Calculating Energies and Enthalpies

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Hi,

I wish to reconcile how to treat the corrections to the calculated energy in order to report correctly the Zero-point energy and the Enthalpy for a system of hydrogen bonded complexes.

Upon doing a geo/opt with MP2/aug-cc-pVDZ for a hydrogen bonded system you get energy X a.u.
Then doing a vib freq analysis you get the corrections ... an example:

Zero-Point correction to Energy = 89.053 kcal/mol ( 0.141916 au)
Thermal correction to Energy = 95.892 kcal/mol ( 0.152813 au)
Thermal correction to Enthalpy = 96.484 kcal/mol ( 0.153757 au)

Therefore to get the ZPE do you take X + ZPE Correction? And then likewise for the enthalpy you take X + Thermal Correction to Enthalpy? Or is it some other combination of these corrections? Then upon taking the products-reactants would you also have to add a ?PV value to the get the true enthalpy (H) or is that already included in the corrections?

I have attempted to determine the correct methodology by searching journal articles and in the online NWChem documentation but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Janos

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Answer - from Eric Bylaska (personal communication)
http://www.nwchem-sw.org/index.php/NWPW#NWPW_Tutorial_3:_using_isodesmic_reaction_energies...

The enthalpy of a molecule at 298.15K is sum of the total energy and a thermal correction to the enthalpy. A good estimate for the thermal correction to the enthalpy can be obtained from a frequency calculation, i.e.

H = E + Hcorrection

Thermodynamic output from a frequency calculation: ...


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