Abstract
The possible geometries for cyclobutadiene and the electronic spectra corresponding to those geometries were calculated by a modified Pariser-Parr method with inclusion of doubly-excited as well as singly-excited configurations in calculating the π-energy. The bond lengths of the most stable forms agreed well with previous calculations where the empirical parameters used in the π-energy calculation were different from those used here, and where only singly-excited configurations were included. With these additional refinements, the rectangular singlet is calculated to be more stable than the square triplet. It is noted that the geometry predicted to have the lowest energy is a function of the approximations employed.
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