CCL: Help on H.O.F. from MOPAC

["Lukman Olawale Olasunkanmi" <waleolasunkanmi{:}gmail.com>]

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 Hello James,
 Please, what can you say about the reliability of the Heat of Formation (H.O.F)
 data obtained from MOPAC2009? It seems the values are not well comparable to
 experimental standard heat of formation values as do S, H and Cp.
 I also came across a statement: " A new quantity is the heat of formation
 at the defined T. This is intended for use in calculating heats of reaction.
 Because of a limitation in the data available, the H.O.F. at T kelvin is defined
 as "the heat of formation of the compound at T kelvin from its elements in
 their standard state at 298K". Obviously this definition of H.O.F. is
 incorrect, but should be useful in calculating heats of reaction, where the
 elements in their standard states at 298K drop out". Does this statement
 simply mean that the H.O.F obtained in MOPAC is not quantitatively reliable?
 Although, I always draw correct qualitative conclusions from the results.
 More so, any time I specify the keyword THERMO in my calculations, I obtain this
 warning: "the Gradient is too large for force calculation...", do you
 think using LET GNORM = 0.01 can solve this problem?
 Thank you in anticipation of your swift response.