CCL: problem with fixing a bond



What software are you using and what do your input and output files look like?

 

Jim

 

From: owner-chemistry+ccl_nospam==kressworks.com[-]ccl.net [mailto:owner-chemistry+ccl_nospam==kressworks.com[-]ccl.net] On Behalf Of SUBHADEEP SAHA saha.subhadeep*gmail.com
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To: Kress, Jim
Subject: CCL: problem with fixing a bond

 


Dear all,

I am trying to optimize(b3lyp/6-31g) a structure freezing almost 20 atoms and 30 bonds.Now the problem  is crashing after a running number of steps  giving the following error



Iteration100 RMS(Cart)=  0.00000470 RMS(Int)=  0.01035587
 New curvilinear step not converged.
 Error imposing constraints



I checked the final configuration and got that the some of the groups(which are > from the frozen bonds only,suppose I have frozen the C-H bonds of CH3 groups) moves away from initial configuration after feeling some favorable interaction elsewhere.

I have checked CCL archives"http://server.ccl.net/cgi-bin/ccl/message-new?2003+05+23+007".But did not get any satisfactory solution to optimizing the structure keeping the constrains(Whatever I have provided) same.

Can anyone please suggest a solution?

Thanks in advance...


Regards,
Subhadeep Saha
C/O Dr.Rahul Banerjee
Materials and Physical Chemistry Division
National Chemical Laboratory
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