Abstract
Natural localized molecular orbitals (NLMOs) have been used in localcalculations. For a test set of 30 molecules it is shownthe results obtained with NLMOs and Pipek-Mezey localizationvery similar. However, NLMOs are much less sensitive to the basis\nset, in particular when diffuse functions are used. Based on naturalanalysis (NPA) a new method to determine the domains incorrelation methods is proposed. It is demonstrated that thisdomains that are very insensitive to the choice of the basis\nset. For all 30 molecules the same domains are obtained with sixbasis sets ranging from cc-pVDZ to aug-cc-pVQZ. This allowsto define the local correlation methods more uniquely than withmethods.
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