Nonempirical wave functions for very large molecules. II. The PRDDO/M/FCP method

A variation of the frozen-core potential (FCP) method is developed and implemented within the modified version of the method of partial retention of diatomic differential overlap (PRDDO/M). The explicit treatment of core electrons is replaced with a potential based on the actual core-valence integrals rather than upon an arbitrary model potential. The core-valence orthogonality requirement is replaced by an energy shift operator. PRDDO/M/FCP calculations exhibit good agreement with ab initio calculations with the same basis set, while reducing the computational cost significantly.