Simplified Non-Empirical Unrestricted Hartree-Fock Approximation (SUHF) for the Calculation of Electronic Ground State Properties of Molecules with Closed and Open Valence Shells. I. Method

Focusing on relative stabilities of electronic states with different spin multiplicities of polyatomic molecules, a simplified unrestricted Hartree-Fock (SUHF) procedure is described. Using different orbitals for different spins (DODS), electron correlation effects of both closed-shell and open-shell systems are expected to be taken into account in the simplest way. While working within a symmetrically orthogonalized (Löwdin) basis we make use of the N D D O approximation (neglect of diatomic differential overlap) concerning the evaluation of electron repulsion and nuclear attraction integrals. Originally, a locally orthogonalized all-electron atomic orbital set of Slater type is considered. The approximation method is completely non-empirical. Rotational invariance is fully retained.