Authors: Jun Shen ShuHua Li
Publish Date: 2010/02/21
Volume: 53, Issue: 2, Pages: 289-296
Abstract
The performances of several multireference electronic structure methods including complete active space selfconsistent field CASSCFbased secondorder perturbation theory CASPT2 multireference configuration interaction with single and double excitations MRCISD MRCISD with the Davidson correction MRCISD+Q and the CASSCFbased blockcorrelated coupled cluster method CASBCCC4 we developed recently are compared by applying them to study several different chemical problems involving computation of ground state potential energy surfaces the singlettriplet gaps in diradicals reaction barriers and the excitation energies of lowlying excited states Comparison with the results from other highly accurate theoretical methods or the available experimental data demonstrate that for all the problems studied the overall performance of CASBCCC4 is competitive with that of MRCISD+Q and better than that of CASPT2 and MRCISD methods Thus the CASBCCC4 approach is expected to be a promising theoretical method for quantitative descriptions of the electronic structures of molecules with noticeable multireference character
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