CCL: Semiempirical energies



Dear Eliac;
Are you sure that your binding energy calculation is based on the truely optimized structure? Have you checked its IR frequencies?
Regards 
Mehdi
 
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From: Pedro Silva pedros[-]ufp.edu.pt <owner-chemistry*ccl.net>
To: "Esrafili, Mehdi D " <m_esrafili*yahoo.com>
Sent: Wed, December 22, 2010 7:36:42 PM
Subject: CCL: Semiempirical energies


Sent to CCL by: Pedro Silva [pedros]*[ufp.edu.pt]
You should not expect very reliable data from semi-emprirical computations ;-)

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Eliac Brown Eliacbrown|-|yahoo.com
<owner-chemistry^_^ccl.net> wrote:
>
> Sent to CCL by: "Eliac  Brown" [Eliacbrown%%yahoo.com]
> Dear All
> According to my semiempirical calculations using PM3 and AM1, the distance
> between two molecules is less than the sum of vdw radii by around 0.3 ang., but
> when I calculated the binding energies I got a positive energy difference.
> Have any body got this observation before? or is there something wrong with my
> data?
> Merry xmas
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