CCL: Strange geometry optimization with breaking of H-bonds
- From: Grigoriy Zhurko <reg_zhurko..chemcraftprog.com>
- Subject: CCL: Strange geometry optimization with breaking of
H-bonds
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:48:32 +0300
Sent to CCL by: Grigoriy Zhurko [reg_zhurko,chemcraftprog.com]
> I have a couple of questions:
> 1) Why didn't you include D3 or D4 corrections in your first calculation? I
> might be wrong, but dispersion corrections will improve geometries in most
> cases, if not all.
I performed the computations with three methods - B3LYP, B3LYP-D4 and
wB97X-D4, and compared the results. As far as I know, it is not 100% proven that
D4 correction is always good.
> 2) Why use ORCA 5.0.3 when version 5.0.4 has been out for quite some time
> now, and many bugs were corrected or detected?
Unfortunately, I can't run 5.0.4 version on my Windows PC with PAL3 option,
while the 5.0.3 version allows that.
For the B3LYP-D4 method, I have checked many times whether the results for my
compounds are the same with the 5.0.3 and 5.0.4 versions. I performed the first
geometry optimization via 5.0.3 version and then completed it with 5.0.4
version. My molecules contain only C, N, O, H, Cl, F atoms.
Grigoriy Zhurko.