位阻效应
化学
密度泛函理论
化学物理
计算化学
分子
空间因子
立体化学
有机化学
摘要
The concepts of steric energy, steric potential, and steric charge are introduced within the density functional theory framework. The steric energy, representing a hypothetical state with all electrons packed into the lowest orbital and other effects entirely excluded, is a measure of the intrinsic space occupied by an electronic system. It is exclusive, repulsive, and extensive, and it vanishes for homogeneous electron gas. When Bader's zero-flux boundary condition is adopted, atoms in molecules are found to achieve balanced steric repulsion among one another with vanished steric energy density interfaces. A few molecular systems involving conformation changes and chemical reactions have been investigated to examine the relative contribution of the steric and other effects, providing insights for a few controversial topics from a different perspective.
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