SPIN-ADAPTED RESTRICTED HARTREE-FOCK REFERENCE COUPLED-CLUSTER THEORY FOR OPEN-SHELL SYSTEMS - NONITERATIVE TRIPLES FOR NONCANONICAL ORBITALS

The coupled clusters singles and doubles (CCSD) method for calculations of open-shell systems with the single restricted Hartree-Fock (ROHF) reference determinant is extended by the noniterative triples to give CCSD(T). Our approach profits from the fact that (a) single- and double-excitation amplitudes are spin-adapted, which directly leads to a computationally less demanding algorithm than are nonadapted procedures and produces the spin-adapted CCSD wave function and (b) triple excitations calculated from converged spin-adapted (SA) CCSD amplitudes are also obtained more effectively. Altogether, computer demands of our SA CCSD(T) approach, applicable to high-spin open-shell cases which are well represented by a single-determinant reference is comparable to that for closed-shell systems. Our approach is not based on semicanonical orbitals, applied by Bartlett's group. However, we compare some other possible choices of ROHF orbitals to this ''standard.'' Numerical results for a series of atoms and molecules demonstrate little sensitivity to this selection. (C) 1995 John Wiley and Sons, Inc.