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cy21d042

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Registered: 2022-11-21

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Fragment PDOS plot

I am trying to generate a PDOS plot for a molecule of different donor-acceptor units. Which output fch file shall I use for this fragment PDOS ( energy or optimization)? I am using Gaussian to generate the output files.

Thanking you in advance.

sobereva

Tian Lu (Multiwfn developer)

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Re: Fragment PDOS plot

You can use either of them (if calculation levels for both tasks are reasonable)

cy21d042

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Registered: 2022-11-21

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Re: Fragment PDOS plot

I am using the following Gaussian input file for the DOS calculations.

%nprocshared=8
%mem=4GB
%chk=Y6.chk
# b3lyp/6-31++g(d,p) iop(3/33=1,3/36=-1) pop=full scrf=(solvent=chloroform,pcm) empiricaldispersion=gd3bj

.....
Is it correct?

Thank you in advance.

sobereva

Tian Lu (Multiwfn developer)

From: Beijing

Registered: 2017-09-11

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Re: Fragment PDOS plot

"iop(3/33=1,3/36=-1) pop=full" are fully redundant, they do not affect wavefunction recorded in .chk/fch file, which is need by plotting PDOS in Multiwfn.