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Calculated electric dipole moments

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The electric dipole moment is a measure of the charge distribution in a molecule. The calculated dipole moments are reported as an unsigned total dipole and as three cartesians components in units of Debye.
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References dealing with electric dipoles
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1993Wib/Rab:1504 KB Wiberg, PR Rablen "Comparison of atomic charges derived via different procedures" J. Comp. Chem. 1993, 14, 1504-1518 10.1002/jcc.540141213
2000BAK/GAU:563 KL Bak, J Gauss, T Helgaker, P Jorgensen, J Olsen,"The accuracy of molecular dipole moments in standard electronic structure calculations" Chem. Phys. Lett. 319 (2000) 563-568 10.1016/S0009-2614(00)00198-6

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