“…We used the General Theory of Perturbation Limited to the Frontier Molecular Orbitals. [34][35][36][37][38] The geometry of the 4-(4-chlorophenyl)pyrimidinium benzoyl methylide 5a (for the energetically most favoured geometry, the heat of formation is ∆H= 63.174 kcal/mol), the atomic charges, the coefficients of the atomic orbitals, and the values of the energies of the frontier molecular orbitals ( An analysis of the data from Table 2 leads to the following conclusions: -the ylide carbanion center, C-7, has a negative atomic charge, less than unity, but significant; -the ylide nitrogen atom, N-1, has a positive atomic charge, less than unity, significant but smaller (in absolute value) than the ylide carbanion; -the α-endocyclic carbon atoms, C-2 and C-6, have small negative atomic charges, both being less than unity. Table 2.…”