Hartree Fock method, hydrogen bonds

The Hartree-Fock method was in any case the method of choice for the first quantitative calculations related to homogeneous catalysis. It was the method, for instance, on a study of the bonding between manganese and hydride in Mn-H, published in 1973 [28]. The first studies on single steps of catalytic cycles in the early 1980 s used the HF method [29]. And it was also the method applied in the first calculation of a full catalytic cycle, which was the hydrogenation of olefins with the Wilkinson catalyst in 1987 [30]. The limitations of the method were nevertheless soon noticed, and already in the late 1980 s, the importance of electron correlation was being recognized [31]. These approaches will be discussed in detail in the next section. 

Fig. 15. (a) Intramolecular hydrogen bonds in urea crystal with displacement ellipsoids at 50% probability, (b) Static deformation density obtained from the multipolar analysis of the experimental data corrected for the thermal diffuse scattering. Theoretical deformation density obtained using (c) the Hartree-Fock method (d) the DFT method by generalized gradient approximation (contours at 0.0675 eA-3) (reproduced with permission from Zavodnik et al. [69]). 

Tab. 12.1. Total interaction energies Ei of the multiply-hydrogen-bonded complex in Fig. 12.2 in kJ mol. BHLYP is a hybrid density functional which features 50% admixture of exact Hartree-Fock-type exchange, AMI and PM3 are semi-empirical models, which are an efficient approximation to the Hartree-Fock method, and CCSD is a coupled-cluster model.

Thus, comparison of calculation results with experimental data demonstrates ab initio Hartree-Fock method in the 6-3 IG basis set provides qualitatively correct conclusion on hydrogen bond energies for systems considered. This model was applied to investigate the interaction between water and hydroxyfullerene cluster Qo. Hydroxyfullerene is a proper object for quantum-chemical modeling of interaction between activated carbon nanoparticle and water. At the same time hydroxyfullerene is of great interest because of its possible applications in medicine, for water disinfection, and for polishing nanosurfaces. 

Although a wide variety of theoretical methods is available to study weak noncovalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding or dispersion forces between molecules (and/or atoms), this chapter focuses on size consistent electronic structure techniques likely to be employed by researchers new to the field of computational chemistry. Not stuprisingly, the list of popular electronic structure techniques includes the self-consistent field (SCF) Hartree-Fock method as well as popular implementations of density functional theory (DFT). However, correlated wave function theory (WFT) methods are often required to obtain accmate structures and energetics for weakly bound clusters, and the most useful of these WFT techniques tend to be based on many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) (specifically, Moller-Plesset perturbation theory), quadratic configuration interaction (QCI) theory, and coupled-cluster (CC) theory. 

J. M. Cullen, Int. J. Quantum Chem., Quantum Chem. Symp., 25, 193 (1991). An Examination of the Effects of Basis Set and Charge Transfer in Hydrogen-Bonded Dimers with a Constrained Hartree-Fock Method. 

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Most studies concerning pyrimidines originate from biochemical questions. Since these systems are dominated by hydrogen-bonding and/or dispersion contributions, methods beyond the Hartree-Fock level are mandatory. The success of quantum chemical studies in this field is impressive and many effects could be explained on the basis of these theoretical investigations. 

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