Location of saddle points and minimum energy paths by a constrained simplex optimization procedure

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts - Tập 53 - Trang 75-93 - 1979
Klaus Müller1, Leo D. Brown1
1Organisch-chemisches Laboratorium der Eidg. Technischen Hochschule Zürich, Zürich, Schweiz

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Two methods are proposed, one for the location of saddle points and one for the calculation of steepest-descent paths on multidimensional surfaces. Both methods are based on a constrained simplex optimization technique that avoids the evaluation of gradients or second derivative matrices. Three chemical reactions of increasing structural complexity are studied within the PRDDO SCF approximation. Predicted properties of reaction hypersurfaces are in good overall agreement with those determined by gradient minimization and gradient following algorithms in connection with various ab initio SCF methods. Computational efforts required by the new procedures are discussed.

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