Accurate coupled Hartee-Fock calculations of the electric field dependence of the proton magnetic shielding in the hydrogen molecule

The components of the tensors sigmasup((1)) and sigmasup((2)) which describe respectively the linear and quadratic electric field dependence of the nuclear magnetic shielding have been computed for the hydrogen molecule using SCF perturbation theory with an extended basis set which includes s-, p- and d-orbitals on both nuclei. The calculated components of sigmasup((1)) are only slightly affected by the incorporation of d-orbitals unlike those of sigmasup((2)) which are altered quite markedly. For the mean shielding the present results provide an interesting comparison with the results of other theoretical and experimental studies. (author)