Dear Ahmed,
If you are dealing with large molecules then I will
recommend you to
minimise your system using MM first . Because sometime the crystal
structure
itself contains some guess part. Thus a MM minimised structure will give
you a
better structure to start with .Hope this helps
Regards
Tanmoy
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Ahmed Ayoub <atayoub.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> Dear Amber experts,
>
> I'm doing a hybrid QM/MM minimization using Gaussian 09 as an external QM
> agent. When I specify the number of minimization steps in the CTRL
> namelist, I sometimes notice a bizarre behaviour. The minimizer keeps
> minimizing the SCF energy and at one point of time, the SCF energy rises up
> again, sometimes tremendously, and again the minimzer restarts minimizing.
> This keeps going till the max number of cycles is reached which could yield
> an unminimized structure. This is kind of not what I want. I want basically
> to reach convergence on the energy of the QM region. Is there any way to
> avoid this behavior, or to specify a certain gradient for convergence
> instead of using the maximum cycle approach?
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Ahmed
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