Hello, dear friends.  

I have encountered serious convergence problems in the process of finding right TSs. I first conducted the calculation with maxstep=20, then decreased the step to 10, finally to 1, but as the attached figure showed, the energy was in shape oscillation and it seems much difficulty to reach the convergence criteria of displacement. 

The keywords were set as "# opt(ts,readfc,modredundant) b3lyp/6-31g(d) empirical dispersion=gd3 iop(2/15=1,5/13=1,1/11=1,1/8=1)  optcyc=50" 

Any suggestions are welcome. 

Best Regards

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