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In the following chapters the electronic structure of molecules will be discussed and the techniques of electronic structure calculations presented. Without exception the molecular electronic wave functions will be expanded in some convenient, but physically motivated, set of one-electron functions. Since the computational effort strongly depends on the number of expansion functions (see, e.g., the following chapters), the set of functions must be limited as far as possible without adversely affecting the accuracy of the wave functions. This chapter will discuss the choice of such functions for molecular calculations.
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Dunning, T.H., Hay, P.J. (1977). Gaussian Basis Sets for Molecular Calculations. In: Schaefer, H.F. (eds) Methods of Electronic Structure Theory. Modern Theoretical Chemistry, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0887-5_1
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