Local Treatment of Electron Correlation in Molecular Clusters: Structures and Stabilities of (H2O)n,n= 2−4
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Abstract
The structures and stabilities of small water clusters are studied by local electron correlation methods. It is demonstrated that the local treatment eliminates basis set superposition errors (BSSEs) to a large extent and thus allows BSSE-free geometry optimizations. Results for various basis sets are presented which show that the interaction energies and structural parameters obtained by local second-order Møller−Plesset perturbation theory (LMP2) without counterpoise correction are in close agreement with counterpoise-corrected conventional MP2 results. Furthermore, a partitioning of the LMP2 energies of (H2O)n, n = 2−4, into different excitation classes is reported, which underlines the importance of ionic contributions as well as intramolecular correlation for hydrogen-bonded clusters. The results of this analysis are compared with previous data obtained by symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT).
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