[molpro-user] making start command valid in optg

[Jacky LIEVIN]

Dear Valérie,

I recently reported a similar problem with optg. I was using a procedure, but I also tried with "startcmd" and got the same problem (see my mail to the mailing list of november 9).
I found that the problem don't occured with molpro2006, so if you still have an old version running, this could temporarily help you ... 
I didn't get any comment on what may happens with the latest versions...

Best wishes

Jacky

Le 18 nov. 2011 à 16:22, Valérie Vallet a écrit :

> Dear MOLPRO users,
> 
> We are trying to run an IRC path at the CASSCF level, and we are facing a case where the automatic CASSCF calculation that uses previous CASSCF orbitals along the reaction coordinate converges to the wrong energy, that is an energy higher than the that one would obtain with a single point calculation using Hartree-Fock orbitals. 
> 
> We thus would like to force the CASSCF to use HF orbitals instead at each geometry steps. However, it seems that the optg keyword ignores "start" commands in the MCSCF step. Is there an option that allows us to force optg to read "start" instructions?
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help,
> 
> Valérie Vallet
> 
> 
> 
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Jacky Liévin
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