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MRCC is a package of ab initio and density functional quantum chemistry programs for accurate electronic structure calculations. The suite has efficient implementations of both low- and high-level correlation methods, such as second-order Møller–Plesset (MP2), random-phase approximation (RPA), second-order algebraic-diagrammatic construction [ADC(2)], coupled-cluster (CC), configuration interaction (CI), and related techniques. It has a state-of-the-art CC singles and doubles with perturbative triples [CCSD(T)] code, and its specialties, the arbitrary-order iterative and perturbative CC methods developed by automated programming tools, enable achieving convergence with regard to the level of correlation. The package also offers a collection of multi-reference CC and CI approaches. Efficient implementations of density functional theory (DFT) and more advanced combined DFT-wave function approaches are also available. Its other special features, the highly competitive linear-scaling local correlation schemes, allow for MP2, RPA, ADC(2), CCSD(T), and higher-order CC calculations for extended systems. Local correlation calculations can be considerably accelerated by multi-level approximations and DFT-embedding techniques, and an interface to molecular dynamics software is provided for quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics calculations. All components of MRCC support shared-memory parallelism, and multi-node parallelization is also available for various methods. For academic purposes, the package is available free of charge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Group 13 and group 14 atom containing small hydrides were investigated by quantum chemical methods to characterize their possible nonclassical bridged isomers. A robust set of methods were used like NBO analysis, topological analysis of ELF, AIM theory, several bond indices (Mayer bond order, fuzzy atoms bond order, Wiberg bond index, atom–atom overlap weighted NAO bond order), and geometry. The hydrogen bridges can be interpreted by 2 electron – 3 center bonds in NBO analysis, trisynaptic X1-Hb-X2 valence cores in ELF, and two X-Hb bond critical points in AIM theory. The bond orders of the X-Hb bonds are always around half of that in a classical bond, and the sum of the bond orders for the two bridging bonds is always around one. Bonding interaction between the pillar X1-X2 atoms exists in several cases, suggested by NBO analysis, ELF, the geometry and the bond orders. In the AIM picture, however, the X1-X2 pillar bond or one of the X-Hb bridging bond is missing. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2009 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]