Electron theory ground state

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Shown above is the energy-level diagram for the n orbitals of benzene, calculated on the basis of Hiickel molecular orbital theory. According to this theory, the total energy of the six n electrons of ground-state benzene is given by... 

Because there are many excellent reviews covering the theory of electronic Eg ground states, the degeneracy of which is lifted by the Jahn-Teller active vibrational Eg mode (Fig. 2) we will present only a short outline of those aspects which are needed in the following chapters. 

As you can see, the computations necessary for these corrections become increasingly complicated as we go to higher-ordei When perturbation theory works well, the relatively little effort required for the first- and second-order corrections accounts for most of the perturbation. We can see that perturbation theory converges fairly quickly for the two electrons in ground state helium because the second-order correction to the energy is much smaller than the first-order correction. Similarly, Fig. 4.10 shows that the first-order, two-electron wavefunction is about 67% Is and about 30% ls 2s with much smaller contributions from other states. 

For two Bom-Oppenlieimer surfaces (the ground state and a single electronic excited state), the total photodissociation cross section for the system to absorb a photon of energy ai, given that it is initially at a state x) with energy can be shown, by simple application of second-order perturbation theory, to be [89]... 

To use direct dynamics for the study of non-adiabatic systems it is necessary to be able to efficiently and accurately calculate electronic wave functions for excited states. In recent years, density functional theory (DFT) has been gaining ground over traditional Hartree-Fock based SCF calculations for the treatment of the ground state of large molecules. Recent advances mean that so-called time-dependent DFT methods are now also being applied to excited states. Even so, at present, the best general methods for the treatment of the photochemistry of polyatomic organic molecules are MCSCF methods, of which the CASSCF method is particularly powerful. 

The premise behind DFT is that the energy of a molecule can be determined from the electron density instead of a wave function. This theory originated with a theorem by Hoenburg and Kohn that stated this was possible. The original theorem applied only to finding the ground-state electronic energy of a molecule. A practical application of this theory was developed by Kohn and Sham who formulated a method similar in structure to the Hartree-Fock method. 

The electronic theory provides by these means a description of the influence of substituents upon the distribution of electrons in the ground state of an aromatic molecule as it changes the situation in benzene. It then assumes that an electrophile will react preferentially at positions which are relatively enriched with electrons, providing in this way an isolated molecule theory of reactivity. 

The problem has now become how to solve for the set of molecular orbital expansion coefficients, c. . Hartree-Fock theory takes advantage of the variational principle, which says that for the ground state of any antisymmetric normalized function of the electronic coordinates, which we will denote H, then the expectation value for the energy corresponding to E will always be greater than the energy for the exact wave function ... 

In HF-LCAO theory, the electronic ground state of pyridine is We... 

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