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From: Vincent Xianlong Wang <xloongw*&*yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: CCL:accuracy of relative energies with DFT
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--- Marcel Swart <m.swart*&*few.vu.nl> wrote:

> Hi Silviu,
> 
> as you can see in my Mol.Phys. 102 (2004) p. 2467
> paper, PBE gives an
> accuracy of 11.8 kcal/mol for the atomization
> energies of the G2/97 set,
> when used with a TZP basis set;
> note also that there are other GGA functionals that
> perform much better.
> 
> For the atomization energies, you test the absolute
> value of the energy,
> while for the energies of the different isomers, you
> compare the 
> relative
> energy; I would expect the error in the atomization
> energy to be much 
> larger
> than that in the relative energy of isomers; the
> latter is probably 
> smaller
> than the 1.0 kcal/mol you mentioned.

Hi Dr. Swart, is this error just your guess or you
have some evidence, either theoretical or
experimental?
Thanks. 

Vincent

> NB.
> Please let me know if you have trouble locating the
> paper,
> and I will send you an off-print.
> 
> On Jun 22, 2005, at 11:30 PM, Silviu Zilberman
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been studying transition metal complexes
> with DFT (PBE 
> > xc-functional). I think that a typical accuracy of
> PBE is around 10 
> > kcal/mol.
> >
> > I was wondering, when comparing very similar
> isomers, should I expect 
> > higher accuracy in the relative total energies. I
> have seen papers 
> > reporting differences of ~1 kcal/mol, but is it
> reliable?
> >
> > Thanks, SIlviu.
> 
>                                             
> dr. Marcel Swart
> 
> Theoretische Chemie
> Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
> Faculteit der Exacte Wetenschappen
> 
> De Boelelaan 1083
> 1081 HV Amsterdam
> The Netherlands
> 
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>                                             
> 
> 


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