Electivity

The critical temperature of methane is 191°K. At 25°C, therefore, the reduced temperature is 1.56. If the dividing line is taken at T/T = 1.8, methane should be considered condensable at temperatures below (about) 70°C and noncondensable at higher temperatures. However, in process design calculations, it is often inconvenient to switch from one method of normalization to the other. In this monograph, since we consider only equilibria at low or moderate pressures in the region 200-600°K, we elect to consider methane as a noncondensable component. 

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Election nuclear dynamics theory is a direct nonadiababc dynamics approach to molecular processes and uses an electi onic basis of atomic orbitals attached to dynamical centers, whose positions and momenta are dynamical variables. Although computationally intensive, this approach is general and has a systematic hierarchy of approximations when applied in an ab initio fashion. It can also be applied with semiempirical treatment of electronic degrees of freedom [4]. It is important to recognize that the reactants in this approach are not forced to follow a certain reaction path but for a given set of initial conditions the entire system evolves in time in a completely dynamical manner dictated by the inteiparbcle interactions. 

These charge-transfer structures have been studied [4] in terms a very limited number of END trajectories to model vibrational induced electron tiansfer. An electronic 3-21G-1- basis for Li [53] and 3-21G for FI [54] was used. The equilibrium structure has the geometry with a long Li(2)—FI bond (3.45561 a.u.) and a short Li(l)—H bond (3.09017 a.u.). It was first established that only the Li—H bond stietching modes will promote election transfer, and then initial conditions were chosen such that the long bond was stretched and the short bond compressed by the same (%) amount. The small ensemble of six trajectories with 5.6, 10, 13, 15, 18, and 20% initial change in equilibrium bond lengths are sufficient to illustrate the approach. 

A simple measure of the election density distribution over the participating atoms is the Mulliken population [60]. For linear Li—H—Li the alpha spin is... 

CASSCF is a version of MCSCF theory in which all possible configurations involving the active orbitals are included. This leads to a number of simplifications, and good convergence properties in the optimization steps. It does, however, lead to an explosion in the number of configurations being included, and calculations are usually limited to 14 elections in 14 active orbitals. 

The separation of nuclear and electronic motion may be accomplished by expanding the total wave function in functions of the election coordinates, r, parametrically dependent on the nuclear coordinates... 

By using the determinant fomi of the electronic wave functions, it is readily shown that a phase-inverting reaction is one in which an even number of election pairs are exchanged, while in a phase-preserving reaction, an odd number of electron pairs are exchanged. This holds for Htickel-type reactions, and is demonstrated in Appendix A. For a definition of Hilckel and Mbbius-type reactions, see Section III. 

Although this reaction appears to involve only two electrons, it was shown by Mulder [57] that in fact two jc and two ct elections are required to account for this system. The three possible spin pairings become clear when it is realized that a pair of carbene radicals are formally involved. Figure 14. In practice, the conical intersection defined by the loop in Figme 14 is high-lying, so that often other conical intersections are more important in ethylene photochemistry. Flydrogen-atom shift products are observed [58]. This topic is further detailed in Section VI. 

Next, we consider one pair of it electrons and one pair of cj elections. The cj electrons may originate from a CH or from a CC bond. Let us consider the loop enclosed by the three anchors formed when the electron pair comes from a C-H bond. There are only three possible pairing options. The hydrogen-atom originally bonded to carbon atom 1, is shifted in one product to carbon atom 2,... 

The exchange of two pairs of a electrons is expected to lead to a high-lying conical intersection that is not likely to be important in the UV photochemistry of CHDN. This winds up the possibilities of loops involving two-election pair exchanges only. 

Consider a molecule consisting of more than three atoms, with an even number of valence elections, 2n (n > 2). The basic assumption of the model is that the... 

This compound, which contains atoms arranged tetrahedrally around the boron atom, can readily be isolated from a mixture of dimethyl ether and boron trichloride. On occasions a chlorine atom, in spite of its high election affinity, will donate an electron pair, an example being found in the dimerisation of gaseous monomeric aluminium chloride to give the more stable Al2Clg in which each aluminium has a tetrahedral configuration ... 

FMO theory requires that a HOMO of one reactant has to be correlated with the LUMO of the other reactant. The decision between the two alternatives - i.e., from which reactant the HOMO should be taken - is made on the basis of which is the smaller energy difference in our case the HOMO of the electron rich diene, 3.1, has to be correlated with the LUMO of the electron-poor dienophile, 3.2. The smaller this HOMO-LUMO gap, the higher the reactivity will be. With the HOMO and LUMO fixed, the orbital coefficients of these two orbitals can explain the regios-electivity of the reaction, which strongly favors the formation of 3.3 over 3.4. 

Spherically symmetric (radial) wave functions depend only on the radial distance r between the nucleus and the election. They are the Is, 2s, 3s. .. orbitals... 

The reason a single equation = ( can describe all real or hypothetical mechanical systems is that the Hamiltonian operator H takes a different form for each new system. There is a limitation that accompanies the generality of the Hamiltonian and the Schroedinger equation We cannot find the exact location of any election, even in simple systems like the hydrogen atom. We must be satisfied with a probability distribution for the electron s whereabouts, governed by a function (1/ called the wave function. 

There is a very convenient way of writing the Hamiltonian operator for atomic and molecular systems. One simply writes a kinetic energy part — for each election and a Coulombic potential Z/r for each interparticle electrostatic interaction. In the Coulombic potential Z is the charge and r is the interparticle distance. The temi Z/r is also an operator signifying multiply by Z r . The sign is - - for repulsion and — for atPaction. 

The sum of two operators is an operator. Thus the Hamiltonian operator for the hydrogen atom has — j as the kinetic energy part owing to its single election plus — 1/r as the electiostatic potential energy part, because the charge on the nucleus is Z = 1, the force is atrtactive, and there is one election at a distance r from the nucleus... 

In the independent particle approximation, the simplifying assumption is made that V i) is an average potential due to a core that consists of the nuclei and all elections other than elechon i... 

It has been known for more than a century that hydrocarbons containing double bonds are more reactive than their counterparts that do not contain double bonds. Alkenes are, in general, more reactive than alkanes. We call electrons in double bonds 71 electrons and those in the much less reactive C—C or CH bonds Huckel theory, we assume that the chemistry of unsaturated hydrocarbons is so dominated by the chemistry of their double bonds that we may separate the Schroedinger equation yet again, into an equation for potential energy. We now have an equation of the same fomi as Eq. (6-8), but one in which the Hamiltonian for all elections is replaced by the Hamiltonian for Ji electrons only... 

In what immediately follows, we will obtain eigenvalues i and 2 for //v / = Ei ) from the simultaneous equation set (6-38). Each eigenvalue gives a n-election energy for the model we used to generate the secular equation set. In the next chapter, we shall apply an additional equation of constr aint on the minimization parameters ai, 2 so as to obtain their unique solution set. 

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