Energetics using the single point IMOMO (integrated molecular orbital+molecular orbital) calculations: Choices of computational levels and model system
- 1 September 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Vol. 105 (9), 3654-3661
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.472235
Abstract
The integrated MO+MO (IMOMO) method, recently proposed for geometry optimization, is tested for accurate single point calculations. The principle idea of the IMOMO method is to reproduce results of a high level MO calculation for a large ‘‘real’’ system by dividing it into a small ‘‘model’’ system and the rest and applying different levels of MO theory for the two parts. Test examples are the activation barrier of the S N 2 reaction of Cl−+alkyl chlorides, the C=C double bond dissociation of olefins and the energy of reaction for epoxidation of benzene. The effects of basis set and method in the lower level calculation as well as the effects of the choice of model system are investigated in detail. The IMOMO method gives an approximation to the high level MO energetics on the real system, in most cases with very small errors, with a small additional cost over the low level calculation. For instance, when the MP2 (Mo/ller–Plesset second‐order perturbation) method is used as the lower level method, the IMOMO method reproduces the results of very high level MO method within 2 kcal/mol, with less than 50% of additional computer time, for the first two test examples. When the HF (Hartree–Fock) method is used as the lower level method, it is less accurate and depends more on the choice of model system, though the improvement over the HF energy is still very significant. Thus the IMOMO single point calculation provides a method for obtaining reliable local energetics such as bond energies and activation barriers for a large molecular system.Keywords
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