CCL: "Hyperchem-style" tools for teaching quantum chemistry for
students
- From: Grigoriy Zhurko <reg_zhurko-$-chemcraftprog.com>
- Subject: CCL: "Hyperchem-style" tools for teaching
quantum chemistry for students
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 14:24:54 +0300
Sent to CCL by: Grigoriy Zhurko [reg_zhurko,chemcraftprog.com]
Hello all,
I have implemented in my program Chemcraft integration with xtb program for
performing some QC computations. Chemcraft can now prepare an input file for
xtb, then run xtb, then read the xtb output file. Dr. Grimme wrote me that he
allowed me to add xtb to Chemcraft archive. You can download the newest version
of Chemcraft here:
https://chemcraftprog.com/newversions.html
Now I have a question: which features would you suggest for making Chemcraft a
tool for teaching the quantum chemistry for students (a competitor of the
Hyperchem program). In particular, I have ideas of the following features:
- Click a button and Chemcraft will compute Mulliken charges on atoms, and show
them as captions on atoms (already implemented);
- Click some buttons and Chemcraft will draw a molecular orbital (already
implemented);
- Select 2 atoms and Chemcraft will compute the energy of the bond between
them. If no atoms are selected, Chemcraft will compute the energies of all bonds
in molecule (not involved in cycles) and show them as captions on bonds (not yet
implemented).
- Select 2 or 3 or 4 atoms, and Chemcraft will perform a relaxed PES SCAN for
this geometrical parameter (distance or angle or dihedral), and show it in the
form of graph (not yet implemented).
What else would you suggest?
Grigoriy Zhurko.