CCL: ZFS calculation of Single-Ion-Magnet



Respected computational chemists,

I am a beginner in computational chemistry.

I am trying to calculate the ZFS parameters of a single-ion-magnet(showing slow relaxation of magnetization below 5 Kelvin) using ORCA and Guassian09.

My concern here is: Should I try the zfs calculation after geometry optimization of the structure or we should directly use the coordinates from x-ray diffraction data of the single crystal collected at 140K?

Thanks in Advance 

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Vijay Singh Parmar
Department of Chemistry 
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