Abstract
Further details of a new method for studying strongly coupled orbital triplet Jahn-Teller systems (JT) are presented. The procedure, which involves unitary transformation and energy minimisation, allows coupling to both e- and t2-type cluster vibrations. Detailed results are presented for systems in which trigonal wells in the potential energy surface are energy minima. An estimate is made of the range of e- and t2-type couplings for which the method is valid. Results are also presented for systems with tetragonal energy minima. These are compared with well known results of T(X) e JT problem for the case when the t2-type coupling can be neglected.