On generalized partition methods for interaction energies
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 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).

Författare

Stefano Racioppi

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Kemi och biokemi

Universita' degli Studi di Milano

Angelo Sironi

Universita' degli Studi di Milano

Piero MacChi

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Politecnico di Milano

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

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

Vol. 22 42 24291-24298

Ämneskategorier

Annan fysik

Teoretisk kemi

DOI

10.1039/d0cp03087b

PubMed

33089853

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2021-01-21