Tuesday, 18 August 2015

physical chemistry - how are the frequencies at a local maximum of PES like?


On the potential energy surface, if you find a local maximum and calculate its frequencies in Gaussian or something like that, will you get all negative frequencies or all positive frequencies? I know that at a local minimum the frequencies are all positive and that at a saddle point there are both negative and positive frequencies, but what about a maximum point?




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