ROHF approximation open-shell

Figure 3. Molecular-orbital diagrams as obtained by the ROHF method. Dashed lines indicate MOs dominated by the metal d-orbitals, the solid lines stand for doubly occupied or virtual ligand orbitals. Orbitals which are close in energy are presented as degenerate the average deviation from degeneracy is approximately 0.01 a.u. In the case of a septet state (S=3), the singly occupied open-shell orbitals come from a separate Fock operator and their orbital energies do not relate to ionization potentials as do the doubly occupied MOs (i.e. Koopmann s approximation). For these reasons, the open-shell orbitals appear well below the doubly occupied metal orbitals. Doubly occupying these gives rise to excited states, see text.

All the calculations of F2 are carried out with a simple basis set of double-zeta polarization type, the standard 6-31G(d) basis set, and are performed at a fixed interatomic distance of 1.44 A, which is approximately the optimized distance for a full Cl calculation in this basis set. Only the corresponding orbitals are referred to as the active orbitals , while the orbitals representing the lone pairs, so-called spectator orbitals , remain doubly occupied in all calculations. A common point to the various VB methods we use, except the VBCI method, is that at the dissociation limit, the methods converge to two F fragments at the restricted-open-shell Hartree Fock (ROHF) level. 

The electronic structure methods are based primarily on two basic approximations (1) Born-Oppenheimer approximation that separates the nuclear motion from the electronic motion, and (2) Independent Particle approximation that allows one to describe the total electronic wavefunction in the form of one electron wavefunc-tions i.e. a Slater determinant [26], Together with electron spin, this is known as the Hartree-Fock (HF) approximation. The HF method can be of three types restricted Hartree-Fock (RHF), unrestricted Hartree-Fock (UHF) and restricted open Hartree-Fock (ROHF). In the RHF method, which is used for the singlet spin system, the same orbital spatial function is used for both electronic spins (a and (3). In the UHF method, electrons with a and (3 spins have different orbital spatial functions. However, this kind of wavefunction treatment yields an error known as spin contamination. In the case of ROHF method, for an open shell system paired electron spins have the same orbital spatial function. One of the shortcomings of the HF method is neglect of explicit electron correlation. Electron correlation is mainly caused by the instantaneous interaction between electrons which is not treated in an explicit way in the HF method. Therefore, several physical phenomena can not be explained using the HF method, for example, the dissociation of molecules. The deficiency of the HF method (RHF) at the dissociation limit of molecules can be partly overcome in the UHF method. However, for a satisfactory result, a method with electron correlation is necessary. 

Typical structures are specified in Table 1 which uses the labelling of carbon atoms in Cjo defined in Fig. 1. The restricted open-shell Hartree-Fock (ROHF) method was used in all geometry optimizations using a minimal basis set of orbitals (STO-3G) [13]. These calculations are therefore exploratory in nature. Here we have chosen to use the standard ab initio ROHF method since it is well-known that the UHF method (as used in the PRDDO approximation [9]) does not give wave functions which are eigenstates of the total spin operator S. The effect of spin contamination on molecular properties is uncertain, particularly if the contamination is high (the... 

The restricted open-shell Hartree-Fock (ROHF) and the unrestricted Hartree Fock Method ( UHF) approximations permit, however, open-shell systems to be described, while maintaining the simplicity of the single-determinant approximation. This is made at the stage of self-consistent electronic-structure calculations. Afterwards, the obtained spin-orbitals can be used to get the correct total spin many-determinant wavefunction and to calculate the corresponding electron energy. 

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