#! /bin/sh # This example illustrates advanced usage of the bond energy decomposition # scheme used in ADF. # Remark: this calculation simulates unrestricted fragments using the FRAGOCCUPATIONS # key. Real unrestricted fragments can also be used in ADF. # A proper decomposition of an electron-pair bond energy requires specifying # opposite spins for the unpaired electrons of the respective radical fragments, # which can be done with the input key FragOccupations. The specified alpha- and # beta-spin configurations of the radical fragments are shown in the output # section B U I L D. # Please note that if one neglects explicitly specifying opposite spins for the # unpaired electrons of the fragments, each of them is treated as being half an # alpha and half a beta electron and consequently, they enter into a spurious # Pauli repulsive interaction. This results, among others, into the Pauli # repulsion term being too repulsive and the orbital interaction term being too # much stabilizing. # The example consists of an analysis of the C-C single bond between two CP # radicals in the four-atomic molecule PCCP. The CP fragment calculations used # to provide the adf.rkf for the overall PCCP calculation are done here in # the restricted mode ('cp_fpccp_asr'). The proper spins # are then specified in the calculation of the overall molecule using the # FragOccupations key ('pccp_fa1_as'). Note that this implies a slight # approximation because the bond energy computed in this way refers to the # energy difference between closed-shell PCCP and two CP radicals that are # described by orbitals from a spin-restricted SCF calculation, which have been # given an unrestricted occupation. In other words, the set of alpha- and beta- # spin orbitals are identical and the effect of spin polarization is missing. In # practice, this leads to minor energy differences with respect to the correct # bond energy, that is, the energy difference between closed-shell PCCP and two # CP radicals treated in the unrestricted mode, i.e., for which the set of # alpha- and beta-spin orbitals are allowed to relax toward different solutions # in the SCF procedure. This correction term can be computed directly by # carrying out an unrestricted computation of the CP radical ('cp_fpccp_asu') using the # restricted CP radical ('cp_fpccp_asr') as a fragment. # The pure orbital interaction effect of forming the electron bonding combination # of the two radicals can be isolated from the full orbital interaction by carrying out a # separate calculation. In this calculation (pccp_fa1_pb) the bond energy analysis is performed in # the absence of any virtual CP fragment orbitals, using the key REMOVEFRAGORBITALS. AMS_JOBNAME=CP $AMSBIN/ams <