Mindo/3 and mndo calculations of closed‐ and open‐shell cations containing C, H, N, and O

Herman Halim, Nikolaus Heinrich, Wolfram Koch, Jochen Schmidt, Gernot Frenking

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Abstract

Heats of formation of 119 closed‐ and open‐shell carbocations calculated by the semiempirical quantum chemical methods MINDO/3 and MNDO are reported and compared with experimental data. With proper consideration of failures in specific areas, both methods can be used for the thermodynamics of carbocations containing C, H, N, and O. MINDO/3 predicts unrealistic values for nitrogen containing cations with nitrogen multiple bonds and is not suited for closed‐shell cations containing oxygen. Saturated acyclic hydrocarbon radical cations often are computed with abnormally long CC bonds by MNDO. Otherwise, the standard deviation of the two methods is not very different, being in the range of ±13 kcal/mol. MINDO/3 tends to overestimate the cation stabilities, whereas MNDO calculates cations usually too high in energy. Some of the errors which were found in the calculations of the ions are related to the computed values for the parent neutral structures, but others are not.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)93-104
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Computational Chemistry
Volume7
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1986
Externally publishedYes

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