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The valence electron wave functions were taken to be zero outside of a near-metal region (see Fig. 6). The wave functions were expanded in a basis of plane waves. One-electron wave functions were computed through the following well-known [40] iterative process Compute the (/ + l)th iterate as... 

Figure 3. Typical polarogram—dodecylbenzyldimethylsul-fonium chloride, in LON KCl, dropping mercury electrode current full scale 5 Halfwave potentials, —1.02 V —1.13 V, major wave, one electron transfer —1.44V.

From dimensional arguments alone the average HF exchange potential must be proportional to the inverse of r, i.e. proportional to the one-third power of the density. By averaging the HF exchange potential over the plane-wave one-electron eigenfunctions of the jellium model up to the Fermi wavevector... 

Fig. 25. SCF-Xa-scattered wave one electron molecular orbital energy level diagram (neglecting spin orbit coupling) for Pt(CN)4 (/>4 ) and [Pt(CN)4jj<-(C2 ) depicting all states above 12 eV and correlation between orbitals (507).

Single-wave two-electron process followed by two two-electron irreversible reduction j>rocesses. Two-wave four-electron quasi-reversible reduction process. Two-wave four-electron quasi-reversible reduction process, single wave one-electron quasi-reversible reduction process and a one electron irreversible reduction. Two-wave four-electron quasi-reversible reduction process and two one-electron irreversible reduction processes. 

One aspect that reflects the electronic configuration of fullerenes relates to the electrochemically induced reduction and oxidation processes in solution. In good agreement with the tlireefold degenerate LUMO, the redox chemistry of [60]fullerene, investigated primarily with cyclic voltammetry and Osteryoung square wave voltammetry, unravels six reversible, one-electron reduction steps with potentials that are equally separated from each other. The separation between any two successive reduction steps is -450 50 mV. The low reduction potential (only -0.44 V versus SCE) of the process, that corresponds to the generation of the rt-radical anion 131,109,110,111 and 1121, deserves special attention. 

The electrochemical features of the next higher fullerene, namely, [70]fullerene, resemble the prediction of a doubly degenerate LUMO and a LUMO + 1 which are separated by a small energy gap. Specifically, six reversible one-electron reduction steps are noticed with, however, a larger splitting between the fourth and fifth reduction waves. It is important to note that the first reduction potential is less negative than that of [60]fullerene [31]. 

The expression for the force on the nuclei, Eq. (89), has the same form as the BO force Eq. (16), but the wave function here is the time-dependent one. As can be shown by perturbation theory, in the limit that the nuclei move very slowly compared to the electrons, and if only one electronic state is involved, the two expressions for the wave function become equivalent. This can be shown by comparing the time-independent equation for the eigenfunction of H i at time t... 

If more than one electronic state is involved, then the electronic wave function is free to contain components from all states. For example, for non-adiabatic systems the elecbonic wave function can be expanded in the adiabatic basis set at the nuclear geometry R t)... 

One of the advantages of this method is that it breaks the many-electron Schrodinger equation into many simpler one-electron equations. Each one-electron equation is solved to yield a single-electron wave function, called an orbital, and an energy, called an orbital energy. The orbital describes the behavior of an electron in the net field of all the other electrons. 

The second approximation in HF calculations is due to the fact that the wave function must be described by some mathematical function, which is known exactly for only a few one-electron systems. The functions used most often are linear combinations of Gaussian-type orbitals exp(—nr ), abbreviated GTO. The wave function is formed from linear combinations of atomic orbitals or, stated more correctly, from linear combinations of basis functions. Because of this approximation, most HF calculations give a computed energy greater than the Hartree-Fock limit. The exact set of basis functions used is often specified by an abbreviation, such as STO—3G or 6—311++g. Basis sets are discussed further in Chapters 10 and 28. 

There are several ways to include relativity in ah initio calculations more efficiently at the expense of a bit of accuracy. One popular technique is the Dirac-Hartree-Fock technique, which includes the one-electron relativistic terms. Another option is computing energy corrections to the nonrelativistic wave function without changing that wave function. 

Slater type orbital (STO) mathematical function for describing the wave function of an electron in an atom, which is rigorously correct for atoms with one electron... 

Valence bond and molecular orbital theory both incorporate the wave description of an atom s electrons into this picture of H2 but m somewhat different ways Both assume that electron waves behave like more familiar waves such as sound and light waves One important property of waves is called interference m physics Constructive interference occurs when two waves combine so as to reinforce each other (m phase) destructive interference occurs when they oppose each other (out of phase) (Figure 2 2) Recall from Section 1 1 that electron waves m atoms are characterized by their wave function which is the same as an orbital For an electron m the most stable state of a hydrogen atom for example this state is defined by the Is wave function and is often called the Is orbital The valence bond model bases the connection between two atoms on the overlap between half filled orbifals of fhe fwo afoms The molecular orbital model assembles a sef of molecular orbifals by combining fhe afomic orbifals of all of fhe atoms m fhe molecule... 

The simplest many-electron wave function that satisfies the Exclusion Principle is a product of N different one-electron functions that have been antisymmetrized, or written as a determinant. Here, N is the number of electrons (or valence electrons) in the molecule. HyperChem uses this form of the wave function for most semi-empirical and ab initio calculations. Exceptions involve using the Configuration Interaction option (see page 119). HyperChem computes one-electron functions, termed molecular spin orbitals, by relatively simple integration and summation calculations. The many-electron wave function, which has N terms (the number of terms in the determinant), never needs to be evaluated. 

Cl calculations can be used to improve the quality of the wave-function and state energies. Self-consistent field (SCF) level calculations are based on the one-electron model, wherein each electron moves in the average field created by the other n-1 electrons in the molecule. Actually, electrons interact instantaneously and therefore have a natural tendency to avoid each other beyond the requirements of the Exclusion Principle. This correlation results in a lower average interelectronic repulsion and thus a lower state energy. The difference between electronic energies calculated at the SCF level versus the exact nonrelativistic energies is the correlation energy. 

The polarographic half-wave reduction potential of 4-nitroisothiazole is -0.45 V (pH 7, vs. saturated calomel electrode). This potential is related to the electron affinity of the molecule and it provides a measure of the energy of the LUMO. Pulse radiolysis and ESR studies have been carried out on the radical anions arising from one-electron reduction of 4-nitroisothiazole and other nitro-heterocycles (76MI41704). 

The electronic wave function has now been removed from the first two terms while the curly bracket contains tenns which couple different electronic states. The first two of these are the first- and second-order non-adiabatic coupling elements, respectively, vhile the last is the mass polarization. The non-adiabatic coupling elements are important for systems involving more than one electronic surface, such as photochemical reactions. 

In the adiabatic approximation the form of the total wave function is restricted to one electronic surface, i.e. all coupling elements in eq. (3.12) are neglected (only the terms with i = i survive). Except for spatially degenerate wave functions, the diagonal first-order non-adiabatic coupling element is zero. 

As mentioned in Chapter 5, one can think of the expansion of an unknown MO in terms of basis functions as describing the MO function in the coordinate system of the basis functions. The multi-determinant wave function (4.1) can similarly be considered as describing the total wave function in a coordinate system of Slater determinants. The basis set determines the size of the one-electron basis (and thus limits the description of the one-electron functions, the MOs), while the number of determinants included determines the size of the many-electron basis (and thus limits the description of electron correlation). 

The simplest description of an excited state is the orbital picture where one electron has been moved from an occupied to an unoccupied orbital, i.e. an S-type determinant as illustrated in Figure 4.1. The lowest level of theory for a qualitative description of excited states is therefore a Cl including only the singly excited determinants, denoted CIS. CIS gives wave functions of roughly HF quality for excited states, since no orbital optimization is involved. For valence excited states, for example those arising from excitations between rr-orbitals in an unsaturated system, this may be a reasonable description. There are, however, normally also quite low-lying states which essentially correspond to a double excitation, and those require at least inclusion of the doubles as well, i.e. CISD. 

Requiring the variation of L to vanish provides a set of equations involving an effective one-electron operator (hKs), similar to the Fock operator in wave mechanics... 

The hKs matrix is analogous to the Fock matrix in wave mechanics, and the one-electron and Coulomb parts are identical to the corresponding Fock matrix elements. The exchange-correlation part, however, is given in terms of the electron density, and possibly also involves derivatives of the density (or orbitals, as in the BR functional, eq. (6.25)). 

SCVB wave functions to include electron correlation is due to the fact that the VB orbitals are strongly localized, and since they are occupied by only one electron, they have the built-in feature of electrons avoiding each other. In a sense, an SCVB wave function is tte best wave function that can be constructed in terms of products of spatial orbitals. By allowing the orbitals to become non-orthogonal, the large majority (80-90%) of what is called electron correlation in an MO approach can be included in a single determinant wave function composed of spatial orbitals, multiplied by proper spin cou ing functions. 

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