Abstract
The homolytic dissociation of a single bond involves the decorrelation of one electron pair. Thus, the contribution of electron correlation to dissociation energies is large. In the present paper a new procedure is presented which allows the computation of the (within the given basis) complete correlation energy of one optimized electron pair. The method which requires only modest computational effort has been applied to the calculation of dissociation energies of a number of bonds of different types. The results show that the correlation of the electron pair of the bond which is broken contributes about 50–80% to the change of the total correlation energy occuring during the dissociation process which amounts to 20–70 kcal/mol. The fraction of correlation contributed by the bond electron pair as well as the relative importance of the left-right correlation within the bond depend very much on the type of the bond. In the case of CC and CH single bonds our method yields dissociation energies which are low by only about 5 kcal/mol. Thus, the method seems to be well suited for the calculation of potential surfaces of non-concerted organic chemical reactions which involve diradicals as intermediates.
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Kollmar, H. MO theoretical studies of electron pair decorrelation processes. I. Pair correlation energy and single bond dissociation. Theoret. Chim. Acta 58, 19–30 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00635720
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