Hartree-Fock energy surfaces

The portion of the surface for the HeH+-H2 system calculated by Benson and McLaughlin,104 and referred to above, lies within the range of H-H separations found by Kutzelnigg et a/.105 to be adequately described at the Hartree-Fock limit. Their Hartree-Fock SCF results should, therefore, be accurate enough to warrant their use in classical trajectory calculations. Such calculations have indeed been performed by McLaughlin and Thompson.111 Spline interpolation functions were used to express the tabular near-Hartree-Fock energies in analytical form. The trajectory calculations for the reaction... 

Bader, Novaro, and Beltran-Lopez135 have calculated the potential surface for various geometries of three and four helium atoms near to the Hartree-Fock limit to determine the deviation of the Hartree-Fock energies of interaction from pair-wise additivity. 

Lelj, F., C. Adamo, and V. Barone. 1994. Role of Hartree-Fock exchange in density functional theory. Some aspects of the conformational potential energy surface of glycine in the gas phase. Chem. Phys. Lett. 230, 189. 

A theoretical study based on PM3 frontier molecular orbital (FMO) and potential energy surface (PES) analysis at the restricted Hartree-Fock (RHF)/6-31+G level was performed to examine the reaction of l-amino-2-ethoxycarbonyl-pyridinium mesitylenesulfonate and acrylonitrile in the presence of Hilnig s base leading to the formation of l,2-dihydropyrido[l,2-A]pyridazinium inner salt 17 <1999JOC9001>. The calculations indicated that both the [3+2] cycloaddition reaction and the ring expansion occurred in a concerted manner rather than through a stepwise mechanism via a zwitterionic intermediate 16 (Scheme 1). 

The presence or absence of a homoaromatic interaction is often based solely on the distance between the non-bonded atoms. Distances greatly over 2.0 A are thought to lead to a p-p overlap that is too small to make any significant contribution. This simplistic approach is not necessarily reliable as shown by Cremer et al. (1991). Their calculations on the homotropylium cation [12] indicate a double-minimum potential energy surface with respect to variations of the C(l)-C(7) distance at the Hartree-Fock level of theory. At the MP4(SDQ) level of theory, only a single-minimum curve was found with the minimum at 2.03 A. The calculated potential energy curves are quite flat in this region. 

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