ISSN:
0020-7608
Keywords:
Chemistry
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Theoretical, Physical and Computational Chemistry
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
The Kramers' restricted Hartree-Fock (KRHF) and second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation (KRMP2) methods using relativistic effective core potentials (RECP) with spin-orbit operators and two-component spinors are extended to the unrestricted forms, KUHF and KUMP2. As in the conventional unrestricted methods, the KUHF and KUMP2 methods are capable of qualitatively describing the bond breaking for a single bond. As a result, it is possible to estimate spin-orbit effects along the dissociation curve at the HF and MP2 levels of theory as is demonstrated by the test calculations on the ground states of HI and CH3I. Since the energy lowering due to spin-orbit interactions is larger for the I atom than for the closed-shell molecules, dissociation energies are reduced and bond lengths are slightly elongated by the inclusion of the spin-orbit interactions. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Int J Quant Chem 66: 91-98, 1998
Additional Material:
2 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
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