Charge distribution moments

The long-range interactions between a pair of molecules are detemiined by electric multipole moments and polarizabilities of the individual molecules. MuJtipoJe moments are measures that describe the non-sphericity of the charge distribution of a molecule. The zeroth-order moment is the total charge of the molecule Q = Yfi- where q- is the charge of particle and the sum is over all electrons and nuclei in tlie molecule. The first-order moment is the dipole moment vector with Cartesian components given by... 

Consider the interaction of a neutral, dipolar molecule A with a neutral, S-state atom B. There are no electrostatic interactions because all the miiltipole moments of the atom are zero. However, the electric field of A distorts the charge distribution of B and induces miiltipole moments in B. The leading induction tenn is the interaction between the pennanent dipole moment of A and the dipole moment induced in B. The latter can be expressed in tenns of the polarizability of B, see equation (Al.S.g). and the dipole-mduced-dipole interaction is given by... 

The microscopic origin of x and hence of Pis the non-unifonnity of the charge distribution in the medium. To lowest order this is given by the dipole moment, which in turn can be related to the dipole moments of the component molecules in the sample. Thus, on a microscopic quantum mechanical level we have the relation... 

Only if the total charge on the system (q) equals zero will the dipole moment be unchanged Similar arguments can be used to show that if both the charge and the dipole moment ar zero then the quadrupole moment is independent of the choice of origin. For convenience the origin is often taken to be the centre of mass of the charge distribution. 

Our discussion of elecfronic effects has concentrated so far on permanent features of the cliarge distribution. Electrostatic interactions also arise from changes in the charge distribution of a molecule or atom caused by an external field, a process called polarisation. The primary effect of the external electric field (which in our case will be caused by neighbouring molecules) is to induce a dipole in the molecule. The magnitude of the induced dipole moment ginj is proportional to the electric field E, with the constant of proportionahty being the polarisability a ... 

The two-center two-electron repulsion integrals ( AV Arr) represents the energy of interaction between the charge distributions at atom Aand at atom B. Classically, they are equal to the sum over all interactions between the multipole moments of the two charge contributions, where the subscripts I and m specify the order and orientation of the multipole. MNDO uses the classical model in calculating these two-center two-electron interactions. 

Now let us examine the molecular origin of Molecular polarity may be the result of either a permanent dipole moment p or an induced dipole moment ind here the latter arises from the distortion of the charge distribution in a molecule due to an electric field. We saw in Chap. 8 that each of these types of polarity are sources of intermolecular attraction. In the present discussion we assume that no permanent dipoles are present and note that the induced dipole moment is proportional to the net field strength at the molecule ... 

Gaussian also predicts dipole moments and higher multipole moments (through hexadecapole). The dipole moment is the first derivative of the energy with respect to an applied electric field. It is a measure of the asymmetry in the molecular charge distribution, and is given as a vector in three dimensions. For Hartree-Fock calculations, this is equivalent to the expectation value of X, Y, and Z, which are the quantities reported in the output. 

At the molecular level, electric dipole moments are important because they give information about the charge distribution in a molecule. Examination of the experimental data for a few simple compounds reveals that the electric dipole moment is also a property associated with chemical bonds and their polarity. The... 

Multipole moments are useful quantities in that they collectively describe an overall charge distribution. In Chapter 0, I explained how to calculate the electrostatic field (and electrostatic potential) due to a charge distribution, at an arbitrary point in space. 

The original FMM has been refined by adjusting the accuracy of the multipole expansion as a function of the distance between boxes, producing the very Fast Multipole Moment (vFMM) method. Both of these have been generalized tc continuous charge distributions, as is required for calculating the Coulomb interactioi between electrons in a quantum description. The use of FMM methods in electronic structure calculations enables the Coulomb part of the electron-electron interaction h be calculated with a computational effort which depends linearly on the number of basi functions, once the system becomes sufficiently large. 

The Self-Consistent Reaction Field (SCRF) model considers the solvent as a uniform polarizable medium with a dielectric constant of s, with the solute M placed in a suitable shaped hole in the medium. Creation of a cavity in the medium costs energy, i.e. this is a destabilization, while dispersion interactions between the solvent and solute add a stabilization (this is roughly the van der Waals energy between solvent and solute). The electric charge distribution of M will furthermore polarize the medium (induce charge moments), which in turn acts back on the molecule, thereby producing an electrostatic stabilization. The solvation (free) energy may thus be written as... 

The charge distribution of the molecule can be represented either as atom centred charges or as a multipole expansion. For a neutral molecule, the lowest-order approximation considers only the dipole moment. This may be quite a poor approximation, and fails completely for symmetric molecules which do not have a dipole moment. For obtaining converged results it is often necessarily to extend the expansion up to order 6 or more, i.e. including dipole, quadrupole, octupole, etc. moments. 

The type of conjugation is also reflected in the frontier orbital profile, the charge distribution, and the permanent dipole moments. The results of semiempirical calculations on l-methylpyridinium-3-olate (16), Malloapeltine (17), Trigollenine (18), and Homarine (19) are presented in Scheme 7. Characteristically for the class of conjugated mesomeric betaines, the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) are distributed over the entire molecule as examplifled for l-methylpyridinium-3-olate. It was shown that 90% of the... 

The charge distribution of neutral polar molecules is characterized by a dipole moment which is defined classically by jx = E, , , where the molecular charge distribution is defined in terms of the residual charges (qt) at the position r,. The observed molecular dipole moment provides useful information about the charge distribution of the ground state and its ionic character. 

The calculations so far have been concerned with the permanent charge distribution which the molecule would have when isolated, and which would be observed in its dipole moment. The factor that actually determines the orientation of the entering group, however, is the charge distribution at the instant of attack, which differs from the permanent charge distribution in consequence of polarization by the entering group. In most cases it is not necessary to take this latter effect into account explicitly, since it represents only a small correction. However, in certain cases it is apparently of decisive importance.7... 

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