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Spatial Separation of Molecular Conformers and Clusters
Published on: January 9, 2014
Separation of sigma and pi energies
Andreas M Köster1, Patrizia Calaminici, Gerald Geudtner
1Departamento de Quimica, CINVESTAV, Avenida Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2508, A.P. 14-740 Mexico D.F. 07000, Mexico.
Abstract:
This work presents an all-electron density functional theory implementation of the separation of sigma and pi energies. On the basis of the separation of the electronic density, rho, into sigma and pi parts, an ansatz for the separation of the exchange-correlation energy is proposed. The behavior of the sigma and pi energy parts in benzene is investigated under different distortions. The effect of local and nonlocal functionals on the separation of the exchange-correlation energy is studied, too.
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