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Understanding the impact of correlation on bond length alternation in polyenes

Nicolas Suaud
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Nadia Ben Amor
Jean-Paul Malrieu
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This article analyzes the electronic factors governing bond length alternation (BLA) in linear polyenes. The impact of the various effects is illustrated on small all-trans polyenes, namely butadiene, hexatriene and octatetraene prototype molecules. It is well known that self-consistent-field single determinant treatments overestimate the bond length alternation and the paper aims to identify physical effects of correlation which correct this defect. The question is addressed using an orthogonal valence bond-type formalism in which the wave function is expressed in terms of strongly localized bonding and antibonding molecular orbitals. This paper shows that dynamic polarization effects of π orbitals accounted for in the full-π complete active space wave function significantly reduce bond alternation. These effects are brought by single excitations applied on the inter-bond charge transfer determinants. The dynamic polarization of σ bonds, of either CC or CH character, is analyzed afterward by either enlarging the active space or by adding the 1hole-1particle excitations. It is shown that these effects also decrease the BLA and increase the coefficients of the charge transfer determinants. Moreover, the relation with dynamic polarization of ligand-to-metal and metal-to-ligand charge transfer (LMCT and MLCT, respectively) components in magnetic transition-metal compounds is discussed.
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hal-03342596 , version 1 (13-10-2022)

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Nicolas Suaud, Nadia Ben Amor, Nathalie Guihéry, Jean-Paul Malrieu. Understanding the impact of correlation on bond length alternation in polyenes. Theoretical Chemistry Accounts: Theory, Computation, and Modeling, 2021, 140 (8), pp.117. ⟨10.1007/s00214-021-02769-2⟩. ⟨hal-03342596⟩
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