Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.107, No.4, 1173-1184, 1997
Natural Chemical Shielding Analysis of Nuclear-Magnetic-Resonance Shielding Tensors from Gauge-Including Atomic Orbital Calculations
Nuclear magnetic shielding tensors computed by the gauge including atomic orbital (GIAO) method in the Hartree-Fock self-consistent-held (HF-SCF) framework are partitioned into magnetic contributions from chemical bonds and lone pairs by means of natural chemical shielding (NCS) analysis, an extension of natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis. NCS analysis complements the description provided by alternative localized orbital methods by directly calculating chemical shieldings due to delocalized features in the electronic structure, such as bond conjugation and hyperconjugation. Examples of NCS tensor decomposition are reported for CH4, CO, and H2CO, for which a graphical mnemonic due to Cornwell is used to illustrate the effect of hyperconjugative delocalization on the carbon shielding.
Keywords:LOCALIZED MOLECULAR-ORBITALS;C-13 NMR-SPECTRA;ELECTRON CORRELATION;CARBON-MONOXIDE;SHIFT TENSORS;SUSCEPTIBILITIES;QUANTITIES;TERMS;IGLO;STATE