Ab initiovalence bond calculations

Abstract
Ab initio valence bond calculations have been performed for the ground and excited states of H2S, H2S+, H2S-, SH, SH+, SH-. The dependence of calculated properties such as energy, ionization potential, dissociation energy, and dipole moment on the starting basis set, on the amount of configuration interaction and on the number of electrons explicítly included in the calculation is studied. It is found that freezing the electron core is a satisfactory approximation leading to a drastic reduction of computation time while preserving the quality of the results as compared with experiment and MO calculations. In addition, the geometry of the ground state of H2S was optimized.

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