From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Sat Mar 11 00:03:00 2006 From: "Roy Jensen rjensen|,|consol.ca" To: CCL Subject: CCL: Norming energies of different entities... Message-Id: <-31173-060310234239-19843-70BBs2rRWWfr8XfrM1JYMw-$-server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: Roy Jensen Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:42:31 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: Roy Jensen [rjensen^consol.ca] Okay...this is good... >E = 0.000 for the total energy is when all nuclei and all electrons are >moved to an infinite distances from each other. How would I calculate the difference between E = 0 for C2 and E = 0 for N2? This will solve my problem of vertically scaling the MO energies. Dr. Roy Jensen (==========)-----------------------------------------¤ Chemistry, Grant MacEwan College Edmonton, AB T5J 4S2 780.633.3915 On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:04:22 -0500, you wrote: >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> >> >>