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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 598-609Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ct2008507
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-SC0001136]
- Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research
- Center for Computational Research (CCR) at the University at Buffalo
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0001136] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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A method is reported by which calculated hyperfine coupling constants (HFCCs) and paramagnetic NMR (pNMR) chemical shifts can be analyzed in a chemically intuitive way by decomposition into contributions from localized molecular orbitals (LMOs). A new module for density functional calculations with nonhybrid functionals, global hybrids, and range-separated hybrids, utilizing the two-component relativistic zeroth-order regular approximation (ZORA), has been implemented in the parallel open-source NWChem quantum chemistry package. Benchmark results are reported for a test set of few-atom molecules with light and heavy elements. Finite nucleus effects on Hg-199 HFCCs are shown to be on the order of -11 to -15%. A proof of concept for the LMO analysis is provided for the metal and fluorine HFCCs of TiF3 and NpF6. Calculated pNMR chemical shifts are reported for the 2-methylphenyl-t-butylnitroxide radical and for five cyclopentadienyl (Cp) sandwich complexes with 3d metals. Nickelocene and vanadocene carbon pNMR shifts are analyzed in detail, demonstrating that the large carbon pNMR shifts calculated as +1540 for Ni (exptl.: +1514) and -443 for V (exptl.: 510) are caused by different spin-polarization mechanisms. For Ni, Cp to Ni pi back-donation dominates the result, whereas for vanadocene, V to Cp a donation with relaxation of the carbon 1s shells can be identified as the dominant mechanism.
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