title: Atomic partition of the optical rotatory power of methylhydroperoxide.
abstract: We applied a methodology capable of resolving the optical rotatory power into atomic contributions. The individual atomic contributions to the optical rotatory power and molecular chirality of the methylhydroperoxide are obtained via a canonical transformation of the Hamiltonian by which the electric dipolar moment operator is transformed to the acceleration gauge formalism and the magnetic dipolar moment operator to the torque formalism. The gross atomic isotropic contributions have been evaluated for the carbon, the nonequivalent oxygen, and the nonequivalent hydrogen atoms of methylhydroperoxide, employing a very large Gaussian basis set which is close to the Hartree-Fock limit.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física, Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, Av. Libertad 5500, W 3404 AAS-Corrientes, Argentina.
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sánchez
authors.forename: Marta B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Ferraro
authors.forename: Ibon
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Alkorta
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Elguero
authors.forename: Stephan P A
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Sauer
mesh_terms: D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide / Q000737:chemistry*; D008280:Magnetics; D008956:Models, Chemical; D009904:Optical Rotation; D011789:Quantum Theory
chemical_list: D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide