Daniel H. Friese^1,a), Lisa Törk², Christof Hättig^2,b),
¹ Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry CTCC, Department of Chemistry, University of Tromsø N-9037 Tromsø Norway
² Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany

J. Chem. Phys. 141, 194106 (2014).
(Received 2 September 2014; accepted 3 November 2014; published online 18 November 2014)

We present scaling factors for vibrational frequencies calculated within the harmonic approximation and the correlated wave-function methods CC2 and MP2 with and without a spin-component scaling (SCS or SOS). Frequency scaling factors and the remaining deviations from the reference data are evaluated for several non-augmented basis sets of the cc-pVXZ family of generally contracted correlation-consistent basis sets as well as for the segmented contracted TZVPP basis. We find that the SCS and SOS variants of CC2 and MP2 lead to a slightly better accuracy for the scaled vibrational frequencies. The determined frequency scaling factors can also be used for vibrational frequencies calculated for excited states through response theory with CC2 and ADC(2) and their spin-component scaled variants.

(C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.4901725]

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