A comparison of lobe and cartesian gaussian basis sets for molecular calculations

Lobe gaussian and cartesian gaussian basis sets, of approximately minimal basis Slater accuracy, have been compared for molecular calculations. The basis sets were constructed so that they only differed in the representation of the angular dependence of the p function. Calculation of total energy and several one-electron properties for a series of nine molecules shows that, for molecular calculations, the lobe and cartesian gaussian representations are equivalent.