CCL:G: Calculating Variational TS



Dear Kraus:
 Please see Prof. Bill Hase's website below:
 https://cdssim.chem.ttu.edu/htmlpages/licensemenu.jsp
 They have codes available for calculating variational TS.
 Best,
 Manikandan.
 On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Peter Kraus p.kraus12() imperial.ac.uk <
 owner-chemistry-*-ccl.net> wrote:
 >
 > Sent to CCL by: "Peter  Kraus" [p.kraus12{:}imperial.ac.uk]
 > Dear CCL Subscribers,
 >
 > I am looking for a way to estimate/calculate a "variational transition
 > state" for an essentially barrierless association process.
 >
 > Currently, I have Gaussian opt-freq logfiles of the reactants and of the
 > product, and a logfile of an "intermediate" somewhere on the
 minimum energy
 > path from products to the reactants.
 >
 > I was told there is a program which can take these three structures as
 > input, and perform some sort of variational optimisation without a
 > considerable computational expense, unfortunately I don't know the name of
 > the code.
 >
 > The only code related to VTST I could find was POLYRATE (in its RP-VTST
 > nosaddle mode); I'm not sure whether this is the right tool.
 >
 > I'll be glad for any help and pointers.
 >
 > Thanks in advance,
 > Peter Kraus>
 >
 >
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 Dr. Manikandan Paranjothy,
 Assistant Professor,
 Department of Chemistry,
 Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur,
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 Jodhpur - 342011,
 Rajasthan, India.
 Email: pmanikandan-*-iitj.ac.in; mani.chem.iitk-*-gmail.com
 Telephone: +91-291-2449082
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