Transferability and Physicochemical Interpretation of Canonical Force Fields in Redundant Internal Coordinates: Pyridazine and 3,6-Dichloropyridazine

Abstract

The behavior of various force fields for pyridazine and 3,6-dichloropyridazine coming from different origins (i.e., HF/6-31G*, MP2/6-311G**, BLYP/6-31G*, B3LYP/6-31G* previously scaled) and empirical force fields transferred from the benzene molecule is investigated. These potentials are subjected to a linear least-squares refinement with the available experimental information considered as observed data. Moreover, the transferability properties of the force fields for these related molecules are analyzed. From the refined force fields which gave the most satisfactory results in the fitting procedure, the physicochemical meaning of the force constants in terms of redundant simple internal coordinates in the unambiguous canonical form is studied. Although the results are not completely decisive for the pyridazine series, significant conclusions are drawn pertaining to their force fields, some of which are calculated for the first time. First, the utility of canonical force fields is shown through the force...