PathOpt--a global transition state search approach : outline of algorithm

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of computational chemistry. - 1984. - 34(2013), 21 vom: 05. Aug., Seite 1810-8
1. Verfasser: Grebner, Christoph (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Pason, Lukas P, Engels, Bernd
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2013
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of computational chemistry
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:Copyright © 2013 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
We propose a new algorithm to determine reaction paths and test its capability for Ar12 and Ar13 clusters. Its main ingredient is a search for the local minima on a (n-1) dimensional hyperplane (n = dimension of the complete system in Cartesian coordinates) lying perpendicular to the straight line connection between initial and final states. These minima are part of possible reaction paths and are, hence, used as starting points for an uphill search to the next transition state. First, path fragments are obtained from subsequent relaxations starting from these transition states. They can be combined with information from the straight line connection procedure to obtain complete paths. Our test computations for Ar12 and Ar13 clusters prove that PathOpt delivers several reaction paths in one round
Beschreibung:Date Completed 13.01.2014
Date Revised 01.07.2013
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1096-987X
DOI:10.1002/jcc.23307