Study of the electronic structure of molecules. XXII. Correlation energy corrections as a functional of the Hartree‐Fock type density and its application to the homonuclear diatomic molecules of the second row atoms

A semiempirical functional of the Hartree‐Fock type density, previously obtained for the Hartree‐Fock atomic functions and applied with good success to the second row hydrides (in paper XXI of this series), is now applied to the molecules H2(X 1Σg+), Li2(X 1Σg+), Be2(1Σg+), B2(X 3Σg−), C2 (x1 Σg+), N2(X 1Σg+), O2(X 3Σg−), and F2(X 1Σg+). For each molecule the potential energy curve is computed from the repulsive region to large internuclear distances. In order to follow the dissociation to the correct limits, we have added to the Hartree‐Fock configuration of each molecule those configurations which are needed for describing proper dissociation (HFPD functions). It is found that for certain molecules (Li2, B2, C2, and O2) there are configurations which contribute quite significantly in the bonding regions and must be added to the HFPD function to reach a proper reference state function as previously defined (see paper XXI). With our functional of the density applied to the HFPD functions, the calculated d...

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