Closed shells

The Hiickel description of aromaticity was based in part on benzene, a cyclic fully conjugated hydrocarbon having (4n -l- 2) -electrons (ff = I) in the closed shell (ring). 

Kim Y S, Kim S K and Lee W D 1981 Dependence of the closed-shell repulsive interaction on the overlap of the electron densities Chem. Phys. Lett. 80 574... 

Pyykko P 1997 Strong closed-shell interactions in inorganic chemistry Chem. Rev. 97 597 A review of fertile ground for fiittlier research. 

Bartlett R J and Silver D M 1975 Many-body perturbation theory applied to eleetron pair eorrelation energies I. Closed-shell first-row diatomie hydrides J. Chem. Rhys. 62 3258-68... 

The basic self-consistent field (SCF) procedure, i.e., repeated diagonalization of the Fock matrix [26], can be viewed, if sufficiently converged, as local optimization with a fixed, approximate Hessian, i.e., as simple relaxation. To show this, let us consider the closed-shell case and restrict ourselves to real orbitals. The SCF orbital coefficients are not the... 

Due to the large number of variables in wavefiinction optimization problems, it may appear that fiill second-order methods are impractical. For example, the storage of the Hessian for a modest closed-shell wavefiinction with 500... 

Bacskay G B 1981 A quadratically convergent Hartree-Fock (QC-SCF) method. Applications to the closed-shell case Chem. Phys. 61 385... 

Figure Cl. 1.2. (a) Mass spectmm of sodium clusters (Na ), N= 4-75. The inset corresponds to A = 75-100. Note tire more abundant clusters at A = 8, 20, 40, 58, and 92. (b) Calculated relative electronic stability, A(A + 1) - A(A0 versus N using tire spherical electron shell model. The closed shell orbitals are labelled, which correspond to tire more abundant clusters observed in tire mass spectmm. Knight W D, Clemenger K, de Heer W A, Saunders W A, Chou M Y and Cohen ML 1984 Phys. Rev. Lett. 52 2141, figure 1.

One can note some interesting features from these trajectories. For example, the Mulliken population on the participating atoms in Figure 1 show that the departing deuterium canies a full electron. Also, the deuterium transferred to the NHj undergoes an initial substantial bond stretch with the up spin and down spin populations separating so that the system temporarily looks like a biradical before it settles into a normal closed-shell behavior. 

Electron density represents the probability of finding an electron at a poin t in space. It is calcii lated from th e elements of th e den sity matrix. The total electron density is the sum of the densities for alpha and beta electrons. In a closed-shell RUE calculation, electron densities are the same for alpha and beta electrons. 

Total spin den sity reflects th e excess probability of fin din g a versus P electrons in an open-shell system. Tor a system m which the a electron density is equal to the P electron density (for example, a closed-shell system), the spin density is zero. 

Choose LHH(spin Unrestricted Hartree-Fock) or RHF (spin Restricted Ilartree-Fock) calculations according to your molecular system. HyperChem supports UHF for both open-sh el I and closed-shell calcii lation s an d RHF for cUised-shell calculation s on ly, Th e closed-shell LHFcalculation may be useful for studyin g dissociation of m olectilar system s. ROHF(spin Restricted Open-shell Hartree-Fock) is not supported in the current version of HyperChem (for ah initio calculations). 

To define the state yon want to calculate, you must specify the m u Itiplicity. A system with an even ii n m ber of electron s n sn ally has a closed-shell ground state with a multiplicity of I (a singlet). Asystem with an odd niim her of electrons (free radical) nsnally has a multiplicity of 2 (a doublet). The first excited state of a system with an even ii nm ber of electron s usually has a m n Itiplicity of 3 (a triplet). The states of a given m iiltiplicity have a spectrum of states —the lowest state of the given multiplicity, the next lowest state of the given multiplicity, and so on. 

You can order the molecular orbitals that arc a solution to etjtia-tion (47) accordin g to th eir en ergy, Klectron s popii late the orbitals, with the lowest energy orbitals first. normal, closed-shell, Restricted Hartree hock (RHK) description has a nia.xirnuin of Lw o electrons in each molecular orbital, one with electron spin up and one w ith electron spin down, as sliowm ... 

I he Koothaan equations just described are strictly the equations fora closed-shell Restricted Hartrce-Fock fRHK) description only, as illustrated by the orbital energy level diagram shown earlier. To be more specific ... 

A closed-shell means that every occupied molecular orbital contains exactly two electrons. 

IlyperChcm semi-empirical methods usually let you request a calculation on the lowest energy stale of a given multiplicity or the next lowest state of a given spin m ultipliriiy. Sin ce m osl m olecu les with an even num her of electron s are closed-shell singlets without... 

Closed-shell Systems and the Roothaan-Hall Equations... 

We shall initially consider a closed-shell system with N electroris in N/2 orbitals. The derivation of the Hartree-Fock equations for such a system was first proposed by Roothaan [Roothaan 1951] and (independently) by Hall [Hall 1951]. The resulting equations are known as the Roothaan equations or the Roothaan-Hall equations. Unlike the integro-differential form of the Hartree-Fock equations. Equation (2.124), Roothaan and Hall recast the equations in matrix form, which can be solved using standard techniques and can be applied to systems of any geometry. We shall identify the major steps in the Roothaan approach. 

The Fock matrix elements for a closed-shell system can be expanded as follows by substituting the expression for the Fock operator ... 

P is the total spinless density matrix (P = P + P ) and P is the spin density matrix (P = p" + P ). For a closed-shell system Mayer s definition of the bond order reduces to ... 

In a closed-shell system, P = P) = P and the Fock matrix elements can be obtained by making this substitution. If a basis set containing s, p orbitals is used, then many of the one-centre integrals nominally included in INDO are equal to zero, as are the core elements Specifically, only the following one-centre, two-electron integrals are non-zero (/x/x /x/x), (pit w) and (fti/lfM/). The elements of the Fock matrix that are affected can then be written a." Uxllow s ... 

I he results of their calculations were summarised in two rules. The first rule states that at least one isomer C with a properly closed p shell (i.e. bonding HOMO, antibonding I. U.MO) exists for all n = 60 - - 6k (k = 0,2,3,..., but not 1). Thus Qg, C72, Cyg, etc., are in lhi-< group. The second rule is for carbon cylinders and states that a closed-shell structure is lound for n = 2p(7 - - 3fc) (for all k). C70 is the parent of this family. The calculations Were extended to cover different types of structure and fullerenes doped with metals. 

The sum of the zeroth-order and first-order energies thus corresponds to the Hartree-Fock energy (compare with Equation (2.110), which gives the equivalent result for a closed-shell system) ... 

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