SINDO, is one of many
semi-empirical quantum chemistry methods
Semi-empirical quantum chemistry methods are based on the Hartree–Fock formalism, but make many approximations and obtain some parameters from empirical data. They are very important in computational chemistry for treating large molecules wher ...
. It stands for symmetric orthogonalised
INDO
Indo may refer to:
* Indo-, a prefix indicating India or the Indian Subcontinent
* Indonesia, a country in Asia
** INDO LINES, callsign of Indonesian Airlines
** Indo people, people of mixed European and Indonesian ancestry
** Indo cuisine, fusion ...
and was developed by K. Jug and coworkers. Like
MINDO
MINDO, or Modified Intermediate Neglect of Differential Overlap is a semi-empirical method for the quantum calculation of molecular electronic structure in computational chemistry. It is based on the Intermediate Neglect of Differential Overlap ( ...
, it is a development of the
INDO
Indo may refer to:
* Indo-, a prefix indicating India or the Indian Subcontinent
* Indonesia, a country in Asia
** INDO LINES, callsign of Indonesian Airlines
** Indo people, people of mixed European and Indonesian ancestry
** Indo cuisine, fusion ...
method. The main development is the inclusion of d orbitals for atoms of the second row of the
periodic table
The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the (chemical) elements, is a rows and columns arrangement of the chemical elements. It is widely used in chemistry, physics, and other sciences, and is generally seen as an icon of ch ...
. It performs better for
hypervalent
In chemistry, a hypervalent molecule (the phenomenon is sometimes colloquially known as expanded Octet rule, octet) is a molecule that contains one or more main group elements apparently bearing more than eight electrons in their valence shells. P ...
compounds than other semiempirical methods.
[K. Jug and J. Schulz, ]Journal of Computational Chemistry
The ''Journal of Computational Chemistry'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1980 by John Wiley & Sons. It covers research, contemporary developments in theory and methodology, and applications in all areas of computational chem ...
, 9, 40, (1988)
References
Semiempirical quantum chemistry methods
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