Improving the calculation of magnetic coupling constants in MRPT methods
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Magnetic Tweezers for the Measurement of Twist and Torque
Published on: May 19, 2014
Mariano Spivak1, Celestino Angeli, Carmen J Calzado
1Departament de Quimica Fisica i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Marcel, lí Domingo s/n, E-43007, Tarragona, Spain.
Abstract:
The magnetic coupling in transition metal compounds with more than one unpaired electron per magnetic center has been studied with multiconfigurational perturbation theory. The usual shortcomings of these methodologies (severe underestimation of the magnetic coupling) have been overcome by describing the Slater determinants with a set of molecular orbitals that maximally resemble the natural orbitals of a high-level multiconfigurational reference configuration interaction calculation. These orbitals have significant delocalization tails onto the bridging ligands and largely increase the coupling strengths in the perturbative calculation.
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