Locating transition states

A previously reported method for locating saddle points on multidimensional surfaces by a combination of aspects of the conjugate gradients method and the quasi‐Newton minimization method is now described with modifications to make it more robust. A number of model potentials from the literature and some ab initio molecular potential energy surfaces are used for test and comparison purposes.

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