The Natural Bond Orbital (NBO) program is a discovery tool for chemical insights from complex wavefunctions. NBO is a broad suite of 'natural' algorithms for optimally expressing numerical solutions of Schrödinger's wave equation in the chemically intuitive language of Lewis-like bonding patterns and associated resonance-type 'donor-acceptor' interactions.
Availability and Restrictions
Versions
NBO is available on Owens. The versions currently available at OSC are
| Version | Owens |
|---|---|
| 6.0 | X* |
You can use module spider nbo to view available modules for a given machine. Feel free to contact OSC Help if you need other versions for your work.
Access for Academic Users
NBO is available to non-commercial users; simply contact OSC Help to request the appropriate form for access.
Publisher/Vendor/Repository and License Type
University of Wisconsin System on behalf of the Theoretical Chemistry Institute, Non-Commercial
Usage
Usage on Owens
To set up your environment for NBO load one of its modulefiles:
module load nbo/6.0
For documentation corresponding to a loaded version, see $OSC_NBO_HOME/man/. Below is an example batch script that uses the i8 executables of NBO 6.0. This script specifies the Bash shell; for C type shells convert the export command to setenv syntax. The i4 executables are also installed and may be required by some quantum chemistry packages, e.g., ORCA as of Oct 2019. You can find other example inputs in ~srb/workshops/compchem/, such as ~srb/workshops/compchem/gaussian/nbo6.*.
#!/bin/bash # Example NBO 6.0 batch script. #SBATCH --job-name nbo-ch3nh2 #SBATCH --mail-type=ALL,END #SBATCH --time=0:10:00 #SBATCH --nodes=1 --ntasks-per-node=1 #SBATCH --account <account> qstat -f $SLURM_JOB_ID export module load nbo/6.0 module list cd $SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR pbsdcp --preserve ch3nh2.47 $TMPDIR cd $TMPDIR export NBOEXE=$OSC_NBO_HOME/bin/nbo6.i8.exe gennbo.i8.exe ch3nh2.47 ls -l pbsdcp --preserve --gather --recursive '*' $SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR
