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The Transferability of Topologically Partitioned Electron Correlation Energies in Water Clusters
Author(s) -
Silva Arnaldo F.,
Vincent Mark A.,
McDonagh James L.,
Popelier Paul L. A.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
chemphyschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.016
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1439-7641
pISSN - 1439-4235
DOI - 10.1002/cphc.201700890
Subject(s) - electronic correlation , intramolecular force , transferability , topology (electrical circuits) , partition (number theory) , electron , chemistry , coulomb , hydrogen bond , chemical physics , atomic physics , physics , molecule , quantum mechanics , machine learning , computer science , mathematics , logit , combinatorics
The electronic effects that govern the cohesion of water clusters are complex, demanding the inclusion of N ‐body, Coulomb, exchange and correlation effects. Here we present a much needed quantitative study of the effect of correlation (and hence dispersion) energy on the stabilization of water clusters. For this purpose we used a topological energy partitioning method called Interacting Quantum Atoms (IQA) to partition water clusters into topological atoms, based on a MP2/6‐31G(d,p) wave function, and modified versions of GAUSSIAN09 and the Quantum Chemical Topology (QCT) program MORFI. Most of the cohesion in the water clusters provided by electron correlation comes from intramolecular energy stabilization. Hydrogen bond‐related interactions tend to largely cancel each other. Electron correlation energies are transferable in almost all instances within 1 kcal mol −1 . This observed transferability is very important to the further development of the QCT force field FFLUX, especially to the future modelling of liquid water.