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Molecular Electronic Density Fitting Using Elementary Jacobi Rotations under Atomic Shell Approximation (ASA)

 

L. Amat and R. Carbó-Dorca

Institute of Computational Chemistry, University of Girona, Girona 17071, Catalonia, Spain

 


 ABSTRACT

Fitted electron density functions constitute an important step in quantum similarity studies. This fact not only is presented in the published papers concerning quantum similarity measures (QSM), but also can be associated to the success of the developed fitting algorithms. As has been demonstrated in previous work, electronic density can be accurately fitted using the atomic shell approximation (ASA). This methodology expresses electron density functions as a linear combination of spherical functions, with the constraint that expansion coefficients must be positive definite, in order to preserve the statistical meaning of the density function as a probability distribution. Recently, an algorithm based on elementary Jacobi rotations (EJR) technique was proven as an efficient electron density fitting procedure. In the preceding studies, the EJR algorithm was employed to fit atomic density functions, and subsequently molecular electron density was built in a promolecular way as a simple sum of atomic densities. Following previously established computational developments, in this paper the fitting methodology is applied to molecular systems. Although promolecular approach is sufficiently accurate for quantum QSPR studies, some molecular properties, such as electrostatic potentials, cannot be described using such level of approximation. The purpose of the present contribution is to demonstrate that using the promolecular ASA density function as starting point, it is possible to fit ASA-type functions easily to the ab initio molecular electron density. A comparative study of promolecular and molecular ASA density functions for a large set of molecules using a fitted 6-311G atomic basis set is presented and some application examples are also discussed.


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Last updated: 17 March 2000, by Lluís Amat