From:	giovanni \\at// sg2.csrsrc.mi.cnr.it (Giovanni Scalmani)
Date:	Tue, 7 Jan 1997 09:42:44 -0800
Subject:	Electrostatic_effects_in_molecular_crystals

Dear friends,

I am wondering about the following problem:

I would like to model - by means of ab-initio calculations -
the electrostatic effects on a single molecule due to the
crystalline environment within a molecular crystal, i.e.
I would like to perform a (possibly high level) calculation
of a single molecule's electronic structure under the
influence of a neighbouring molecules' charge distribution.
An iterative procedure should be necessary to attain
self-consistency between the ab-initio charge distribution
of the reference molecule and the neighbouring molecules'
charge distribution, which will be in turn derived from the
reference molecule's wavefunction.

Since I have no deep knowledge of crystallography, I will
appreciate advises about two issues:

1) Widely speaking: Is such an approach correct? Can you
   give me some references in the literature? If I have more
   than one molecule (or even different molecular species)
   in the cell a similar approach on more than one molecule
   is still feasible, but is it worth while? How should I
   model the neighbouring molecules' charge distribution
   (Mulliken charges, charges fitted to the molecular
   electrostatic potential, Atom-In-Molecule-derived
   charges, orientable atomic dipoles, ... ) ?

2) More technically: do you know a program which reads the
   crystalline structure (for example from the Cambridge
   Database) and performs all coordinates manipulation I
   will need ? In particular to obtain cartesian coordinates
   of any specified molecule in the cell surrounded by all the
   neighbouring molecules whose centers of mass are within
   a certain radius from the reference molecule's center of
   mass ?

Thank you in advance for all suggestions,

Giovanni.

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