I'm currently working with computations on paramagnetic species, so being able to read the geometry from the chk-file is important in order to avoid having to define the multiplicities of all the segments of the molecule.
I also can't use def2-tzvp for the entire molecule since the .chk files during freq cals become too big for my current storage allocation (>500 gb). The work is exploratory at the moment, so compromises are OK.
I first run a calc with a small basis set:
I then want to optimise the structure obtained at def2-svp using a mixed basis set where I use def2-tzvp for all the cobalt centres, and def2-svp for the organic bits.%nprocshared=28 %Mem=24gb %Chk=I1_hs.chk #P uPBE1PBE/def2svp 5D 7F Punch=(MO) Pop=() guess=(fragment=8,only) nosymm intermediate 1, pbe0/def-svp. 0 9 -2 1 0 1 0 1 -3 1 -1 1 0 1 4 4 2 6 S(fragment=1) -7.953777000 -0.003180000 -2.912460000 O(fragment=1) -3.008379000 -0.432531000 -1.322496000 ... --Link1-- %nprocshared=28 %mem=24gb %chk=I1_hs.chk #P uPBE1PBE/chkbasis 5D 7F Opt=() SCRF=(PCM,Solvent=water) Punch=(MO) Pop=() guess=read geom=allcheck nosymm
The basis set definitions are in blue, and the ecp bit is in red.%nprocshared=28 %Mem=24gb %oldChk=I1_hs.chk %chk=I1_hs_tzvp.chk #P uPBE1PBE/genecp 5D 7F Opt=() SCRF=(PCM,Solvent=water) Punch=(MO) Pop=() guess=read geom=allcheck nosymm C H N O 0 def2svp **** Co 0 def2tzvp **** Co 0 def2