From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Fri Feb 26 07:48:01 2016 From: "Bulumoni Kalita bulumoni:dibru.ac.in" To: CCL Subject: CCL:G: SCF convergence problem with M06L functional in Gaussian 09 Message-Id: <-52051-160226001221-7617-fFz6YrRz0kX+/THD21KhBg|-|server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: "Bulumoni Kalita" Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:12:19 -0500 Sent to CCL by: "Bulumoni Kalita" [bulumoni- -dibru.ac.in] Dear CCL users, I have optimized tetrahedral structure of Pd4 cluster in (UB3LYP/LANL2DZ) level in Gaussian 09. I wanted to repeat the calculation in (UM06L/LANL2DZ) level. However, SCF is not converging in this case. Rather it is fluctuating between to range of values. I have tried using SCF(xqc, maxcycle=500), opt(maxcycle=500) etc. Please give your valuable suggestions to overcome this problem.