Theoretical evaluation of electron delocalization in aromatic molecules by means of atoms in molecules (AIM) and electron localization function (ELF) topological …

J Poater, M Duran, M Sola, B Silvi - Chemical reviews, 2005 - ACS Publications
Benzene is the emblematic example of an aromatic molecule, and the problem of its
structure has given rise to a chemical serial story running over several decades. The …

Complementarity of QTAIM and MO theory in the study of bonding in donor–acceptor complexes

F Cortés-Guzmán, RFW Bader - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
The quantum theory of an atom in a molecule, QTAIM, provides chemists with a choice of
how to interpret, understand and predict the observations of experimental chemistry. They …

Voronoi deformation density (VDD) charges: Assessment of the Mulliken, Bader, Hirshfeld, Weinhold, and VDD methods for charge analysis

C Fonseca Guerra, JW Handgraaf… - Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We present the Voronoi Deformation Density (VDD) method for computing atomic
charges. The VDD method does not explicitly use the basis functions but calculates the …

Theory of 1, 3-dipolar cycloadditions: distortion/interaction and frontier molecular orbital models

DH Ess, KN Houk - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2008 - ACS Publications
Quantum chemical calculations of activation barriers and reaction energies for 1, 3-dipolar
cycloadditions by the high-accuracy CBS-QB3 method reveal previously unrecognized …

Theoretical elucidation of the origins of substituent and strain effects on the rates of Diels–Alder reactions of 1, 2, 4, 5-tetrazines

F Liu, Y Liang, KN Houk - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The Diels–Alder reactions of seven 1, 2, 4, 5-tetrazines with unstrained and strained alkenes
and alkynes were studied with quantum mechanical calculations (M06-2X density functional …

Diels–Alder reactivities of strained and unstrained cycloalkenes with normal and inverse-electron-demand dienes: Activation barriers and distortion/interaction …

F Liu, RS Paton, S Kim, Y Liang… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The Diels–Alder reactions of the cycloalkenes, cyclohexene through cyclopropene, with a
series of dienes 1, 3-dimethoxybutadiene, cyclopentadiene, 3, 6-dimethyltetrazine, and 3 …

Chemical bonding in transition metal carbene complexes

G Frenking, M Solà, SF Vyboishchikov - Journal of organometallic …, 2005 - Elsevier
In this work, we summarize recent theoretical studies of our groups in which modern
quantum chemical methods are used to gain insight into the nature of metal–ligand …

Bonding in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in terms of the electron density and of electron delocalization

CF Matta, J Hernández-Trujillo - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2003 - ACS Publications
We show that the delocalization indices calculated within the framework of the quantum
theory of atoms in molecules provide an excellent basis for the definition of a bond order in …

Comparison of the AIM delocalization index and the mayer and fuzzy atom bond orders

E Matito, J Poater, M Solà, M Duran… - The Journal of Physical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
In this paper the behavior of three well-known electron-sharing indexes, namely, the AIM
delocalization index and the Mayer and fuzzy atom bond orders are studied at the Hartree …

The QTAIM Approach to Chemical Bonding Between Transition Metals and Carbocyclic Rings: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study of (η5-C5H5) Mn (CO …

LJ Farrugia, C Evans, D Lentz… - Journal of the American …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Experimental charge densities for (C5H5) Mn (CO) 3 (2),(η6-C6H6) Cr (CO) 3 (3), and (E)-
{(η5-C5H4) CF CF (η5-C5H4)}(η5-C5H5) 2Fe2 (4) have been obtained by multipole …