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Brendan M Shumberger1, Kirk C Pearce1, T Daniel Crawford1
1Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States.
Abstract:
We present the first analytic-derivative-based formulation of vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) atomic axial tensors for second-order Mo̷ller-Plesset (MP2) perturbation theory. We compare our implementation to our recently reported finite-difference approach and find close agreement, thus validating the new formulation. The new approach is dramatically less computationally expensive than the numerical derivative method with an overall computational scaling of . In addition, we report the first fully analytic VCD spectrum for (S)-methyloxirane at the MP2 level of theory.
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