From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Sun Jul 20 03:05:01 2008 From: "naser E Eltayeb nasertaha90-#-yahoo.co.uk" To: CCL Subject: CCL:G: Molecular Orbital Energy in G03 Message-Id: <-37371-080720030307-22364-9rscSkxz7i3d9f5U91N/Aw:+:server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: "naser E Eltayeb" Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:03:04 -0400 Sent to CCL by: "naser E Eltayeb" [nasertaha90|yahoo.co.uk] Dear All I am interesting in calculation of molecular orbitals to get the band gap, I run DFT calculation in Gaussian03, I copy part of the log file below, I know that the first column is the energy of the orbital, what about the rest column? I compare the result from the log file and the energy obtained using M.O in gaussview I found some differences in determination which is HOMO and which is LUMO. I am looking for your answer. Thank you Naser E. Eltayeb Universiti Sains Malaysia nasertaha90!A!yahoo.co.uk The electronic state is 1-A. Alpha occ. eigenvalues -- -9.83283 -9.83283 -9.83252 -9.83251 -9.82399 Alpha occ. eigenvalues -- -9.82399 -9.82340 -9.82340 -9.82337 -9.82337 Alpha occ. eigenvalues -- -9.82254 -9.82254 -9.82226 -9.82225 -0.82730 Alpha occ. eigenvalues -- -0.79666 -0.75041 -0.73140 -0.70059 -0.69030 Alpha occ. eigenvalues -- -0.65516 -0.60402 -0.57725 -0.56673 -0.55353 Alpha occ. eigenvalues -- -0.50171 -0.49584 -0.47726 -0.43812 -0.42999 Alpha occ. eigenvalues -- -0.42536 -0.42256 -0.39896 -0.39314 -0.38818 Alpha occ. eigenvalues -- -0.38529 -0.36591 -0.35770 -0.35423 -0.32569 Alpha occ. eigenvalues -- -0.31572 -0.30999 -0.30549 -0.29902 -0.26232 Alpha occ. eigenvalues -- -0.25244 -0.20837 Alpha virt. eigenvalues -- -0.12164 -0.07563 -0.06479 -0.04497 -0.02358 Alpha virt. eigenvalues -- -0.01807 -0.01629 -0.00887 0.00309 0.00454 Alpha virt. eigenvalues -- 0.01559 0.02333 0.02338 0.03142 0.03367 Alpha virt. eigenvalues -- 0.04149 0.04249 0.04310 0.04584 0.06347 Alpha virt. eigenvalues -- 0.07502 0.07662 0.08473 0.08590 0.08835 Alpha virt. eigenvalues -- 0.08996 0.10309 0.10417 0.10962 0.11315