@paracetamol Better post stuff like that in the Spring cleaning chat without ping. We'll get around to looking at those things eventually. It usually is low priority, but it'll be taken care of.
> Now, UCLA researchers have discovered a chemical reaction—that might someday be used to process petroleum into useful compounds—in which non-classical carbocations play key roles. The results, published July 27 in the journal Science, underscore the importance of non-classical cations—ions with fewer electrons than protons, and thus a positive charge.
Stasik Popov et al. Teaching an old carbocation new tricks: Intermolecular C–H insertion reactions of vinyl cations, Science (2018). DOI: 10.1126/science.aat5440
Someone told me that I have to ditch diffuse functions if I want to get reasonable Wiberg bond orders in my calculations. Is that correct? If so, how do diffuse functions negatively affect calculated bond orders? And how do I get reliable bond orders when I have to use diffuse functions?