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A value of −0.33 eV or −7.6 kcal mol−1 has been obtained for the vertical delocalisation energy of trans-1,3-butadiene from a nonempirical molecular orbital calculation on the π system. The result agrees well enough with ab initio calculations to suggest that a simplified approach need not be semiempirical. In a basis of orthogonalised atomic orbitals the central bond order is found to be 0.295 (Hückel value 0.447) for the delocalised structure and 0.125 for the localised (Hückel value zero). Core resonance integrals between neighbouring atoms, the analogues of Hückel's β, have theoretical values of −3.9 and −3.2 eV compared with −3.6 eV in benzene.
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Received: 11 May 1999 / Accepted: 22 July 1999 / Published online: 2 November 1999
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Melrose, M. Π delocalisation in 1,3-butadiene: a nonempirical molecular orbital study. Theor Chem Acc 103, 440–443 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002149900088
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002149900088