MINDO Overlap

There are three modihed intermediate neglect of differential overlap (MINDO) methods MINDO/1, MINDO/2, and MINDO/3. The MINDO/3 method is by far the most reliable of these. This method has yielded qualitative results for organic molecules. However its use today has been superseded by that of more accurate methods such as Austin model 1 (AMI) and parameterization method 3 (PM3). MINDO/3 is still sometimes used to obtain an initial guess for ah initio calculations. 

MINDO (modified intermediate neglect of differential overlap) a semiempirical method... 

The two-center one-electron integral Hj y, sometimes called the resonance integral, is approximated in MINDO/3 by using the overlap integral, Sj y, in a related but slightly different manner to... 

I am conscious that I have missed many sets of acronyms from my guided tour of the differential overlap models, and I will just tell you that MINDO, MINDO/1, MINDO/2 all appeared but have now been consigned to oblivion. With MINDO/3, Dewar thought that he had at last developed a reliable model for use by organic chemists. The abstract to the landmark MINDO/3 paper is terse ... 

Modified Intermediate Neglect of Differential Overlap (MINDO)... 

Three versions of Modified Intermediate Neglect of Differential Overlap (MINDO) models exist, MINDO/1, MINDO/2 and MINDO/3. The first two attempts at parameterizing INDO gave quite poor results, but MINDO/3, introduced in 1975, produced the first general purpose quantum chemical method which could successfully... 

The second philosophy holds that one should seek agreement with experiment. Therefore the parameters in this case implicitly include some correlation effects. Examples of this approach are MINDO/3 (Bingham et al., 1975) and MNDO (Dewar and Thiel, 1977). [In all of these techniques, C stands for complete, I for intermediate, N for neglect, and DO for differential (diatomic differential in MNDO) overlap differential overlap is the overlap between different orbitals on the same or different atoms.]... 

This new model f6), called MNDO for Modified Neglect of Diatomic Overlap, was published oy Dewar and Thiel in 1977. With MNDO the average errors (5) for the same survey of C, H, N and O molecules decreased to 6.3 kcal/mol for AHf, 0.014 A for bond lengths and 0.48 eV for ionization potentials. Since MNDO used only atomic parameters, parameterization of MNDO to include additional elements was much easier than with MINDO/3, and, over the next eight years, parameters were optimized for 16 elements in addition to C, H, N and O. 

Modified intermediate neglect of differential overlap (MINDO/3) and modified neglect of differential overlap (MNDO) methods with full geometry optimization calculate triazol[4,5-, [l,2,3]triazole to possess antiaromatic structure with C h symmetry but not 1)2,5. In contrast, the aromatic structure with 1)2,5 symmetry is found advantageous for the 2,5-dioxide derivative <1991IZV1825>. 

A variety of more advanced, all-electron methods of this type Me available, and are generally referred to as semi-empirical calculations. The acronyms used to name the individual methods are descriptive of the manner in which atomic overlap calculations are performed. Among the more widely used semi-empirical methods are those of complete neglect of differential overlap (CNDO/2) (12), modified intermediate neglect of differential overlap (MINDO/3) (13), and modified neglect of diatomic overlap (MNDO) (14). 

The complexity of the parameter-fitting procedure in the MINDO models can only be appreciated by a detailed study of the inherent assumptions. It is perhaps indicative to say the only molecular integral that is calculated exactly from the basis atomic orbitals is the overlap integral, all others being approximated or given empirical values. The repulsion potential of the atomic cores is, for example, one of the critical functions in the theory. There has to the present time been four distinct versions of the MINDO parameterization, and the latest (MINDO/3) (102) is said to remove certain deficiencies in the earlier versions (such as the prediction that HjO was linear and the underestimation of the strain energies in small ring hydrocarbons). 

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