@@ -213,6 +213,36 @@ The following is an example of a simple reactor system::
213213On the fly Quantum Calculations
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216+ This block is used when quantum mechanical calculations are desired to determine thermodynamic parameters.
217+ These calculations are only run if the molecule is not included in a specified thermo library.
218+ The ``onlyCyclics `` option, if ``True ``, only runs these calculations for cyclic species.
219+ In this case, group additive estimates are used for all other species.
220+
221+ Molecular geometries are estimated via RDKit [RDKit ]_.
222+ Either MOPAC (2009 and 2012) or GAUSSIAN (2003 and 2009) can be used
223+ with the semi-empirical pm3, pm6, and pm7 (pm7 only available in MOPAC2012),
224+ specified in the software and method blocks.
225+ A folder can be specified to store the files used in these calculations,
226+ however if not specified this defaults to a `QMfiles ` folder in the output folder.
227+
228+ The calculations are also only run on species with a maximum radical number set by the user.
229+ If a molecule has a higher radical number, the molecule is saturated with hydrogen atoms, then
230+ quantum mechanical calculations with subsequent hydrogen bond incrementation is used to determine the
231+ thermodynamic parameters.
232+
233+ The following is an example of the quantum mechanics options ::
234+
235+ quantumMechanics(
236+ software='mopac',
237+ method='pm3',
238+ fileStore='QMfiles',
239+ scratchDirectory = None,
240+ onlyCyclics = True,
241+ maxRadicalNumber = 0,
242+ )
243+
244+ .. [RDKit ] RDKit: Open-source cheminformatics; http://www.rdkit.org
245+
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