From owner-chemistry&$at$&ccl.net Thu Mar 9 16:48:01 2006 From: "Brian Salter-Duke b_duke ~ octa4.net.au" To: CCL Subject: CCL: Norming energies of different entities... Message-Id: <-31167-060309050301-29204-g9sKEnK9uqFRADQRa4d2bg()server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: Brian Salter-Duke Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:20:46 +1100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: Brian Salter-Duke [b_duke,octa4.net.au] On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:41:35PM -0500, Roy Jensen rjensen^^^consol.ca wrote: > Sent to CCL by: Roy Jensen [rjensen]*[consol.ca] > All > > A pedagogical question... > > Given calculations on a series of diatomic entities -- B2, C2, N2, O2, > and F2 -- is there any way to know how the orbital energies relate > between these species? I want to create a figure that accurately > presents all the MO diagrams. I am not sure what you want here. > On a second note, what does zero energy (E = 0.0000 Hartree) > correspond to? E = 0.000 for the total energy is when all nuclei and all electrons are moved to an infinite distances from each other. Regards, Brian. > Thanks, > Dr. Roy Jensen > (==========)-----------------------------------------¤ > Chemistry, Grant MacEwan College > Edmonton, AB T5J 4S2 > 780.633.3915> > > -- Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) b_duke**octa4.net.au Post: 626 Melbourne Rd, Spotswood, VIC, 3015, Australia Phone 03-93992847. http://members.iinet.net.au/~linden1/brian/ Honorary Researcher Fellow, Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry, Monash Univ.