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. 2021 Oct 1;125(40):9011–9025. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c06574

Table 11. Scaled Point-Charge Approximation (sPCA) (See Eq 35) of Inter-Atomic Bielectronic Integrals for Nearest-Neighbor Interactionsa.

System RAB QA QB δAB EclAB scl ExAB sx
β-N2 1.108 0.003 0.003 2.999 0.220 b –0.903 0.630
CO2 1.149 2.280 –1.140 1.323 –1.415 1.182 –0.426 0.699
Graphite 1.422 0.000 –0.001 1.202 0.037 b –0.372 0.832
BN (hex.) 1.446 2.214 –2.213 0.452 –1.762 0.982 –0.135 0.816
Diamond 1.545 0.001 0.001 0.914 0.014 b –0.284 0.907
BN (cubic) 1.561 2.160 –2.160 0.357 –1.587 1.004 –0.106 0.881
MgB2 1.782 –0.813 –0.813 0.983 0.166 0.845 –0.249 0.852
MgO 2.106 1.711 –1.712 0.129 –0.725 0.984 –0.029 0.884
LiCl 2.566 0.897 –0.899 0.044 –0.165 0.991 –0.007 0.819
Al 2.863 0.000 0.000 0.273 0.0013 b –0.054 1.071
NaCl 2.896 0.875 –0.878 0.064 –0.1376 0.980 –0.010 0.866
CsCl 3.540 0.826 –0.827 0.126 –0.1019 0.996 –0.017 0.915
Na 3.667 0.000 0.000 0.108 0.0008 b –0.013 0.836
a

Energies in Ha, distances in Å, and charges in e units.

b

For interactions between (nearly) noncharged atomic species, the scaling parameters scl become quite large, because the electrostatic interaction is then no longer dominated by a monopolar Inline graphic term. Nevertheless, the absolute error of this assumption is typically small, because the interactions are weak.