title: The origin of deficiency of the supermolecule second-order Moller-Plesset approach for evaluating interaction energies.
abstract: Calculations for the complex of thymine and adenine are used to show that the supermolecule second-order Moller-Plesset perturbation theory (MP2) approach for evaluating interaction energies fails in certain cases because of the behavior of one of its components: the uncoupled Hartree-Fock dispersion energy. A simple approach for correcting the MP2 supermolecule interaction energies is proposed. It focuses on correcting a relatively small difference between the MP2 and coupled cluster interaction energies, which is a very appealing feature of the new approach considering a benchmark role played by coupled cluster results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA. cybulssm@muohio.edu
authors.forename: Slawomir M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Cybulski
authors.forename: Marion L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Lytle