Dear Ajay,<div><br></div><div>I would take an even number O2 molecules and set multiplicity to zero: oxygen is normally not magnetized. However, the calculation should be spin-polarized (spin-unrestricted) to allow for bond breaking and spin contamination during the reaction.</div><div><br></div><div>Yours,</div><div><br></div><div>Vladimir<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">понедельник, 20 июля 2020 г. в 02:41:47 UTC+2, mdsi...@gmail.com: <br/></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Hello
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<br>I would like to model combustion of polymer by placing the polymer in a box of oxygen. How do I set the multiplicity? For a single oxygen, it would be a triplet but what do I do for more than one? Would two oxygens have a multiplicity of 5? Would 10 oxygens have a multiplicity of 21? That doesn't seem right to me.
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<br>Once an oxidation has taken place, there would be one less triplet oxygen so starting the MD simulation as a high spin state also doesn't make sense...
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<br>Any help would be appreciated.
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<br>Thanks,
<br>Ajay </blockquote></div>