MOPAC®

What MOPAC is
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  MOPAC (Molecular Orbital PACkage) is a semiempirical quantum chemistry program based on Dewar and Thiel's NDDO approximation.    Most users use MOPAC with a Graphical User Interface.
 
MOPAC2016   MOPAC2016 is MOPAC2012 with improved handling of biomolecules.  If a bug is detected, please send a message along with an example illustrating the bug.  To download MOPAC, go to download.
Instructions for use with Chem3D.
 
PM7   PM7 is a modified form of PM6. A few errors in NDDO theory that affect large systems have been removed.  All atomic and diatomic parameters were re-optimized.  Average errors in organic compounds have been reduced by ~10%, and errors in large organics and solids have been significantly reduced, see PM7 and PM6-D3H4 Accuracy and JSmol representations of Molecules, Solids, and Animations.
 
Recent publications   Abstracts of recent articles, and links to files that were used for generating the results, can be viewed
References
and Citations
  MOPAC2016   MOPAC2009PM6PM7
Instructions and Manual   A manual is available for MOPAC2016.  Please try finding answers to questions there before sending an E-mail message requesting help. For individual topics of interest, see Discussion Topics.
 
Maintenance record     MOPAC2016 is under constant maintenance.  If your copy of MOPAC2016 does not work correctly, check the maintenance record to see if there is a more up-to-date version.
 

PM6

  PM6 is a re-parameterization of the NDDO method.  Three modifications to the approximations were made, these mainly affect the way the core-core interaction was defined.  Parameters were optimized for most elements, the exceptions being 12 of the lanthanides and all of the actinides.  The lanthanides can be represented by sparkles.  For details, see the on-line PM6 journal article, and its supplementary material.
 
Downloads   Downloads of source and  binaries for the various older versions of MOPAC are available, as well as utility programs such as BZ and MAKPOL.
 
History   MOPAC was started in 1981, and has been under continuous development since then.
 
Older MOPAC Programs   MOPAC2012 is MOPAC2009 plus PM7 and PM7-TS. 
MOPAC2009 is MOPAC2007 plus the MOZYME function.  MOZYME is a linear-scaling SCF method that allows systems of up to 15,000 atoms to be modeled.
MOPAC2007 was an improved version of MOPAC 7.1. In addition to the methods in MOPAC 7.1, it also included RM1 and PM6.
MOPAC 7.1 is a FORTRAN 90 version of MOPAC 7. It supports the methods: MNDO, AM1, and PM3, as well as Sparkle/AM1 for the lanthanides. All published NDDO parameter sets were supported. It is fully in the public domain. (Download source)
 
Availability   Windows, Linux, CentOS-6, CentOS-7, and Mac versions are supported.
 
Cooperative Development   The purpose of this site is to encourage cooperative development.  There is a default mechanism for contributing improvements.
 

The mark "MOPAC" is a trademark of James Stewart
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