From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Thu Dec 30 16:31:01 2010 From: "jacqueline cawthray jcawth01]_[gmail.com" To: CCL Subject: CCL:G: Gaussian trouble optimising Ru complex. Message-Id: <-43471-101230163009-8893-soeyZvYaGV439UAMqSy5PQ[a]server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: "jacqueline cawthray" Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:30:08 -0500 Sent to CCL by: "jacqueline cawthray" [jcawth01() gmail.com] Hi I am having trouble optimising a Ru complex in Gaussian. The job runs for quite sometime before crashing. I have included the input and output error below. As I am not even clear what the actual error is, I'm not sure where to start. I did try to restart the job but it failed also. If anyone can suggest anything, it would be greatly appreciated. %chk=RuL1.chk %mem=1600MB %nproc=2 #p gfprint gfinput iop(6/7=3) # opt b3lyp/Gen Pseudo=read geom=connectivity L1 0 1 Ru P 1 B1 P 1 B2 2 A1 O 1 B3 2 A2 3 D1 C 2 B4 1 A3 3 D2 C 4 B5 1 A4 2 D3 C etc etc 102 104 1.5 106 1.0 103 104 107 1.0 105 106 107 C O N H Cl P 0 6-31+G(d,p) **** Ru 0 LANL2DZ **** Ru 0 LANL2DZ OUTPUT Cartesian Forces: Max 0.036181262 RMS 0.004409587 Leave Link 716 at Fri Nov 19 17:00:33 2010, MaxMem= 157286400 cpu: 0.3 (Enter /global/scratch/software/gaussian/g09/l103.exe) GradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGradGrad Berny optimization. Using GEDIIS/GDIIS optimizer. Eigenvalue 315 is 0.00D+00 should be greater than 0.000001 Eigenvector: A135 A194 A193 D15 D43 1 0.83652 -0.40474 -0.28226 -0.13656 -0.13628 D16 D17 D13 D14 D41 1 0.05988 0.05530 0.05252 0.04346 0.04002 NTrRot= -1 NTRed= 614 NAtoms= 107 NSkip= 299 IsLin=F Error in internal coordinate system. Error termination via Lnk1e in /global/scratch/software/gaussian/g09/l103.exe at Fri Nov 19 17:00:34 2010. Job cpu time: 13 days 19 hours 31 minutes 59.8 seconds.