i have some compounds with high charge penalty obtained from CGenFF and i was trying to obtimize them using FFParam, however, the atoms that have a high penalty are carbon atoms such as this compound's parameters:

GROUP            ! CHARGE   CH_PENALTY ATOM C01    CG331  -0.269 !    0.000 ATOM C1     CG2O1   0.312 !   12.433 ATOM N01    NG2S3  -0.824 !    0.000 ATOM N2     NG2S1  -0.423 !    5.971 ATOM C3     CG2R61 -0.161 !   16.599 ATOM C4     CG2R61 -0.101 !    1.897 ATOM C5     CG2R61 -0.077 !    4.576 ATOM C6     CG311   0.144 !    6.278 ATOM O7     OG2D1  -0.458 !    0.000 ATOM C8     CG2R61  0.010 !    1.897 ATOM C9     CG2R61 -0.110 !    0.000 ATOM C10    CG2R61  0.157 !   16.736 ATOM C11    CG2R61  0.000 !    0.000 ATOM C12    CG2R61 -0.120 !    0.000 ATOM C13    CG2R61 -0.026 !    0.000 ATOM C14    CG2R61 -0.120 !    0.000 ATOM C16    CG331  -0.273 !   12.746 ATOM C17    CG2R61 -0.110 !    0.000 ATOM C18    CG2R61 -0.120 !    0.000 ATOM C19    CG2R61  0.096 !    0.000 ATOM C20    CG2R61 -0.110 !    0.000 ATOM C21    CG2R61 -0.117 !    0.000 ATOM C22    CG2R61 -0.110 !    0.000 ATOM HN01   HGP4    0.353 !    0.000 ATOM HN0A   HGP4    0.353 !    0.000 ATOM HN2    HGP1    0.324 !    2.830 ATOM H4     HGR61   0.115 !    0.000 ATOM H6     HGA1    0.090 !    0.000 ATOM H9     HGR61   0.115 !    0.000 ATOM H01    HGA3    0.090 !    0.000 ATOM H12    HGR61   0.115 !    0.000 ATOM H13    HGR61   0.115 !    0.000 ATOM H14    HGR61   0.115 !    0.000 ATOM H16    HGA3    0.090 !    0.000 ATOM H17    HGR61   0.115 !    0.000 ATOM H18    HGR61   0.115 !    0.000 ATOM H20    HGR61   0.115 !    0.000 ATOM H21    HGR61   0.115 !    0.000 ATOM H22    HGR61   0.115 !    0.000 ATOM H01A   HGA3    0.090 !    0.000 ATOM H01B   HGA3    0.090 !    0.000 ATOM H16A   HGA3    0.090 !    0.000 ATOM H16B   HGA3    0.090 !    0.000

in the paper of FFPAram they said that the atoms that should be optimized are the polar ones.

so i was asking how to obtimize the charge of non-polar atoms such as carbon?

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