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ArticleChemistryOpen2021

Bending the Curve: Molecular Manifestations of Electron Antisymmetry.

Judith Herzfeld, Xinrui Song, Jicun Li, Pinyuan Li

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Article in ChemistryOpen, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Judith HerzfeldDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8664-3995
Xinrui SongBiomedical Engineering Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5570-1056
Jicun LiDepartment of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9585-6458
Pinyuan LiDepartment of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5795-8127
Brandeis University · USEmory University · USRensselaer Polytechnic Institute · US

Funding

National Science Foundation 1855923NSF 1920147NSF 2011846
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As very light fermions, electrons are governed by antisymmetric wave functions that lead to exchange integrals in the evaluation of the energy. Here we use the localized representation of orbitals to decompose the electronic energy in a fashion that isolates the enigmatic exchange contributions and characterizes their distinctive control over electron distributions. The key to this completely general analysis is considering the electrons in groups of three, drawing attention to the curvatures of pair potentials, rather than just their amplitudes and slopes. We show that a positive curvature at short distances is essential for the mutual distancing of electrons and a negative curvature at longer distances is essential to account for the influence of lone pairs on bond torsion. Neither curvature is available in the absence of the exchange contributions. Thus, although exchange energies are much shorter range than Coulomb energies, their influence on molecular geometry is profound and readily understood.

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bond torsioncomputational chemistryexchange interactionslocalized orbitalsvalence shell electron pair repulsion (VSEPR)

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PMID34851046
PMCPMC8634764
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