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It is shown that the numerical measure of effectively unpaired electrons N eff, proposed by Head-Gordon in 2003, is a particle-hole index: N eff is reduced to the average occupation of virtual particle-hole pairs. Specific π calculations of the N eff index provide a reasonable interpretation of the radicaloid character of the singlet ground state in complex conjugated systems. The results of the accurate π model (based on the total configuration interaction) and approximate approaches are compared. The coupled cluster method and various Hartree-Fock schemes (UHF and Löwdin EHF scheme) demonstrate an acceptable quantitative description of unpairing effects, UHF being favorable in simplicity of obtaining the measure of unpairing in megamolecules, such as graphene structures. The application of the known Yamaguchi index results in a rougher representation of the radical character of a system.
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Translated from Zhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 55, No. 5 pp. 845–854, September–October, 2014.
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Luzanov, A.V. Measures of unpaired electrons for large conjugated systems. J Struct Chem 55, 799–808 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0022476614050011
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