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Letitia Birnoschi1, Nicholas F Chilton1
1Department of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
Herein we describe Hyperion, a new program for computing relativistic picture-change-corrected magnetic resonance parameters from scalar relativistic active space wave functions, with or without spin-orbit coupling (SOC) included a posteriori. Hyperion also includes a new orbital decomposition method for assisting active space selection for calculations of hyperfine coupling. For benchmarking purposes, we determine hyperfine coupling constants of selected alkali metal, transition metal, and lanthanide atoms, based on complete active space self-consistent field spin-orbit calculations in OpenMolcas. Our results are in excellent agreement with experimental data from atomic spectroscopy as well as theoretical predictions from four-component relativistic calculations.
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