Abstract
Two variants of a successive quadratic minimization method (SQM and c-SQM) are suggested to calculate the structural properties of molecular systems at the complete basis set (CBS) limit. When applied to H3+, H2O, CH2O, SH2, and SO2, they revealed CBS/(x1, x2) structural parameters that significantly surpass the raw ones calculated at the x2 basis set level. Such a performance has also been verified for the intricate case of the water dimer. Because the c-SQM method is system specific, thus showing somewhat enhanced results relative to the general SQM protocol, it can be of higher cost depending on the level of calibration used. Yet, it hardly surpasses the general quality of the results obtained with the cost-effective SQM method. Since the number of cycles required to reach convergence is relatively small, both schemes are simple to use and easily adaptable to any of the existing extrapolation schemes for the Hartree-Fock and correlation energies.
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