Do diradicals behave like radicals?

T Stuyver, B Chen, T Zeng, P Geerlings… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
This review sets out to understand the reactivity of diradicals and how that may differ from
monoradicals. In the first part of the review, we delineate the electronic structure of a …

Magnetic interactions in molecules and highly correlated materials: physical content, analytical derivation, and rigorous extraction of magnetic Hamiltonians

JP Malrieu, R Caballol, CJ Calzado, C De Graaf… - Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Magnetism is a phenomenon that has always captured the imagination of humans. Its
discovery in the western world is attributed to the ancient Greek civilization. More than 2500 …

Determining key local vibrations in the relaxation of molecular spin qubits and single-molecule magnets

L Escalera-Moreno, N Suaud… - The journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
To design molecular spin qubits and nanomagnets operating at high temperatures, there is
an urgent need to understand the relationship between vibrations and spin relaxation …

The Triplet–Singlet Gap in the m-Xylylene Radical: A Not So Simple One

D Reta Mañeru, AK Pal, IPR Moreira… - Journal of Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Meta-benzoquinodimethane (MBQDM) or m-xylylene provides a model for larger organic
diradicals, the triplet–singlet gap being the key property. In the present work this energy …

Theoretical determination of spin Hamiltonians with isotropic and anisotropic magnetic interactions in transition metal and lanthanide complexes

R Maurice, C De Graaf, N Guihery - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The determination of anisotropic magnetic parameters is a task of both experimental and
theoretical interest. The added value of theoretical calculations can be crucial for analyzing …

First-principle design of Blatter's diradicals with strong ferromagnetic exchange interactions

A Bajaj, ME Ali - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2019 - ACS Publications
The stable organic diradicals that exhibit strong intramolecular ferromagnetic exchange
interactions are suitable building blocks for organic magnetic materials (OMMs). Based on …

Kekulé versus Lewis: when aromaticity prevents electron pairing and imposes polyradical character

G Trinquier, JP Malrieu - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Some conjugated alternant hydrocarbons, of singlet ground state according to Ovchinnikov's
rule, may exhibit strong polyradical character, despite admitting complete pairing of …

A Quasidegenerate Second-Order Perturbation Theory Approximation to RAS-nSF for Excited States and Strong Correlations

NJ Mayhall, M Goldey… - Journal of Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We present a modification of the recently developed Restricted Active Space with n Spin
Flips method (RAS-n SF), which provides significant efficiency advantages. In the RAS-n SF …

Assessment of various natural orbitals as the basis of large active space density-matrix renormalization group calculations

Y Ma, H Ma - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
It is well-known that not only the orbital ordering but also the choice of the orbitals itself as
the basis may significantly influence the computational efficiency of density-matrix …

Simulation vs. understanding: a tension, in quantum chemistry and beyond. Part B. The march of simulation, for better or worse

R Hoffmann, JP Malrieu - Angewandte Chemie, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In the second part of this Essay, we leave philosophy, and begin by describing Roald's
being trashed by simulation. This leads us to a general sketch of artificial intelligence (AI) …