to calculate the thermodynamic properties of a molecule, you must to achieve the ab initio or DFT calculation by G09 or G03 (Gaussian). Good luck my freind
Thanks for your reply. I am doing DFT calculation often and from that we are getting only the thermodynamic properties for room temperature. How to calculate the same for different temperatures. Kindly help me in this regard.
I agreed with Dauigui answer, our literature shows that many of the Computational Researchers are using Gaussian program for molecular simulation. I believe Gaussian will provides the suitable results for your molecule. Using the following keyword you can vary the temperature(s)
# xxx/yyy TEMP=1000
wh, xxx - method; yyy-basis set
We can also calculate the thermodynamic parameters from Gaussian output file through NIST online server. Kindly check the below link
This depends on the molecule and the property. The energy of a single molecule (to provide the heat of formation in the gas state) can be calculated well even with low-level quantum mechanical software – unless you have many conformations, of course. The entropy of a single molecule requires the prediction of the complete vibrational spectrum, and that can turn out difficult. The prediction of condensed-phase properties requires the computation of intermolecular force fields, and that requires methods like MP2 and CCSD at least and is computationally very expensive.