perpendicular structure. On the other hand, it could also be possible that die effective barrier changes with viscosity as a result of a multidimensional barrier crossing process along a curved reaction path. 

So, within the limitations of the single-detenninant, frozen-orbital model, the ionization potentials (IPs) and electron affinities (EAs) are given as the negative of the occupied and virtual spin-orbital energies, respectively. This statement is referred to as Koopmans theorem [47] it is used extensively in quantum chemical calculations as a means for estimating IPs and EAs and often yields results drat are qualitatively correct (i.e., 0.5 eV). 

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The Hamiltonian provides a suitable analytic form that can be fitted to the adiabatic surfaces obtained from quantum chemical calculations. As a simple example we take the butatriene molecule. In its neutral ground state it is a planar molecule with D2/1 symmetry. The lowest two states of the radical cation, responsible for the first two bands in the photoelectron spectrum, are and... 

We begin by considering a three-atom system, the allyl radical. A two anchor loop applies in this case as illush ated in Figure 12 The phase change takes place at the allyl anchor, and the phase-inverting coordinate is the asymmetric stretch C3 mode of the allyl radical. Quantum chemical calculations confiiin this qualitative view [24,56]. In this particular case only one photochemical product is expected. 

It was shown by several workers that in this case the first-order Jahn-Teller distortion is due to an ej vibration, and that the second-order distortion vanishes. Therefore, in terms of simple Jahn-Teller theoi, the moat around the symmetric point should be a Mexican hat type, without secondary minima. This expectation was borne out by high-level quantum chemical calculations, which showed that the energy difference between the two expected C2v structures ( A2 and Bi) were indeed very small [73]. 

Interactions between hydrogen-bond donor and acceptor groups in different molecules play a pivotal role in many chemical and biological problems. Hydrogen bonds can be studied with quantum chemical calculations and empirical methods. 

The resultant corrections to the SCF picture are therefore quite large when measured in kcal/mole. For example, the differences AE between the true (state-of-the-art quantum chemical calculation) energies of interaction among the four electrons in Be and the SCF mean-field estimates of these interactions are given in the table shown below in eV (recall that 1 eV = 23.06 kcal/mole). 

ELECTROOXIDATION, QUANTUM CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS AND CHEMILUMINESCENT ANALYSIS OF DIHYDROPYRIDINES DERIVATIVES... 

In this paper the electtode anodic reactions of a number of dihydropyridine (DHP) derivatives, quantum-chemical calculations of reactions between DHP cation-radicals and electrochemiluminescers anion-radicals (aromatic compounds) and DHP indirect ECL assay were investigated. The actuality of this work and its analytical value follow from the fact that objects of investigation - DHP derivatives - have pronounced importance due to its phaiTnacology properties as high effective hypertensive medical product. 

Quantum-chemical calculations of PES for carbonic acid dimers [Meier et al. 1982] have shown that at fixed heavy-atom coordinates the barrier is higher than 30kcal/mol, and distance between O atoms is 2.61-2.71 A. Stretching skeleton vibrations reduce this distance in the transition state to 2.45-2.35 A, when the barrier height becomes less than 3 kcal/mol. Meier et al. [1982] have stressed that the transfer is possible only due to the skeleton deformation, which shortens the distances for the hydrogen atom tunneling from 0.6-0.7 A to 0.3 A. The effective tunneling mass exceeds 2mn-... 

The dipole density profile p (z) indicates ordered dipoles in the adsorbate layer. The orientation is largely due to the anisotropy of the water-metal interaction potential, which favors configurations in which the oxygen atom is closer to the surface. Most quantum chemical calculations of water near metal surfaces to date predict a significant preference of oxygen-down configurations over hydrogen-down ones at zero electric field (e.g., [48,124,141-145]). The dipole orientation in the second layer is only weakly anisotropic (see also Fig. 7). 

A negative value of free energy or energy in quantum chemical calculations corresponds to the tautomer 2a (3-X tautomer) being more stable than 3a (5-X tautomer). The equilibrium constant is calculated as Kj- = 2a/2b. 

Also, the observed highly regioselective course in the SnFI substitutions in 2-R-3-nitro-l, 8-naphthyridines (R = FI, OFI, Cl, NFI2, OEt) with the anion of chloromethyl phenyl sulfone was explained by MNDO quantum-chemical calculations showing that, like in the aminations, the interaction of FIOMO of the nucleophile with LUMO of the nitronaphthyridines controls the regioselectivity (91JFIC1075). 

Hydroxyfurazans exist solely in the hydroxy form. This is in accord with quantum chemical calculations (Scheme 167). Density functional theoretical studies (B3LYP/6-311- -G(2d,p)) indicate that 3-hydroxyfurazan is more stable than the... 

Papers dealing with this topic are exhaustively reviewed in Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry I (84CHEC-I(6)235) and II (96CHEC-II(3)373). Nevertheless, little information is available on the 5-oxides. Recently, the heteroaromaticity of thiazole compared with isothiazole and thiadiazole 5,5-dioxide systems was studied (97MI1). Quantum-chemical calculations and X-ray studies were performed on 3,3 -di[l,3-thiazolidin-4-one] derivatives (95JCC(25)589) studied for their potential biological activity (97FA(52)43). 

Conformations of 4-oxo-l,6,7,8,9,9n-hexahydro-4//-pyrido[l,2-n]pyrimi-dine-3-carboxylates and -3-carboxamides were studied by semiempirical quantum chemical calculations at the AMI level (97H(45)2175). While 1-methyl-9n-unsubstituted derivatives adopt a cA-fused conformation, 9a-ethoxy-1-methyl derivatives adopt a trans-fu ed one to avoid a serious non-bonding interaction between 9n-ethoxy and 1-methyl groups, which would be present in an alternative cA-fused conformation. 

Bond orders, charges on the atoms in 1 l//-pyrido[2,l-Z)]quinazolin-l 1-one and its protonated form were calculated by quantum chemical calculations by the semiempirical AMI method. According to the results, the equilibrium conformation of the ring in 1 l//-pyrido[2,l-Z)]quinazolin-l 1-one is planar, while l//-pyrimido[l,2-u]quinolin-1-one adopts a conformation close to a half-chair due to the unfavorable interactions between the oxygen atom of the carbonyl group and the ring C-10 atom in the pen-position (97MI22). 

Many computational studies in heterocyclic chemistry deal with proton transfer reactions between different tautomeric structures. Activation energies of these reactions obtained from quantum chemical calculations need further corrections, since tunneling effects may lower the effective barriers considerably. These effects can either be estimated by simple models or computed more precisely via the determination of the transmission coefficients within the framework of variational transition state calculations [92CPC235, 93JA2408]. 

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