Hi all,<br>I am working on minimising the energy of methoxy molecule (CH3O) with respect to symmetric displacements that will preserve the C3v symmetry of the molecule. In other words, I am using the active variables- CO bond length, 3CH bonds displacements (all in same direction) and 3 HCO bending displacements (all in same direction as in umbrella motion). As you will see in the output of the following input, the final geometry after optimisation is CO ~ 1.427 A, and corresponding parameters for CH and HCO angle. <br>
<br>I notice that when I scan the potential with respect to only CO bond compression, the energy of the molecule when CO ~ 1.38 A for example is lower than CO ~ 1.427 A. The CO bond compression preserves the C3v symmetry of the molecule, and so I would expect the Conical optimisation procedure to arrive at a minimum with respect to symmetric motions in the molecule. The difference in energy between 2 above such geometries is about 100cm-1. How can I force MOLPRO to search for the correct minimum with respect to the symmetric motions? (I know that the asymmetric motions do not have a minimum at C3v symmetry, hence the Jahn-Teller effect in the molecule.) I notice the same trend with the other 2 symmetric motions as well. Any comments or suggestions would be great.<br>
<br clear="all"><u>Input-</u><br>basis=6-311+g(2d,2p)<br>geomtype={zmat}<br>geometry={Angstrom;<br> c;<br> o,c,oc;<br> h1,c,h1c,o,h1co;<br> h2,c,h1c,o,h1co,h1,120.0;<br> h3,c,h1c,o,h1co,h1,240.0}<br>
oc=1.30,h1c=1.1,h1co=109.1<br><br>{uhf;occ,7,2;open,7.1;wf,17,1,1}<br>{casscf;maxiter,40;occ,9,3;closed,5,1;wf,17,1,1;state,1;weight,0.5;wf,17,2,1;state,1;weight,0.5;<br> CPMCSCF,GRAD,1.1,spin=0.5,accu=1.0d-8,record=5101.1<br>
CPMCSCF,GRAD,1.2,spin=0.5,accu=1.0d-8,record=5102.1}<br> {Force,<br> SAMC,5101.1<br> CONICAL,6100.1}<br> {Force<br> SAMC,5102.1<br> CONICAL,6100.1}<br>{optg,startcmd=casscf}<br><br>-- <br>Jayashree<br>