---
name: "run_mopac7"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mopac7-bin"
version: "1.15-7"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/run_mopac7"
---

# run\_mopac7(1)

invoke mopac7 program

## NAME

run\_mopac7 - invoke mopac7 program

## SYNOPSIS

**run\_mopac7** *name*

## DESCRIPTION

MOPAC provides routines to solve the electronic structure of molecules on a semi-empirical level. Available methods include MNDO, MINDO/3, AM1 and PM3.

**run\_mopac7** will read input from *name.dat* and write output to *name.out*, also  write restart file to *name.res*, density matrix to *name.den*, logfile to *name.log* and archive/summary file to *name.arc*.

## SEE ALSO

[**mpqc**(1)](/mpqc/1.md)

## AUTHOR

MOPAC7 originally is a work of James J. P. Stewart and co-workers. The MOPAC7 package used as a base for this work was obtained from

        *http://www.bioinformatics.org/ghemical/download/current/*

Older versions can be obtained from

        *http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mopac7/*\
         *ftp://esca.atomki.hu/mopac7/LINUX/*

Changes made by **Tommi Hassinen**, University of Kuopio, Finland, April 2001. email \<thassine@messi.uku.fi\>.

This manual page was written by **LI Daobing** \<lidaobing@gmail.com\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).