Properties of atoms in molecules: Dipole moments and transferability of properties

This paper uses the theory of atoms in molecules to investigate the origin of molecular dipole moments. The dipole moment is given by a sum over the net charge and first moment of every atom in a molecule. The first term leads to a charge transfer contribution μc, the second to an atomic polarization contribution μa. It is shown that both terms are, in general, of equal importance in determining both the static molecular dipole moment and the moment induced by a nuclear displacement. Models which imploy only point charges and corresponding bond moments which follow rigidly the nuclear framework, i.e., models which approximate μc and ignore μa, are shown to lead to results that are incompatible with the changes that are found to occur in a molecular charge distribution during a nuclear vibration. The dipole moment is shown to be another group property that is transferable between molecules in the normal hydrocarbons, This property, along with the net charge, the energy, the correlation energy (expressed as...

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