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1Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Weinberg 2, 06120 Halle, Germany.
Abstract:
We provide a new derivation of a formula for the Fukui function of density functional chemical reactivity theory which incorporates the discontinuities in the Kohn-Sham reference system. Orbital relaxations are described in terms of the exchange-correlation (XC) kernel, i.e., the derivative of the XC potential with respect to the density and it is shown that in order to correctly measure the reactivity toward a nucleophilic reagent a discontinuity of the XC kernel has to be taken into account. The importance of this finding is illustrated in model molecular systems.
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