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Re^4: How to find out, some basis is spherical or cartesian?

Vyacheslav
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On Wed Jan 20 '10 0:23am, Roman Zubatyuk wrote
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OK, Roman. Then some more questions:
1) If Firefly ignores the d5 option for spherical basis sets (as Sanya speaks about it), then how the program finds out that this basis set is spherical? Personally I do not allow Firefly to read any articles.

2) Childlike question: what for the d5 option is necessary? It is not necessary for spherical basis sets, and for cartesian ones it is better no to use this option, since it misrepresents results - it was already discussed at this forum earlier and also I have own sad experience of this option' use for Cartesian basis set. Probably I do not understand something...
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> Some bases are were parametrized with cartesian d and higher functions, some with spherical. So, in general, you need to look at the original paper presenting the basis set. Most of the modern basis sets were parametrized using spherical harmonics. Pople's 6-31G basis sets were parametrized with cartesian d-functions, but 6-311G were not.

>Regards,
> Roman.

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