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For hydrogen fluoride, which is well described by a single Lewis structure (cf. Example 1.6), the localized natural Lewis-structure model wavefunction gives... 

In this case the energy of the natural Lewis-structure model... 

Figure 2.4 Components of the Li-F potential-energy curve E R) = E (R) + E(NL>(R), showing the localized natural-Lewis-structure model energy E(L> (circles, left-hand scale) and delocalized non-Lewis correction ,(NL) (squares, right-hand scale). The classical electrostatic estimate E (dotted line) is shown for comparison.

Table 3.1 compares key bonding and ionicity descriptors for the NBO Lewis-structure representations of the five AF diatomic fluorides in this series. From this table it can be seen that the single-term natural Lewis-structure description is practically exact for all species (with %p 99.9% for A = F, Cl, Br, H, and only a... 

As described in Sections 1.4 and 1.5, a general fia— 2b donor-acceptor interaction between Lewis ( 2a) and non-Lewis (fib ) NBOs leads to perturbative corrections to the zeroth-order natural Lewis-structure wavefunction... 

Let us first inquire whether basic criteria for the validity of low-order perturbation theory are actually satisfied in the present case. As described in Section 1.4, the perturbative starting point is an idealized natural Lewis-structure wavefunction (t//,l )) of doubly occupied NBOs. The accuracy of this Lewis-type starting point may be assessed in terms of the percentage accuracy of the variational energy (E) or density (p(l ). as shown for each molecule in Table 3.20. 

It must be emphasized that the formulation of three-center T-bonds provides a qualitative (not merely incremental) improvement in the accuracy of the natural Lewis-structure description of diborane. Because a three-center orbital is intrinsically more mathematically flexible than a two-center orbital, the description of any molecule is seemingly improved by employing three-center in place of two-center NBOs. However, for most non-boron molecules this improvement would be quite negligible (e.g., less than 0.1% for ethane, whose two-center Lewis-structure... 

The aptness of the idealized sd/J Lewis-like model is also confirmed by the quantitative NBO descriptors, as summarized inTable4.5. This table displays the overall accuracy of the Lewis-like description (in terms of %pl, the percentage accuracy of the natural Lewis-like wavefunction for both valence-shell and total electron density) as well as the metal hybridization (hM), bond polarity toward M (100cm2), and... 

Figure 4.23 Variations of metal-metal bond length with nominal formal bond order (the number of bonds in the natural Lewis structure) in duodectet-rule-conforming dinuclear hydrides H MMH (see Table 4.15).

Table 4.36. The NBO descriptors o/ M2H2 species (see Fig. 4.57) namely the accuracy of the natural Lewis structure (%/+). metal charge (Qu), metal hybrid (hM), percentage polarization toward metal (%m), and occupancies (Occ.) of two-center bonds and antibonds...

Electron donation from the l7tg orbital of the C02 to a metal should result in classical Lewis acid/Lewis base complexes. The poor natural Lewis basicity of C02 usually requires the additional presence of an electron donating group (E) for stable complex formation, e.g. equation (12). In such molecules the integrity of the C02 is lost and such complexes are to be found elsewhere in this publication. 

Sugar nucleotides 1-3 were found to act as donors for the a(l- 4)FucT. Their relative rates of reaction were estimated using a novel spectrophotometric coupled enzyme assay (22) which correlated the rate of production of GDP (equation I) with the rate of glycosyl transfer. The results, presented in Figure 3, show that 3-deoxy-L-fucose and D-arabinose were transferred at 1.7 and 6.0%, respectively, of the rate for L-fucose. The structures of the products were identified by an ELISA assay and scaled-up reactions ( 2 mg) allowed the product trisaccharides to be characterized by NMR (22)- 7 he natural Lewis-a trisaccharide determinant as well as two of its analogs could thus be prepared enzymatically. 

The catalyst surface may contain acid and base sites that can interact together. On a certain surfaces the acid or base behaviour may prevail even if both sites are always present. In a catalyst characterisation, it is very useful to define the nature (Lewis or Bronsted, see par. 4.3) of these sites, their density, location, distribution and strength. Generally, an acid site is defined as a site that can react with a base and, on the contrary, a base site is one that can react with an acid. The above information (acid-base sites density) can be obtained by performing a chemisorption measurement using an acid (such as CO2, SO2) or base gas (such as dry ammonia) while their strength could be measured by temperature programmed techniques (desorption). 

Since Lewis-type NBOs typically have (slightly) less than double occupancy, they are not yet true molecular orbitals in the Hartree-Fock sense. Equivalently, one may say that a determinant of doubly-occupied NBOs, the natural Lewis structure wavefunction "Pl = det (cTAB) (crcD) I must have higher energy than the Hartree-Fock MO wavefunction... 

In a ZSM-5 zeolite (Si/Al = 19), a thermal treatment at high temperatures leads to condensation of two OH groups (representative of two protons) to form a Lewis site. Changes in pre-treatment temperature modify the differential heat curve and thus allow identification of the nature (Lewis or Bronsted) of acid sites. Figure 9.8 presents the acidity spectra (the values of dua/dq ratios) obtained for the adsorption... 

In this chapter, we illustrate how to obtain the optimal natural Lewis stmcture (NLS) formulation of the wavefunction in terms of optimal NBOs for shared pairs (bonds) and lone pairs of the conventional Lewis stmctural dot diagram. We also describe how to assess the accuracy of the NLS representation, comparing it with alternative Lewis stmctural formulations (alternative resonance stmctures ) that might be suggested. In Sections 4.1. 2, we first consider the relatively simple closed-shell molecules such as HF, CH3OH, or H2NCHO that conform to the octet mle. The... 

What would the world be like if the Lewis structure picture were exact, and resonance effects were absent Such a world without resonance is the essential defining characteristic of the Natural Lewis Structure wavefunction a well-defined starting point for the systematic NBO-based exploration of chemical behavior. 

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