Extracting chemical information from plane wave calculations by a 3D ‘fuzzy atoms’ analysis

Bond order and valence indices have been calculated by the method of the three-dimensional ‘fuzzy atoms’ analysis, using the numerical molecular orbitals obtained from plane wave DFT calculations, i.e., without introducing any external atom-centered functions. Weight functions of both Hirshfeld and Becke types have been applied. The results are rather close to the similar ‘fuzzy atoms’ ones obtained by using atom-centered basis sets and agree well with the chemical expectations, stressing the power of the genuine chemical concepts.