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What is d-orbital collapse?
When I was perusing the works of Schwarz on atomic structure, I came across the unfamiliar term of d-orbital collapse.
He describes it as a variation in energetic sequence from group 1 to 3 elements ...
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How to calculate transition dipole moment from two known wavefunctions
I'm interested in calculating the transition dipole moment (TDM) from the information from two wavefunctions of different states. This is somewhat similar to calculating the molecular dipole moment ...
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Tetrahedrane Properties and Analogs
I took a look into some tetrahedrane ($\ce{C4H4}$) analogs, platonic hydrocarbon, basically very strained tetrahedral geometry at every carbon. I was wondering what will be the predicted delta H of ...
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MNDO integrals in the global coordinate system
In MNDO and its descendants (Sewart's PMx models, Austin's AM1, MNDO/d, etc.), the nonvanishing two-center two-electron "coulomb integrals" are evaluated via a classical multipole expansion in a local ...
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Rotation around CC bond in 1,2-dioxetane: transition states and local minimum structures
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What: Potential energy surface associated with rotation around CC bond in the ring-opened version of 1,2-dioxetane.
How: State average(4)-CASSCF(12,10)/VTZP constrained geometry optimizations ...
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What is the largest coupled cluster calculation that has ever been done (as of March 2019)?
I am doing some research and trying to make sure the numbers I am reporting are accurate.
I found that the paper by Sylvetsky et. al. says:[1]
We were, however, able to complete a CCSDT(...
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Rationalising diastereoselectivity of hydroboration using stereoelectronics
Using bulky reagents such as 9-BBN, hydroboration is often highly diastereoselective, giving rise to the 1,2-anti diastereomer:
This is easily explained using a steric argument, with the major ...
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What explains the color in clear sigma versus green pi complexes formed by methylbenzene?
Peter Sykes mentions in Guidebook to Mechanism in Organic Chemistry (6th ed.) on p.132 that there would significant differences in physical properties of the resultant mixture when we:
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Role of pH in azo C-coupling reaction, continued
In the question, "What is the role of pH in azo coupling reaction of diazonium with phenol and aniline?" asked by @DhrubaBanerjee and answered by @Klaus-DieterWarzecha, I find several ends ...
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Calculating Triplet-Triplet Spin-Orbit Coupling
According to the Q-Chem manual [1], the singlet-triplet spin-orbit couplings between a singlet excited state $I$ and a triplet excited state state $J$ is:
$$\langle\Phi_\text{singlet}^I|\hat{\mathrm H}...
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Accuracy of quantum chemistry calculations on iodine neglecting relativistic effects
Triiodothyronine is a molecule with three iodine atoms. If we attempted to calculate its properties with ab initio methods like Hartree-Fock or more complicated ab initio methods which included ...
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Density Functional Theory with Generalized Gradient Approxmations (GGA) - What Happens if the Electron Density Shows a "Kink" at the Ion Position?
My question may be stupid, so please correct me if you find anything which is obviously erroneous.
In the following I will place a question mark (?) besides points/steps I consider doubtful.
My ...
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Understanding two-electron integrals in Gaussian 09
I was comparing the two-electron integrals (electron repulsion integrals, ERI) printed by various well-established packages (Gaussian, GAMESS, Molpro etc.) and observed that Gaussian is the oddball in ...
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Does the alpha effect apply to third row elements?
Alkylperoxy anions are stronger nucleophiles than alkoxides (the so-called alpha effect), but would an alkyldisulfide anion be a better nucleophile than an alkylthiolate anion?
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Is there a structured data source containing information on the World Health Organisation's Stability Testing Policies?
Hoping to automate some product testing guidance software, I've been attempting to find a (hopefully live, up-to-date) Database, Web-service, or other structured data source containing the ...
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