From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Fri Jul 22 00:09:00 2011 From: "Frank Neese neese]|[thch.uni-bonn.de" To: CCL Subject: CCL: Freeware with analytical Hessian after DFT geometry optimization Message-Id: <-45131-110720174839-23070-L3MT4BASE3yHumMMyj18rQ#,#server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: Frank Neese Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:47:57 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Sent to CCL by: Frank Neese [neese^-^thch.uni-bonn.de] > I'm not sure that ORCA can really make analytical Hessian for DFT... > Here is a text from the latest ORCA 2.8.0 documentation: > "6.3 Vibrational Frequencies > Vibrational frequency calculations are available through one- or two- sided > _numerical differentiation_ of analytical gradients, i.e. for Hartree- Fock and DFT models." ... that is correct - ORCA does not yet have analytical Hessians. But we are working on it and it will be available in the not too distant future All the best, Frank Neese > 20.07.2011 21:31, dipankar roy theodip[*]gmail.com wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> You may try ORCA. >> >> best, >> Dipankar Roy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ++++ NOTE CHANGE OF ADDRESS ON 1.7.2011 ++++ Prof. Dr. Frank Neese Max-Planck Institut für Bioanorganische Chemie Stiftstr. 34-36 D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr Germany E-Mail: neese]-[mpi-muelheim.mpg.de -------------------------------------------------------------------------