Intermolecular forces electrostatic potential energy surface

Basis set superposition error (BSSE) is a particular problem for supermolecule treatments of intermolecular forces. As two moieties with incomplete basis sets are brought together, there is an unavoidable improvement in the overall quality of the supermolecule basis set, and thus an artificial energy lowering. Various approximate corrections to BSSE are available, with the most widely used being those based on the counterpoise method (CP) proposed by Boys and Bemardi [3]. There are indications that potential energy surfaces corrected via the CP method may not describe correctly the anisotropy of the molecular interactions, and there have been some suggestions of a bias in the description of the electrostatic properties of the monomers (secondary basis set superposition errors). 

Section 10.2 on Intermolecular Forces includes an introduction to electrostatic potential energy maps. We define these surfaces very carefully to provide a solid foundation for our students when they encounter these representations in their organic chemistry courses. 

Between the wall of the cell and any ions (H+, H30+, H502+) forces of supermolecular hydrogen P-bonds and electrostatic y-bonds operate (see Fig. 2). Surfaces of intermolecular potential energy have been calculated by density functional method stated in our paper [6], Necessary data about spatial distributions of electron charge density inside framework of aqua multiparticle had been taken from calculations of aquatic ions and the ring of water (H20)n by using of standard molecular orbital method in the minimal basis set (STO-3G). Results of calculations are shown in Table 1. 

Recently, a new theoretical method of calculating potential energy and dipole/polarizability surfaces for van der Waals molecules based on symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (sapt) of intermolecular forces (12)— (15) has been developed (16)-(24). In this method, referred to as many-body symmetry-adapted perturbation theory, all physically important contributions to the potential and the interaction-induced properties, such as electrostatics, exchange, induction, and dispersion are identified and computed separately. By making a perturbation expansion in the intermolecular interaction as well as in the intramolecular electronic correlation, it is possible to sum the correlation contributions to the different physical... 

This contribution to the total molecule/surface interaction is caused by the Coulomb interaction between the charge distributions of the ionic crystal and the adsorbed molecule or, stated differently, by the potential energy of the adsorbed molecule in the electrostatic field above the solid surface. In the theory of intermolecular forces, this interaction is generally expressed by means of a multipole expansion... 

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