Orbitals, occupied models

Molecular Orbital Theory Model. Oxygen and hydrogen atoms in H2O are held together by a covalent bond. According to the quantum molecular orbital theory of covalent bonding between atoms, electrons in molecules occupy molecular orbitals that are described, using quantum mechanical language, by a linear combination of... 

Hint Use a low-energy vacant orbital to model the acceptor substituent (for example a K co at a - 0.6/3) and a doubly occupied high-energy orbital to represent the donor (e.g. a nitrogen lone pair at a + 1.5/3). These representative values allow us to see how the energies of the substituent orbitals compare with those in butadiene and ethylene. 

This was developed by Linus Pauling in 1931 and was the first quantum-based model of bonding. It is based on the premise that if the atomic s, p, and d orbitals occupied by the valence electrons of adjacent atoms are combined in a suitable way, the hybrid orbitals that result will have the character and directional properties that are consistent with the bonding pattern in the molecule. The rules for bringing about these combinations turn out to be remarkably simple, so once they were worked out it became possible to use this model to predict the bonding behavior in a wide variety of molecules. The hybrid orbital model is most usefully applied to the p-block elements the first two rows of the periodic table, and is especially important in organic chemistry see Page 37. 

Molecular orbital (MO) model a model that regards a molecule as a collection of nuclei and electrons, where the electrons are assumed to occupy orbitals much as they do in atoms, but having the orbitals extend over the entire molecule. In this model the electrons are assumed to be delocalized rather than always located between a given pair of atoms. (14.2)... 

A good example is provided by the alkali-metal atoms, which consist of one electron outside a closed-shell core in the single-configuration model. If the frozen-core approximation is valid a frozen-core calculation of the orbital occupied by one electron will give the same result as a Hartree—Fock calculation and the core orbitals will not depend on the state. 

If the Coulomb interaction between electrons of different pairs is ignored, each localized bond and lone pair contribute independently to the total energy, which implies a perfect additivity of bond energies. In the independent-particle model, the localized bond function can be visualized as a two-center molecular orbital occupied by two electrons. Nevertheless, it is possible to reproduce deviations from additivity rules within this scheme, for instance, by taking into account overlap (for a review, see e.g. 2>). 

The structure of ethylene and the orbital hybridization model for the double bond were presented in Section 1.17. To review. Figure 5.1 depicts the planar structure of ethylene, its bond distances, and its bond angles. Each of the carbon atoms is xp -hybridized, and the double bond possesses a o component and a tt component. The o component results when an sp orbital of one carbon, oriented so that its axis lies along the intemuclear axis, overlaps with a similarly disposed sp orbital of the other carbon. Each sp orbital contains one electron, and the resulting a bond contains two of the four electrons of the double bond. The tt bond contributes the other two electrons and is formed by a side-by-side overlap of singly occupied p orbitals of the two carbons. 

FIGURE 17.1 Similarities between the orbital hybridization models of bonding in (a) ethylene and ( >) formaldehyde. Both molecules have the same number of electrons, and carbon Is sp -hybrldlzed in both. In formaldehyde, one of the carbons Is replaced by an sp -hybrldlzed oxygen (shown in red). Oxygen has two unshared electron pairs each pair occupies an sp -hybrldlzed orbital. Like the carbon-carbon double bond of ethylene, the carbon-oxygen double bond of formaldehyde Is composed of a two-electron cr component and a two-electron tr component. 

VB concept of hybridization proposes the mixing of particular combinations of s, p, and d orbitals to give sets of hybrid orbitals, which have specifie geometries. Similarly, for eoordination eompounds, the model proposes that the number and type of metal-ion hybrid orbitals occupied by ligand lone pairs determine the geometry of the complex ion. Let s diseuss the orbital eombinations that lead to octahedral, square planar, and tetrahedral geometries. 

The existence of empty molecular orbitals close in energy to filled molecular orbitals explains the thermal and electrical conductivity of metal crystals. Metals conduct electricity and heat very efficiently because of the availability of highly mobile electrons. For example, when an electric potential is placed across a strip of metal, for current to flow, electrons must be free to move. In the band model for metals, the electrons in partially filled bonds are mobile. These conduction electrons are free to travel throughout the metal crystal as dictated by the potential imposed on the metal. The molecular orbitals occupied by these conducting electrons are called conduction bands. These mobile electrons also account for the efficiency of the conduction of heat through metals. When one end of a metal rod is heated, the mobile electrons can rapidly transmit the thermal energy to the other end. 

Make drawings of atomic orbital models for each of the following compounds. Each drawing should be large and clear with indication of the expected bond angles. Be sure that orbitals occupied by unshared pairs as well as those used by each atom in bond formation are correctly labeled. 

The key feature of our approach is the concept of a formal reference determinant, 0). This determinant is used to generate the complete MRCC wave function by acting on it with an appropriate CC excitation operator. The formal reference determinant, in the case of the ground electronic state, can be the Hartree-Fock determinant. In most cases this determinant has the largest weight in the wave function of the considered state. Moreover, 0) defines the partition of spin-orbital space into occupied and unoccupied orbital subspaces. These orbitals are often referred to as holes and particles, respectively. Hence, the holes correspond to the spin-orbitals occupied in 0) and the particles correspond to the unoccupied orbitals. The formal reference determinant is used to generate all necessary electronically excited configurations in the wave function in the Oliphant-Adamowicz coupled cluster model. The simplest case discussed in the early works of Oliphant and Adamowicz [14-16] is the case of two determinantal reference space ... 

Since orbitals are model dependent, different models will have different orbitals. The basic distinction between DFT fi -orbitals and LFT fi -orbitals arises from their respective treatments of interelectron repulsions. In LFT, d-d repulsion is treated within a spherical approximation. For d and d configurations, there is a single free-ion term and hence no need to consider d-d interelectron repulsion at all. In contrast, the Kohn-Sham orbitals in DFT are computed relative to the total molecular potential. For a tetragonal d copper(II) complex, dx -y is singly occupied while the remaining -functions are doubly occupied. Hence, to a first approximation, the hole in the equatorial plane results in less d-d repulsion in the plane than perpendicular to the plane with the result that the in-plane dxy orbital falls relative to the out-of-plane dxzjdyz pair. 

The repulsion of fully occupied orbitals in model systems received attention in the earliest application of quantum mechanical methods. From those studies an exponential representation of the energy-distance curve was obtained. This functional form has been used extensively in the simulation of both solids and molecular systems. Also derived from early quantum mechanical results were potentials using inverse power repulsive forms (see, e.g.. Refs. 49 and 50). Such potentials have also been employed with success in the simulation of liquids, molecular solids, and ionic systems. 

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