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Atomic valence state energies are analyzed to obtain values of orbital energy parameters that may be used in semiempirical molecular orbital calculations. Difficulty in defining the interaction between orbitals with non-integer electron populations is systematically avoided by distinguishing between a valence state and a “molecular state” of an atom, only the latter state having non-integer spin paired orbital occupancy. Application of the virial theorem to the molecular state enables a value for the orbital kinetic energy to be obtained from the valence state orbital energy parameters once an arbitrary configuration is defined as reference. The orbitals then are eigenfunctions of the atomic Fock operator for that reference molecular state and, with their energy parameters, may be employed as a fixed basis set for molecular orbital calculations.
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Parry, D.E. Molecular states of atoms. I. Orbital energy parameters. Theoret. Chim. Acta 60, 173–183 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00550334
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