Self-consistent field for molecular

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Coulson, C. A., Proc. Cambridge Phil. Soc. 34, 204, "Self-consistent field for molecular hydrogen." Best possible molecular orbitals. 

In this paper a method [11], which allows for an a priori BSSE removal at the SCF level, is for the first time applied to interaction densities studies. This computational protocol which has been called SCF-MI (Self-Consistent Field for Molecular Interactions) to highlight its relationship to the standard Roothaan equations and its special usefulness in the evaluation of molecular interactions, has recently been successfully used [11-13] for evaluating Eint in a number of intermolecular complexes. Comparison of standard SCF interaction densities with those obtained from the SCF-MI approach should shed light on the effects of BSSE removal. Such effects may then be compared with those deriving from the introduction of Coulomb correlation corrections. To this aim, we adopt a variational perturbative valence bond (VB) approach that uses orbitals derived from the SCF-MI step and thus maintains a BSSE-free picture. Finally, no bias should be introduced in our study by the particular approach chosen to analyze the observed charge density rearrangements. Therefore, not a model but a theory which is firmly rooted in Quantum Mechanics, applied directly to the electron density p and giving quantitative answers, is to be adopted. Bader s Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules (QTAM) [14, 15] meets nicely all these requirements. Such a theory has also been recently applied to molecular crystals as a valid tool to rationalize and quantitatively detect crystal field effects on the molecular densities [16-18]. 

We have already presented [17,18] the SCF-Ml (Self Consistent Field for Molecular Interactions) method, based on the idea that BSSE can be avoided a priori provided the MOs of each fragment are expanded only using basis functions located on each subsystem. In the present work we propose a multiconfiguration extension (MCSCF-MI) of the same technique, particularly suited to deal with systems for which proton transfer processes must be considered. 

Roothaan equations have been modified in a previous work with the aim of avoiding BSSE at the Hartree-Fock level of theory. The resulting scheme, called SCF-MI (Self Consistent Field for Molecular Interactions), underlines its special usefulness for the computation of intermolecular interactions. 

SCF-MI (Self Consistent Field for Molecular Interactions) and non orthogonal Cl were used to determine a water-water interaction potential, from which BSSE is excluded in an a priori fashion. The new potential has been employed in molecular dynamics simulation of liquid water at 25°C. The simulations were performed using MOTECC suite of programs. The results were compared with experimental data for water in the liquid phase, and good accordance was found, both in radial distribution functions and thermodynamic properties, as well as in geometric parameters. 

In the hands of Lipscomb and others 76,143, 145a, 153,189, 190), such localized bond schemes, particularly when obtained via self-consistent field (SCF) molecular orbital (MO) treatments, have proved particularly valuable for rationalizing the shapes and interatomic distances and estimating the charge distribution in many higher boranes. 

The somewhat arbitrary use of the auxiliary inductive parameter in the Hiickel MO calculations has been questioned and the effect of the nonuniform distribution of a-electron densities, particularly in the CN bond,90 upon the 77-electron distribution has been discussed.65 Variable electronegativity self-consistent field (VESCF) molecular orbital calculations, which are an elaboration of the conventional SCF method and allow for the variation in electronegativity of an... 

For the benzenoid aromatic molecules considered here, we wish to include electron correlation for the N electrons of the 7t-eleetron system but not for the 2n a electrons. This is achieved most readily if we first carry out a standard Hartree-Fock MO theory calculation, yielding a set of orthogonal self-consistent field (SCF) molecular orbitals tp(. The spin-coupled wavefunction may then be written... 

For heteronuclear molecules, ab initio calculations of the Self-Consistent-Field (SCF) molecular orbitals are usually necessary to obtain the values of the Ck coefficients. The values of the spin-orbit constants depend on the effective charge on each atom, a positive charge causing a contraction of the atomic orbitals and an increase in C(atomic) a negative charge causes an opposite effect. In the simple case of an expansion of the molecular orbitals in terms of a large number of atomic orbitals associated with a single 1-value on each atom (Lefebvre-Brion and Moser, 1966),... 

Results from self-consistent field (SCF) molecular orbital calculations, in combination with gas-phase photoelectron data and results from post-SCF calculations have provided a basis for descriptions of the valence electronic structure of gas-phase nucleotides and of nucleotides in water-counterion clusters. These descriptions contain values for 11 to 14 of the lowest energy ionization events in the DNA nucleotides 5 -dGMP , 5 -dAMP, 5 -dCMP and 5 -dTMP . When used with an evaluation of the difference between the Gibbs free energies of hydration for the initial and final states associated with ionization, this approach also describes the influence of hydration on the energetic ordering of ionization events in nucleotides. 

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