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Why is there no frozen core Au basis set with 11 valence electrons, but only Au.4d and Au.4f?

April 26, 2017AU basis core electrons frozen valence

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Why is there no frozen core Au basis set with 11 valence electrons, but only Au.4d and Au.4f?

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Au basis sets with a larger frozen core have been removed because they sometimes gave unreliable results due to the too large frozen core, although such a basis sets is still available for the BAND program.