Affiliation:
1. NUS High School of Mathematics and Science
2. National University of Singapore
Abstract
Abstract
MNDO-based semiempirical methods in quantum chemistry have found widespread application in the modelling of large and complex systems. A method for the analytic evaluation of first and second derivatives of molecular properties against semiempirical parameters in MNDO-based NDDO-descendant models is presented, and the resultant parameter Hessian is compared against the approximant currently used in parameterization for the PMx models. As a proof of concept, the exact parameter Hessian is employed in a limited reparameterization of MNDO for the elements C, H, N, O and F using 1206 molecules for reference data.
Publisher
Research Square Platform LLC
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