Subject: Error with ONIOM/AMBER in G03

From: Jamie Platts <Platts^at^Cardiff.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:37:40 +0100 (BST)

Hi there - I'm having trouble getting an ONIOM job on a platinum complex
to run in Gaussian03. Despite requesting AMBER for the outer region and
LanL2DZ for the metal core, the job crashes because there is no VSTO-3G
basis set for Pt (G98 just printed a warning and carried on).

  Does anyone know of a way to avoid this? More fundamentally, why does an
AMBER calculation require an STO-3G basis anyway?

  Many thanks in advance,

  Jamie

Error message from G03:

 ONIOM: restoring gridpoint  3 on chk file.
 ONIOM: generating point  3 -- low level on real system.
 Standard basis: VSTO-3G* (5D, 7F)
 IA out of range in STO.
 Error termination via Lnk1e in /usr/local/testsoft/g03/l301.exe

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