title: Accurate Molecular Polarizabilities Based on Continuum Electrostatics.
abstract: A novel approach for representing the intramolecular polarizability as a continuum dielectric is introduced to account for molecular electronic polarization. It is shown, using a finite-difference solution to the Poisson equation, that the Electronic Polarization from Internal Continuum (EPIC) model yields accurate gas-phase molecular polarizability tensors for a test set of 98 challenging molecules composed of heteroaromatics, alkanes and diatomics. The electronic polarization originates from a high intramolecular dielectric that produces polarizabilities consistent with B3LYP/aug-cc-pVTZ and experimental values when surrounded by vacuum dielectric. In contrast to other approaches to model electronic polarization, this simple model avoids the polarizability catastrophe and accurately calculates molecular anisotropy with the use of very few fitted parameters and without resorting to auxiliary sites or anisotropic atomic centers. On average, the unsigned error in the average polarizability and anisotropy compared to B3LYP are 2% and 5%, respectively. The correlation between the polarizability components from B3LYP and this approach lead to a R2of 0.990 and a slope of 0.999. Even the F2anisotropy, shown to be a difficult case for existing polarizability models, can be reproduced within 2% error. In addition to providing new parameters for a rapid method directly applicable to the calculation of polarizabilities, this work extends the widely used Poisson equation to areas where accurate molecular polarizabilities matter.
authors: Département de chimie, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128 Succursale centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7 ; Merck Frosst Canada Ltd., 16711 TransCanada Highway, Kirkland, Québec, Canada H9H 3L1.
authors: Jean-François
authors: JF
authors: Truchon
authors: Anthony
authors: A
authors: Nicholls
authors: Radu I
authors: RI
authors: Iftimie
authors: Benoît
authors: B
authors: Roux
authors: Christopher I
authors: CI
authors: Bayly
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