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Re^4: Imaginary frequency

Dear Mridula,
You could also try tightening the DFT grid using LMAX and NRAD. Do check the manual. Also have a careful look at the structure, in case if you have not terminated the edges well.

Regards,

On Tue Jul 21 '15 4:54pm, Alex Granovsky wrote
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>Dear Mridula Guin,

>you need to examine this frequency.
>The simplest way to do this is to use ChemCraft.

>Open your output file in ChemCraft and look at the problematic
>normal mode. You will be able to check if it is a vibration or
>rather a rotation or translation. If it is indeed a vibration,
>create a geometry that is displaced along this mode and re-optimize
>this new structure from the scratch.

>Kind regards,
>Alex Granovsky
>
>
>On Mon Jul 20 '15 7:50am, Mridula Guin wrote
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>>Dearv Alex sir,
>>The magnitude is 33.04 cm-1.Please tell me how to get rid of this negative frequency.

>>On Mon Jul 20 '15 1:07am, Alex Granovsky wrote
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>>>Hello,

>>>The excluded frequency is imaginary (this frequency is marked as
>>>negative in the printout section). This means that your structure
>>>is not a minimum on a PES but rather is a saddle point on a PES.
>>>What is the magnitude of the imaginary/negative frequency?

>>>Kind regards,
>>>Alex Granovsky
>>>
>>>
>>>On Fri Jul 17 '15 8:33am, Mridula Guin wrote
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>>>>Dear firefly users
>>>>During performing frequency calculation, in the thermochemistry section for an optimized geometry I am getting an imaginary frequency which is excluded. My question is whether the structure is stable or not? You can have a look to the part of the logfile below. Please help me to understand this.

>>>>Thanks in advance..

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>>>> THERMOCHEMISTRY AT T= 298.15 K

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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> USING IDEAL GAS, RIGID ROTOR, HARMONIC NORMAL MODE APPROXIMATIONS.

>>>> P= 1.01325E+05 PASCAL.

>>>> ALL FREQUENCIES ARE SCALED BY 1.00000

>>>> THE MOMENTS OF INERTIA ARE (IN AMU*BOHR**2)

>>>> 480.71546 2956.60067 3437.31425

>>>> THE ROTATIONAL SYMMETRY NUMBER IS 1.0

>>>> THE ROTATIONAL CONSTANTS ARE (IN GHZ)

>>>> 3.75084 0.60985 0.52456

>>>> 1 IMAGINARY FREQUENCY VIBRATION(S) IS(ARE) EXCLUDED