Moller-Plesset Second Order Perturbation

It has been shown that the reaction path from the pyran to the most stable open form involved a two-step mechanism through a cis open form (Figure 1). The first step of this mechanism (transition state TS1) is the rate-limiting step, with a barrier of 138 kJmol-1 at the Hartree-Fock 6-31G(d) level, corrected to 92kJmol-1 with Moller-Plesset second-order perturbation theory. This value is in agreement with experimental measurements of the activation energy of the ring... 

MP2 Moller-Plesset second-order perturbation theory... 

Gao et al. [27] published an extensive study, at the Hartree-Fock (HF) level, which included geometry optimization with 6-31G(d) basis and correlation treatment using the Moller-Plesset second-order perturbation theory (MP2) in the valence space. Siggel et al. [28a] calculated gas-phase acidities for methane and formic acid at the MP4/6-31 -I- G(d) level and for several other compounds at lower levels of theory (HF with 3-21 -I- G and 6-311 -I- G basis sets). All these calculations provide gas-phase acidity values that systematically differ from the experimental values. Nevertheless, the results show good linear correlation with the experimental data. 

Localized Moller-Plesset second-order perturbation (L-MP2) theory, algorithm of Pulay and Saebo [45] as found in Murphy et al. [46], which scales as n N, where n is the number of occupied orbitals and N the size of the basis set. 

The above simple analysis now elucidates how small contributions from 4,- and la are essentially suppressed in the [2] and Afjj p[2] indices. As a rule, these small contributions appear mainly from dynamical correlations. Eor instance, MP2 (the Moller-Plesset second-order perturbation theory) normally produce the contributions of this kind. Evidently, they have no direct relation to diradicahty and polyradicality, and the [2] and Ajj p[2] indices should be rather small without a significant contribution from non-dynamical correlation. This is a good property of the generalized indices such as (6.94) and (C8), and apparently, this is the basic reason why [2] is systematically employed in papers [9, 11, 122, 124] for analyzing the unpaired electrons in large PAHs. At the same time, the dynamical correlation cannot fully ignored, and the problem of an optimal quantification... 

The Moller-Plesset second-order perturbation theory (MP/2) is comparatively simple because only matrix elements of the form Po v 0 ) need to be calculated, while in third order there are already matrix elements of type V 0 (as in a Cl calculation). There are many more of these matrix elements (even for an atomic basis of middle quality there are many more virtual than occupied bands) than those corresponding to excitations between the ground state and the different doubly excited states. 

Semiempirical calculations were carried out in the MNDO approximation in the AMI parameterization [10]. Ab initio calculations were carried out using a split-valence basis set 6-3IG with ihe d-polarization function for all atoms [11]. The electron correlation was considered by using the Moller-Plesset second order perturbation theory with a frozen skeleton of electrons (frozen core, FC) [13]. 

Moller-Plesset second-order perturbation theory (MP2) is a common method used in computational chemistry to include electron correlation as an extension to Hartree-Fock (HF) theory which neglects Coulomb correlation and thus also misses all dispersion effects. The perturbation is the difference between the Fock-operator and the exact electronic Hamiltonian. 

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