<HTML><BODY>Dear, Tatiana and Mariusz.<br>Thank you for sharing your experience and publications concerning extrapolation of def2 basis sets to complete basis set.<br>Although def2 sets are not designed for extrapolation, these papers allow us to try it.<br><br>><em> as far as I know, the def2- series (DZ=def2-SVP, TZ=def2-TZVPP,</em><br><em> QZ=def2-QZVPP) performs reasonably well in CBS extrapolations, although</em><br><em> it was not designed for this purpose. See this paper: J. Chem. Theory</em><br><em> Comput., 2011, 7, 33-43.</em><br><br>> <em>Although def2-basis sets were not designed for basis set extrapolation they can </em><br><em> be used for estimating CBS and this is shown e.g. in works of Frank Neese and </em><br><em> collaborators, see</em><br> <br><em> Anoop, A.; Thiel, W.; Neese, F. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2010, 6, 3137.</em><br> <br><em> Neese, F.; Valeev, E. F. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2011, 7, 33.</em><br> <br><em> I also used the usual formula E(Basis[X]) = E(CBS) + A/X^3 for X=3 and 4 for </em><br><em> def2-TZVP and def2-QZVP several times and the results seem to be encouraging.</em><br><br></BODY></HTML>