title: Quantitative characteristics of qualitative localized bonding patterns.
abstract: Patterns of localized and delocalized chemical bonding obtained using the recently proposed adaptive natural density partitioning (AdNDP) provide a qualitative description of electronic structure but miss any quantitative information. Descriptors, such as the electron localization function (ELF), provide quantitative characteristics of bonding and can enhance the usefulness of qualitative patterns. In the present study, we used ELF and a related construct, charge-density-weighted ELF (ELF rho), to characterize localized and delocalized bonding in a variety of systems. It is demonstrated that ELF rho yields a more detailed description than ELF when used to analyze bonding in aromatic, conflicting aromatic, and antiaromatic systems. Both canonical molecular orbitals (CMOs) and localized multicenter two-electron (nc-2e) bonds obtained in the latter case by AdNDP localization are used to calculate ELF rho.
authors.affiliation: Kenneth S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-1460, USA.
authors.forename: Dmitry Yu
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Zubarev
authors.forename: Dominik
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Domin
authors.forename: William A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Lester