Abstract: | A variational method has been developed to solve the vibrational problem in the excited electronic state and to calculate the vibrational structure of the electronic spectrum of polyatomic molecules. The properties and structural characteristics of the variational matrix have been analyzed and an effective algorithm has been proposed for its approximate diagonalization. The effectiveness of the method and the corresponding suite of programs for the personal computer have been analyzed via the results of model calculations for a number of molecular structures. The method has high precision (errors of about 5% for frequencies and 15% for relative intensities), is an order of magnitude faster than previously used methods, and provides the possibility for the effective solution of the electrono-vibrational problem for polyatomic molecules, including the reverse problem.K. A. Timiryazev Agricultural Academy. Translated from Zhurnal Strukturnoi Khimii, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 149–156, January–February, 1993. |