Use of the CNDO method for the study of the electronic structure and properties of complexes of the transition metals

Conclusions In our view, the material examined in the present review indicates that, in spite of the appearance of more accurate methods of calculating the electronic structure and the increasing possibilities provided for their realization for fairly complex systems, the applied value of simple semiempirical methods, in particular the CNDO method, is far from exhausted. In the near future, semiempirical calculations will probably provide the chief means of studying the electronic structures of complex molecules, by becoming accessible to an increasing circle of chemists.Leningrad State University. Translated from Zhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 549–577, May–June, 1976.