Delocalized electrons combined model

Force fields do not explicitly consider electrons as quantum mechanical methods do. Rather, force fields treat the interactions caused by the electrons through the use of parameterizable functions. However, some force fields (notably Allinger s MMx series ) treat lone pairs of electrons in a molecule as atoms and assign force field parameters to them. Allinger also used Ji-electron calculations in combination with force fields to model systems with delocalized electrons.Therefore, the energy calculated using one of these force fields may contain electronic contributions. 

Metals share several common properties. All metals are opaque (we cannot see through them), and they are good conductors of heat and electricity. They generally have high malleability (the ability to be bent or hammered into desired forms) and ductihty (the ability to be drawn into wires). We can explain these properties by the bonding theories that we have already examined for metals the electron sea model and band theory. In the electron sea model, discussed in Section 9.11, each metal atom within a metal sample donates one or more electrons to an electron sea, which flows within the metal. In band theory, discussed in Section 11.13, the atomic orbitals of the metal atoms are combined, forming bands that are delocalized over the entire crystalline solid electrons move freely within these bands. The mobile electrons in both of these models endow metals with many of their shared properties. 

The model of the chain of hydrogen atoms with a completely delocalized (metallic) type of bonding is outlined in the preceding section. Intuitively, a chemist will find this model rather unreal, as he or she expects the atoms to combine in pairs to give H2 molecules. In other words, the chain of equidistant H atoms is expected to be unstable, so it undergoes a distortion in such a way that the atoms approach each other in pairs. This process is called Peierls distortion (or strong electron-phonon coupling) in solid-state physics ... 

All models of this type have become known colloquially by the misnomer free-particle model. Diverse objects with formal resemblance to chemical systems are included here, such as an electron in an impenetrable sphere to model activated atoms particle on a line segment to model delocalized systems particle interacting with finite barriers to simulate tunnel effects particle interacting with periodic potentials to simulate electrons in solids, and combinations of these. 

The formation and transport properties of a large polaron in DNA are discussed in detail by Conwell in a separate chapter of this volume. Further information about the competition of quantum charge delocalization and their localization due to solvation forces can be found in Sect. 10.1. In Sect. 10.1 we also compare a theoretical description of localization/delocalization processes with an approach used to study large polaron formation. Here we focus on the theoretical framework appropriate for analysis of the influence of solvent polarization on charge transport. A convenient method to treat this effect is based on the combination of a tight-binding model for electronic motion and linear response theory for polarization of the water surroundings. To be more specific, let us consider a sequence... 

The photochemically generated cyclopentane-1,3-diyl diradials (87) were part of a study of spin delocalization through the EPR Z)-paramctcr. These biradicals were a model system for cumyl and benzyl radicals and experimental data were combined with MO calculations to map the electronic effects on D by varying the aromatic substituent (Ar = heterocycle).218 This parameter was also measured for a related series of... 

Many ferromagnets are metals or metallic alloys with delocalized bands and require specialized models that explain the spontaneous magnetization below Tc or the paramagnetic susceptibility for T > Tc. The Stoner-Wohlfarth model,6 for example, explains these observed magnetic parameters of d metals as by a formation of excess spin density as a function of energy reduction due to electron spin correlation and dependent on the density of states at the Fermi level. However, a unified model that combines explanations for both electron spin correlations and electron transport properties as predicted by band theory is still lacking today. 

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