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A simple way to connect Eq.(27) with a density functional approach is to make the exchange term a functional of TOP). Thus, integrating Eq.(27) and summing the orbital energies, it is not difficult to see that the energy appears as a functional of a density T such that the integral over the whole space available is equal to 2N. The solvent is in... 

The 7t-orbital is the HOMO and the 71 the LUMO. Notice that the coefficients of the orbitals are unequal, since nitrogen is more electronegative than carbon, and that the magnitude of the coefficients alternates from HOMO to LUMO. We may now imagine a water molecule approaching the imine. On the basis of orbital symmetry rules, the important interactions could be the LUMO of the water with the HOMO of the imine, or the HOMO of the water with the LUMO of the imine. This selectivity is on the basis of better matching of orbital energies. It is commonly found that the important interaction is that of the HOMO of the nucleophile with the LUMO of the electrophile (Fig. 2-28). The... 

In addition, since the energy of the QC determinant is given by the sum of orbital energies, its energy becomes then zero ... 

The primary experimental data obtained from PE spectra are ionization energies and it is the well-known Koopmans approximation which relates ionization energies to orbital energies. It states that the ith ionization energy is given by the negative of the ith SCF... 

The main peaks in X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) for molecules appear because of the photoionization of core electrons. In addition, satellite peaks on the high binding energy side of the main peak have often been observed. These peaks are generally referred to as shakeup satellite peaks. In the sudden approximation, the shakeup process which accompanies photoionization can be considered as a two-step process. First, a core electron is emitted as a photoelectron, creating an inner shell vacancy. In the next step, electron(s) in the same molecule transfer from valence orbital(s) to unoccupied orbital(s) with relaxation of orbital energies. It is important to study these satellites in order to understand the valence and excited states of molecules (1). 

Since all of the above calculations are strongly dependent on orbital energies, it is worthwhile to close with a short comparison of orbital energies, as calculated by HF and by DFT, and as measured experimentally by ESCA and photoelectron spectroscopy. These are shown in Table 2.8. Both the HF and KS orbital energies are quite close to the experimental ionization potentials. In principle, the KS energy for the outermost orbital should equal the first ionization potential, but this has not yet happened. It will be recalled that the KS results depend on how well the exchange-correlation potential is represented. " ... 

The same approach as the above has been applied to atoms and some very simple molecules.The difference in /z is approximated by (e — s), where e is the local orbital energy. It was found that good results were obtained if it was assumed that rj = ((/ + Ve)), where t is the local one-electron kinetic energy and Ve is the electron repulsion potential. Such an assumption can only be partially justified. 

Janak s theorem (Janak 1978) is also one of the most significant theorems having to do with orbital energy. It is noteworthy that the Janak theorem is established not only for the Kohn-Sham and Hartree-Fock equations but also for overall one-electron SCF equations in the form of Eq. (4.7). Let us consider the Kohn-Sham equation in Eqs. (4.6) and (4.10). Introducing the occupation numbers of orbitals, ,, the Kohn-Sham equation is written as... 

The second term on the right-hand side is equal to the electron-electron repulsion energy When we calculate the energy the according to equation (2.19) electron-electron repulsion is included once when we add the two orbital energies it is counted twice. 

One may add any constant to the potential since this will just lead to an overall up- or downwards shift of all orbital energies. It has therefore been suggested (see also refs. 73-75) that the exchange-correlation potential should obey... 

Now that we have a method that provides us with orbitals and orbital energies, it should be possible to get information about the way the rr-electron charge is distributed in the system by squaring the total wavefunction xlr . In the case of the neutral allyl radical,... 

It should of course be remembered that all orbitals are here assumed to be solutions of the usual SCF equations (Section 6.2) for the unperturbed system and are assumed to the corresponding occupied and virtual orbital energies. It is not in fact essential that canonical SCF orbitals be used in any of the preceding derivations, and it is sometimes useful to employ, for example, more localized linear combinations but the modified equations are easily obtained (Problem 12.9). 

A recent paper [133] is an extension of earlier work [131] and describes the implementation of the SAPT(DFT) version without the coupled Kohn-Sham dispersion energies. Since this version is based only on Kohn-Sham orbitals and orbital energies, it is called SAPT(KS). In addition to the He2 and (H20)2... 

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