Supported Methods

Other considerations (such as mixed quantum and classical forces) arise when considering the complete merger of two or more methodologies in the same molecular system, but since they are not yet available in this release of HyperChem they need not be considered here. 

Note The capping atoms are only supported in the semi-empirical quantum mechanics methods in HyperChem. If you want to use the mixed model in the ab mi/io method in HyperChem, you must select an entire molecule or molecules without any boundary atom between the selected and unselected regions and then carry out the calculation. 

HyperChem currently supports one first-principle method ab initio theory), one independent-electron method (extended Hiickel theory), and eight semi-empirical SCFmethods (CNDO, INDO, MINDO/3, MNDO, AMI, PM3, ZINDO/1, and ZINDO/S). This section gives sufficient details on each method to serve as an introduction to approximate molecular orbital calculations. For further details, the original papers on each method should be consulted, as well as other research literature. References appear in the following sections. 

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