It is shown that part of what normally is considered a basis set effect on relative energies, more properly may be interpreted as intramolecular basis set superposition error.
Monomer geometry relaxation and the basis set superposition error
✍ Scribed by I. Mayer; P.R. Surján
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 161 KB
- Volume
- 191
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2614
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✦ Synopsis
Possible generalizations of the Boys-Bernardi counterpoise correction scheme to the case of relaxed monomer geometries is discussed. It is emphasized that the monomer relaxation energy should be calculated in the basis of free monomers, because it becomes ambiguous in the supermolecule basis.
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