CCL:G: which charge is suitable



Dear Jiandong,

You can print the wfx file by using output = wfx together with density = current on the Gaussian input file route line. Then you will have to specify the name of the .wfx file at the bottom of your G09 input file with a blank line before and after. See http://www.gaussian.com/g_tech/g_ur/k_output.htm

.wfx file is better than .wfn file because it accounts for the density of core electrons replaced by an effective core potential. 

There are several programs that can process .wfx files, including AIMALL, multiwfn, Chargemol program, etc. The Chargemol program performs DDEC6 atomic population analysis and can be downloaded from ddec.sourceforge.net . It computes DDEC6 net atomic charges, atomic spin moments, bond orders, atomic dipoles and multipoles, and electron cloud parameters.

DDEC6 charge partitioning is described in the following papers:

N. Gabaldon Limas and T. A. Manz,  "Introducing DDEC6 atomic population analysis: part 2. Computed results for a wide range of periodic and nonperiodic materials," RSC Advances, 6 (2016) 45727-45747.

T. A. Manz and N. Gabaldon Limas, "Introducing DDEC6 atomic population analysis: part 1. Charge partitioning theory and methodology," RSC Advances, 6 (2016) 47771-47801.

You can download these from links on this webpage: http://wordpress.nmsu.edu/tmanz/journal-articles/

The spin partitioning algorithm is described in the following paper:

T. A. Manz and D. S. Sholl, "Methods for Computing Accurate Atomic Spin Moments for Collinear and Noncollinear Magnetism in Periodic and Nonperiodic Materials," Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 7 (2011) 4146-4164. (Featured on the January 2012 journal cover.)

Sincerely,

Tom

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 8:14 PM, 郭建东 guojiandong13^-^mails.ucas.ac.cn <owner-chemistry__ccl.net> wrote:


Dear researchers
 Recently, I conduct charge population analysis on transition metal during the pyrrole reductive elimination from transition metal. This reductive elimination process involves electron transfer between transition metal and pyrrole. I do not know which charge scheme is suitable for the process, such as Hirshfeld charge, NPA(natural population analysis) ,AIM. Would you like to give me some advice or some relating reading materials?

Jiandong

University of Chinese academy of sciences, Beijing,China