On generalized partition methods for interaction energies
Journal article, 2020

The breakdown of interaction energy has always been a very important means to understand chemical bonding and it has become a seamlessly useful tool for modern supramolecular chemistry. Many interaction schemes and partitioning methods are known and widely adopted. Their common mechanism is the fragmentation of a chemical system into smaller moieties and the identification of interaction energy contributions somewhat related to a physical phenomenon. However, the definitions of energy terms and of the molecular fragments are not universal, leading to complicated comparisons among different approaches and controversial interpretations. The most adopted methodologies use a partition of the Hilbert space or of the position space. In this paper, we propose a protocol to compare energy decomposition methods based on two schemes representative of each category, namely the energy decomposition analysis (EDA, Hilbert space) and the interacting quantum atom (IQA, position space).

Author

Stefano Racioppi

Chalmers, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry

University of Milan

Angelo Sironi

University of Milan

Piero MacChi

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Polytechnic University of Milan

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

1463-9076 (ISSN) 1463-9084 (eISSN)

Vol. 22 42 24291-24298

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Theoretical Chemistry

DOI

10.1039/d0cp03087b

PubMed

33089853

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1/21/2021