Getting started with NWChem - Convergence problem


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You have increased the allowable iterations for SCF electronic convergence but you need to increase the allowable iterations for geometry optimization. You should also check your transition state solution by running a frequency calculation and looking for a single imaginary frequency. To get a good TS solution you need to make the geometry convergence tighter than default. Your SCF threshold was too loose for this job. Here's an input file that should work better:

charge 0
memory 3000 mb

geometry autosym
 S  -1.139420 -0.181760 -0.065320
 O  -0.603930 0.894620 -0.859210
 O  -0.327300 -1.144590 0.633970
 O  -2.146750 0.489400 0.987400
 O  -2.158340 -1.022960 -0.975080
 H  -2.473210 1.320810 0.584900
 H  -2.293600 -1.887270 -0.534180
end

basis  "ao basis" spherical
 * library 6-31G 
end

scf
 singlet
 thresh 1e-4
end

driver
  tight
  maxiter 999
end

task scf saddle
task scf frequencies