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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 18, Issue 22, Pages 15070-15080Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6cp00939e
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- Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada
- NSERC
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We provide a perspective on the role of non-integer electron number in the density functional theory approach to chemical reactivity (conceptual DFT), emphasizing that it is important to not only treat reagents as open systems, but also as non-isolated systems, in contact with their surroundings. The special case of well-separated reagents is treated in some detail, as is the case where reagents interact strongly. The resulting expressions for the chemical potential of an acid, mu(acid) = -(alpha/ + A)/(1 + alpha), and a base, mu(base) = -(l + alpha A)/(1 + alpha), elucidate and generalize the assumptions inherent in the chemical potential models of Mulliken (alpha = 1) and Gazquez, Cedillo, and Vela (alpha = 3). In the strongly-interacting limit, it is appropriate to model the effects of the environment as a state-specific effective temperature, thereby providing a rigorous justification for the phenomenological effective-temperature model one of the authors previously proposed. The framework for the strongly interacting limit subsumes our model for weakly-interacting subsystems at nonzero temperature, the case of open but otherwise noninteracting subsystems, and the zero-temperature limit.
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