Electrostatic Potentials from Self-Consistent Hirshfeld Atomic Charges.

It is shown that molecular electrostatic potentials obtained from iterative or self-consistent Hirshfeld atomic point charges agree remarkably well with the ab initio computed electrostatic potentials. The iterative Hirshfeld scheme performs nearly as well as electrostatic potential derived atomic charges, having the advantage of allowing the definition of the atom in the molecule, rather than just yielding charges. The quality of the iterative Hirshfeld charges for computing electrostatic potentials is examined for a large set of molecules and compared to other commonly used techniques for population analysis.

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