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The field of transition metal compounds has always been in a special position in theoretical chemistry. For a long period, up to the sixties, the basic theory which governed this field was the crystal field theory(1) and its daughter the ligand field theory (born from the wedding of the crystal field theory, a physicist’s approach, with the molecular orbital theory, a chemist’s approach; see for instance Ref. 2). However, the reader is reminded that the first extended Hückel calculation dealt not with some hydrocarbons but with MnO -4 .(3) The molecular orbital approach to the electronic structure of transition metal complexes flourished in the sixties through many semiempirical approximations and in 1969 the ab initio treatment of the NiF 4-6 cluster(4,5) paved the way for ab initio calculations of transition metal compounds. It is mostly computational limitations which have in the past more or less prevented a wide application of the ab initio techniques to the chemistry of transition metal compounds. However, with the technical developments which may be forecast for the next few years, this type of calculation will probably become much more common. In this vast field that is open to the quantum chemist (in an authoritative book of inorganic chemistry, more than half of the text is devoted to the chemistry of the transition elements(6)), the most fruitful studies will probably correspond to some specific areas such as the study of conformations or the study of unstable species and transition states.
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Since completion of this manuscript, the field of ab initio calculations for transition metal complexes and organometallics has expanded rapidly, largely due to the availability of very efficient programs.(79) A (13, 9, 7) Gaussian basis set is now available for the second transition series.(80) An ab initio calculation for Pd(CO)4 (81) invalidates the conclusions of molecular pseudopotential calculations regarding the sequence of the outermost occupied orbitals,(82) and the bonding schemes of Ni(CO)4 and Pd(CO)4 have been compared.(81) Calculated excitation energies for the PdCl 2-4 anion, with a double-zeta-type basis set for the valence shells, are in excellent agreement with the data (assignments and energy separations) derived from the polarized crystal spectrum.(83) Calculations for the ground and excited states have been reported for MnO -4 ,(84) TiCl4 and VC14,(85) CrOF5,(86) CrOCl 2-4 , (87) CoCl 2-4 . (88) The nature of the metal-metal interaction in binuclear complexes of Cr and Mo has been discussed in light of SCF and CI calculations.(89) The CI calculations for the binuclear complexes of Cr do not support a previous description in terms of a nonbonding configuration for the ground state of tetra-/x-carboxylatochromium(II) compounds.(90) Electronic and structural aspects of dioxygen binding to iron porphyrins considered as heme models have been discussed recently.(91–93)
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Veillard, A., Demuynck, J. (1977). Transition Metal Compounds. In: Schaefer, H.F. (eds) Applications of Electronic Structure Theory. Modern Theoretical Chemistry, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8541-7_5
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