From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Sun Nov 2 04:15:00 2008 From: "Marcel Swart marcel.swart-$-icrea.es" To: CCL Subject: CCL:G: ADF, Gaussian and orbital enegies Message-Id: <-38007-081101190643-17038-uLwSx55in7VRJyj0eg7BSA,,server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: Marcel Swart Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 22:07:49 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: Marcel Swart [marcel.swart]_[icrea.es] The orbital energies such as HOMO and LUMO can be compared perfectly. It is only for the relative energy with respect to the isolated atoms that the programs calculate a different bonding energy. But this does not affect the MO energy levels. Quoting "Radek Kaminski rkaminski.rk.~~.gmail.com" : > > Sent to CCL by: "Radek Kaminski" [rkaminski.rk^gmail.com] > Hi Everybody, > > I was wondering about the possibility of calculating and comparing =20 > the orbital energies (e.g. HOMO, LUMO) for different type of =20 > compounds using data obtained from ADF or Gaussian programs. I know =20 > that in ADF the total energy is given as referred to the atoms =20 > calculated at the beginning but what about Gaussian? The second, how =20 > to compare such energies for different molecules? > > Thanks for help. > > All the best > > Radek Kaminski > > > > -=3D This is automatically added to each message by the mailing script =3D= -> > > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D dr. Marcel Swart ICREA researcher at Institut de Qu=EDmica Computacional Universitat de Girona Parc Cient=EDfic i Tecnol=F2gic Edifici Jaume Casademont (despatx A-27) Pic de Peguera 15 17003 Girona Catalunya (Spain) tel +34-972-183240 fax +34-972-183241 e-mail marcel.swart~~icrea.es marcel.swart~~udg.edu web http://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificForm.aspx?key=3D372 http://iqc.udg.edu/~marcel =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D