The theoretical treatment of chemical reactions inevitably includes the integration of reaction pathways. After reactant, transition structure, and product stationary points on the potential energy surface are located, steepest descent reaction path following provides a means for verifying reaction mechanisms. Accurately integrated paths are also needed when evaluating reaction rates using variational transition state theory or reaction path Hamiltonian models. In this work an Euler-based predictor–corrector integrator is presented and tested using one analytic model surface and five chemical reactions. The use of Hessian updating, as a means for reducing the overall computational cost of the reaction path calculation, is also discussed.

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