Model chemistry recommendations for scaled harmonic frequency calculations: A benchmark study

JC Zapata Trujillo, LK McKemmish - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Despite the widespread popularity of scaled harmonic frequency calculations to predict
experimental fundamental frequencies in chemistry, sparse benchmarking is available to …

Meta‐analysis of uniform scaling factors for harmonic frequency calculations

JC Zapata Trujillo… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Vibrational frequency calculations performed under the harmonic approximation are
widespread across chemistry. However, it is well‐known that the calculated harmonic …

VIBFREQ1295: A new database for vibrational frequency calculations

JC Zapata Trujillo, LK McKemmish - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
High-throughput approaches for producing approximate vibrational spectral data for
molecules of astrochemistry interest rely on harmonic frequency calculations using …

Anharmonic vibrational frequency calculations are not worthwhile for small basis sets

RL Jacobsen, RD Johnson III, KK Irikura… - Journal of Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Anharmonic calculations using vibrational perturbation theory are known to provide near-
spectroscopic accuracy when combined with high-level ab initio potential energy functions …

Assessment of CCSD (T)-F12 approximations and basis sets for harmonic vibrational frequencies

JML Martin, MK Kesharwani - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We consider basis set convergence and the effect of various approximations to CCSD (T)-
F12 for a representative sample of harmonic frequencies (the HFREQ2014 set). CCSD …

Harmonic vibrational frequencies: scale factors for pure, hybrid, hybrid meta, and double‐hybrid functionals in conjunction with correlation consistent basis sets

ML Laury, SE Boesch, I Haken, P Sinha… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Scale factors for (a) low (< 1000 cm− 1) and high harmonic vibrational frequencies,(b)
thermal contributions to enthalpy and entropy, and (c) zero‐point vibrational energies have …

Comprehensive benchmark results for the accuracy of basis sets for anharmonic molecular vibrations

H Mitra, TK Roy - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2020 - ACS Publications
The accuracy and convergence of a series of commonly used split-valence electronic basis
sets are systematically investigated for the anharmonic molecular vibrational spectroscopic …

Scaling factors and uncertainties for ab initio anharmonic vibrational frequencies

RD Johnson III, KK Irikura, RN Kacker… - Journal of Chemical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
To predict the vibrational spectra of molecules, ab initio calculations are often used to
compute harmonic frequencies, which are usually scaled by empirical factors as an …

Computational thermochemistry: scale factor databases and scale factors for vibrational frequencies obtained from electronic model chemistries

IM Alecu, J Zheng, Y Zhao… - Journal of chemical theory …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Optimized scale factors for calculating vibrational harmonic and fundamental frequencies
and zero-point energies have been determined for 145 electronic model chemistries …

Frequency and zero-point vibrational energy scale factors for double-hybrid density functionals (and other selected methods): can anharmonic force fields be avoided …

MK Kesharwani, B Brauer… - The Journal of Physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We have obtained uniform frequency scaling factors λharm (for harmonic frequencies), λfund
(for fundamentals), and λZPVE (for zero-point vibrational energies (ZPVEs)) for the Weigend …