Sobre desestabilización frente a sobreestabilización en el análisis teórico de la covalencia orbital

Kirill D Shumilov1, Andrew J Jenkins1, Henry S La Pierre2,3,4

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States.

Resumen

Los métodos computacionales avanzados son cruciales para estudiar con precisión los complejos de bloque f. El gran espacio activo, la multireferencia y los enfoques relativistas variacionales son necesarios para cálculos de estructura electrónica confiables, a diferencia de algunas aproximaciones de la teoría funcional de densidad.

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