Gadre, Shridhar R and Kulkarni, Sudhir A and Suresh, CH and Shrivastava, Indira H (1995) Basis set dependence of the molecular electrostatic potential topography. A case study of substituted benzenes. In: Chemical Physics Letters, 239 (4-6). pp. 273-281.
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The basis set dependence of the topographical structure of the molecular electrostatic potential (MESP), as well as the effect of substituents on the MESP distribution, has been investigated with substituted benzenes as test cases. The molecules are studied at HF-SCF 3ï¿½21G and 6ï¿½31G** levels, with a further MESP topographical investigation at the 3ï¿½21G, double-zeta, 6ï¿½31G*, 6ï¿½31G**, double-zeta polarized and triple-zeta polarized levels. The MESP critical points for a 3ï¿½21G optimized/6ï¿½31G** basis are similar to the corresponding 6ï¿½31G** optimized/6ï¿½31G** ones. More generally, the qualitative features of the MESP topography computed at the polarized level are independent of the level at which optimization is carried out. For a proper representation of oxygen lone pairs, however, optimization using a polarized basis set is required. The nature of the substituent drastically changes the MESP distribution over the phenyl ring. The values and positions of MESP minima indicate the most active site for electrophilic attack. This point is strengthened by a study of disubstituted benzenes.
|Item Type:||Journal Article|
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|Department/Centre:||Division of Biological Sciences > Molecular Biophysics Unit|
|Date Deposited:||27 Apr 2011 05:07|
|Last Modified:||27 Apr 2011 05:07|
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