VALIDITY OF ADDITIVITY APPROXIMATIONS USED IN GAUSSIAN-2 THEORY

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作者
CURTISS, LA
CARPENTER, JE
RAGHAVACHARI, K
POPLE, JA
机构
[1] AT&T BELL LABS,MURRAY HILL,NJ 07974
[2] CARNEGIE MELLON UNIV,DEPT CHEM,PITTSBURGH,PA 15213
[3] CRAY RES INC,EAGAN,MN 55121
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10.1063/1.462261
中图分类号
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号
070304 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Three additivity approximations used in GAUSSIAN-2 (G2) theory to compute effective QCISD (T)/6-31 1 + G(3df,2p) energies for molecular systems are investigated by carrying out full QCISD(T)/6-311 + G(3df,2p) calculations on the set of 125 systems used for validation [J. Chem. Phys. 94, 7221 (1991 )]. The results indicate that the approximations work very well. The average absolute deviation of the full results from experiment is 1. 17 kcal/mol which is close to that of G2 theory (1.21 kcal/mol). The average absolute deviation with G2 theory is only 0.30 kcal/mol. However, the cpu cost increases by a factor of 2-3.
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页码:9030 / 9034
页数:5
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