Number of electrons

To arrive at the electronic configuration of an atom the appropriate number of electrons are placed in the orbitals in order of energy, the orbitals of lower energy being filled first (Aufbau principle ), subject to the proviso that for a set of equivalent orbitals - say the three p orbitals in a set - the electrons are placed one... 

Jahn-TeHer effect The Jahn-Teller theorem states that, when any degenerate electronic slate contains a number of electrons such that the degenerate orbitals are not completely filled, the geometry of the species will change so as to produce non-degenerate orbitals. Particularly applied to transition metal compounds where the state is Cu(II)... 

Regardless of how many single-particle wavefiinctions i are available, this number is overwhelmed by the number of n-particle wavefiinctions ( ) (Slater detenninants) that can be constructed from them. For example, if a two-electron system is treated within the Flartree-Fock approximation using 100 basis fiinctions, both of the electrons can be assigned to any of the % obtained m the calculation, resulting in 10,000 two-electron wavefimctions. For water, which has ten electrons, the number of electronic wavefiinctions with equal numbers of a and p spin electrons that can be constructed from 100 single-particle wavefimctions is roughly... 

The index for the orbital ( ). (r) can be taken to include the spin of the electron plus any other relevant quantum numbers. The index runs over the number of electrons, each electron being assigned a unique set of quantum... 

One can detennine the total number of electrons in the system by integrating the density of states up to the highest occupied energy level. The energy of the highest occupied state is called the Eermi level or Eermi energy, E ... 

These moments are related to many physical properties. The Thomas-Kulm-Reiche sum rule says that. S (0) equals the number of electrons in the molecule. Other sum rules [36] relate S(2),, S (1) and. S (-l) to ground state expectation values. The mean static dipole polarizability is md = e-S(-2)/m,.J Q Cauchy expansion... 

Because p(r) is spherically syimnetric, the number of electrons in this volume element is p(r),di. Letting v = Or cos a, da = -dxJ(Qr sina). Then, making all substitutions. 

Shifts can also be predicted ftom basic theory, using higher levels of computation, if the molecular structure is precisely known [16], The best calculations, on relatively small molecules, vary from observation by little more than the variations in shift caused by changes in solvent. In all cases, it is harder to predict the shifts of less coimnon nuclei, because of the generally greater number of electrons in the atom, and also because fewer shift examples are available. 

The need for such large CSF expansions should not be surprising considering (i) that each electron pair requires at least two CSFs to fomi polarized orbital pairs, (ii) there are of the order of N N - 1 )/2 = X electron pairs for N electrons, hence (iii) the number of temis in the Cl wavefiinction scales as 1. For a molecule containing ten electrons, there could be 2 =3.5x10 temis in the Cl expansion. This may be an overestimate of the number of CSFs needed, but it demonstrates how rapidly the number of CSFs can grow with the number of electrons. 

As larger atomic basis sets are employed, the size of the CSF list used to treat a dynamic correlation increases rapidly. For example, many of the above methods use singly- and doubly-excited CSFs for this purpose. For large basis sets, the number of such CSFs (N ) scales as the number of electrons squared uptimes the number... 

The localized nature of the atomic basis set makes it possible to implement a linear-scaling TB algoritluu, i.e. a TB method that scales linearly with the number of electrons simulated [17]. (For more infonnation on linear scaling methods, see section B3.2.3.3.)... 

Finally, semi-classical approaches to non-adiabatic dynamics have also been fomuilated and siiccessfLilly applied [167. 181]. In an especially transparent version of these approaches [167], one employs a mathematical trick which converts the non-adiabatic surfaces to a set of coupled oscillators the number of oscillators is the same as the number of electronic states. This mediod is also quite accurate, except drat the number of required trajectories grows with time, as in any semi-classical approach. 

Stabilizing resonances also occur in other systems. Some well-known ones are the allyl radical and square cyclobutadiene. It has been shown that in these cases, the ground-state wave function is constructed from the out-of-phase combination of the two components [24,30]. In Section HI, it is shown that this is also a necessary result of Pauli s principle and the permutational symmetry of the polyelectronic wave function When the number of electron pairs exchanged in a two-state system is even, the ground state is the out-of-phase combination [28]. Three electrons may be considered as two electron pairs, one of which is half-populated. When both electron pahs are fully populated, an antiaromatic system arises ("Section HI). 

By using the determinant fomi of the electronic wave functions, it is readily shown that a phase-inverting reaction is one in which an even number of election pairs are exchanged, while in a phase-preserving reaction, an odd number of electron pairs are exchanged. This holds for Htickel-type reactions, and is demonstrated in Appendix A. For a definition of Hilckel and Mbbius-type reactions, see Section III. 

The concept of phase change in chemical reactions, was introduced in Section I, where it was shown that it is related to the number of electron pairs exchanged in the course of a reaction. In every chemical reaction, the fundamental law to be observed is the preservation pemiutational symmetry of... 

A more general classification considers the phase of the total electronic wave function [13]. We have treated the case of cyclic polyenes in detail [28,48,49] and showed that for Hiickel systems the ground state may be considered as the combination of two Kekule structures. If the number of electron pairs in the system is odd, the ground state is the in-phase combination, and the system is aromatic. If the number of electron pairs is even (as in cyclobutadiene, pentalene, etc.), the ground state is the out-of-phase combination, and the system is antiaromatic. These ideas are in line with previous work on specific systems [40,50]. 

We term the in-phase combination an aromatic transition state (ATS) and the out-of-phase combination an antiaromatic transition state (AATS). An ATS is obtained when an odd number of electron pairs are re-paired in the reaction, and an AATS, when an even number is re-paired. In the context of reactions, a system in which an odd number of electrons (3, 5,...) are exchanged is treated in the same way—one of the electron pairs may contain a single electron. Thus, a three-electron system reacts as a four-electron one, a five-electron system as a six-electron one, and so on. 

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