1. Additional Quantum-based Methods
a. Semi-empirical methods
b. Density functional theory
c. Molecular Orbital Applications

2. Semi-empirical methods

3. Semiempirical Molecular Orbital Calculation
Extended Huckel MO Method
(Wolfsberg, Helmholz, Hoffman)
Independent electron approximation
Schrodinger equation for electron i
Hval = i Heff(i)
Heff(i) = -(h2/2m) i2 + Veff(i)
Heff(i) i = i i

4. LCAO-MO:
fi = r cri yr
  s ( Heffrs - ei Srs ) csi = 0
  Heffrs  < r| Heff | s > Srs  < r| s >
Parametrization:
Heffrr  < r| Heff | r >
= minus the valence-state ionization
potential (VISP)

5. Atomic Orbital Energy VISP
e5 -e5
e4 -e4
e3 -e3
e2 -e2
e1 -e1
Heffrs = ½ K (Heffrr + Heffss) Srs K: 13

6. CNDO, INDO, NDDO
(Pople and co-workers)
Hamiltonian with effective potentials
Hval = i [ -(h2/2m) i2 + Veff(i) ] + ij>i e2 / rij
two-electron integral:
(rs|tu) = <r(1) t(2)| 1/r12 | s(1) u(2)>
CNDO: complete neglect of differential overlap
(rs|tu) = rs tu (rr|tt)  rs tu rt

7. INDO: intermediate neglect of differential overlap
(rs|tu) = 0 when r, s, t and u are not on the same atom.
NDDO: neglect of diatomic differential overlap
(rs|tu) = 0 if r and s (or t and u) are not on the
same atom.
CNDO, INDO are parametrized so that the overall
results fit well with the results of minimal basis ab
initio Hartree-Fock calculation.
CNDO/S, INDO/S are parametrized to predict
optical spectra.

8. MINDO, MNDO, AM1, PM3
(Dewar and co-workers, University of Texas,
Austin)
MINDO: modified INDO
MNDO: modified neglect of diatomic overlap
AM1: Austin Model 1
PM3: MNDO parametric method 3
*based on INDO & NDDO
*reproduce the binding energy

9. Density functional theory

10. Quantum Methods Wavefunctions Electron Density Hartree-Fock DFT MP2-CI
TD-DFT
The HF equations have to be solved iteratively because VHF depends upon solutions (the orbitals). In practice, one adopts the LCAO scheme, where the orbitals are expressed in terms of N basis functions, thus obtaining matricial equations depending upon N4 bielectron integrals.

11. Information provided by  is redundant
N = 42e-
benzene
Number of terms in the determinantal form  : N! = 1.4 1051
Number of Cartesian dimensions: 3N = 126
is a very complex object including more information than we need!
The use of electron density allows to limit the redundant information
The electron density is a function of three coordinates no matter of the electron number.

12. What is Density?
Density provides us information about how something(s) is(are) distributed/spread about a given space
For a chemical system the electron density tells us where the electrons are likely to exist (e.g. allyl)

13. Representations of the electron density of the water molecule: (a) Relief map showing values of ρ(r) projected onto the plane, which contains the nuclei (large values near the oxygen atom are cut out);
(b) Three dimensional molecular shape represented by an envelope of constant electron density (0.001 a.u.).

14. Definitions
Function: a prescription which maps one or more numbers to another number:
Functional: A functional takes a function as input and gives a number as output. An example is:
Here f(x) is a function and y is a number. An example is the functional to integrate x from - to .

15. ab-initio methods can be interpreted as a functional of the wavefunction, with the functional form completely known!
Can we write an explicit functional form of energy E[ρ] for DFT?
In the general case the answer is not known.
It is the main chalenge in DFT.

16. Timetable • 1920s: Introduction of the Thomas-Fermi model.
• 1964: Hohenberg-Kohn paper proving existence of exact DF.
• 1965: Kohn-Sham scheme introduced.
• 1970s and early 80s: LDA. DFT becomes useful.
• 1985: Incorporation of DFT into molecular dynamics (Car-Parrinello) (Now one of PRL’s top 10 cited papers).
• 1988: Becke and LYP functionals. DFT useful for some chemistry.
• 1998: Nobel prize awarded to Walter Kohn in chemistry for development of DFT.

17. Thomas-Fermi Energy (1920)
-TF kinetic electron energy is an approximation of true kinetic electron energy
-Potential nuclear-electron energy
-Potential electron-electron Coulomb interaction energy
exchange and correlation effects are completely neglected

18. Correlation energy
Exchange correlation: Electrons with the same spin (ms) do not move independently as a consequence of the Pauli exclusion principle.  = 0 if two electrons with the same spin occupy the same point in space, independently of their charge. HF theory treats exactly the exchange correlation generating a non local exchange correlation potential.
Coulomb correlation: Electrons cannot move independently as a consequence of their Coulomb repulsion even though they are characterized by different spin (ms). HF theory completely neglects the Coulomb correlation thus generating, in principle, significant mistakes. Post HF treatments are often necessary.

19. The Slater exchange functional
The predecessor to modern DFT is Slater’s Xa method. This method was formulated in 1951 as an approximate solution to the Hartree-Fock equations. In this method the
HF exchange was approximated by:
The exchange energy EXa is a fairly simple function of the electron density r.
The adjustable parameter a was empirically determined for each atom in the periodic table. Typically a is between
0.7 and 0.8. For a free electron gas a = 2/3.

20. The VWN Correlation Functional
In ab initio calculations of the Hartree-Fock type electron correlation is also not included. However, it can be included
by inclusion of configuration interaction (CI). In DFT calculations the correlation functional plays this role. The Vosko-Wilk-Nusair (VWN) correlation function is often added to the Slater exchange function to make a combination exchange-correlation functional.
Exc = Ex + Ec
The nomenclature here is not standardized and the correlation functionals themselves are very complicated functions.

21. Correlation Energy: Is it important?
N2 molecule:
Corelation energy ~ 0.5% of the electronic energy
~ 50% of the binding energy!

22. DFT energy
EDFT = ENN + ET + Ev + Ecoul + Eexch + Ecorr  ENN - nuclear-nuclear repulsion energy,
Ev - nuclear-electron attraction energy ,
Ecoul - electron-electron Coulomb repulsion energy
are the same as those used in Hartree-Fock theory.
ET - kinetic energy of the electrons  energy
Eexch - electron-electron exchange energy 
Are different from those used in Hartree-Fock theory.
Ecorr -correlation energy of electrons of different spin
is not accounted for in Hartree-Fock theory.
Due to these differences, the exchange energies calculated exactly in Hartree-Fock theory cannot be used in density functional theory.

23. From Hohenberg and Kohn (1964)
The important advances for practical calculations are in electronic density-functional theory.
From Hohenberg and Kohn (1964)
Energy is a functional of electron density: E[r]
Ground-state only, but the exact r minimizes E[r]
Then Kohn and Sham (1965)
Variational equations for a “local” functional:
where Exc contains electron correlation:

24. Nonlocal effects, introduced in early 1990’s, have made DFT powerful.
Kohn and Sham had the local exchange functional:
Need “nonlocal” effects of gradient,
Current approach: Hybrid functionals
Combine Hartree-Fock Ex and DFT contributions Ex +Ec
Numerous proposed functionals and combinations
Axel Becke’s BLYP, B3LYP, BH&HLYP; Truhlar’s M06
Give excellent structures and frequencies, poorer energies.

25. Hybrid functionals The basic idea behind the hybrid functionals is to mix exchange energies calculated in an exact (Hartree-Fock-like) manner with those obtained from DFT methods in order to improve performance. Frequently used methods are: B3LYP method.
Becke-3-LYP (B3LYP) uses a different mixing scheme involving three mixing parameters: EXC = 0.2*EX(HF) + 0.8*EX(LSDA) *DEX(B88) *EC(LYP) *EC(VWN) In this latter case, the B88 (Becke) gradient correction to the local LSDA exchange energies carries its own scaling factor of 0.72 and the LYP (Lee, Yang, and Parr) gradient correction to the local VWN correlation energies carries its own scaling factor of The three scaling factors have been derived through fitting the parameters to a set of thermochemical data