What do you do when you have a calculation that end by saying "normal termination of Gaussian" but the maximum and RMS displacements didn't converged?

Mathieu Morency @Mathieu_Morency2

08 August 2018 1 4K Report

Here is my input and the structure optimized (without convergence for the maximum and RMS displacement).

Mathieu Morency

Thank you very much Andy. Great advice.

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