1 Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling and Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec H4B 1R6, Canada.

Acetonitrile molecules are known for their intriguing ability to accommodate an excess electron in either a diffuse dipole-bound orbital, away from the valence electrons, or in its valence orbitals, depending on the environment. In this work, we report a computational investigation of the monomer and dimer acetonitrile anions, with the main goal of gaining further insight into the unusual electronic structure of these species. To this end, the topology of the electron density distribution has...