Challenges for density functional theory

AJ Cohen, P Mori-Sánchez, W Yang - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
Density functional theory (DFT) of electronic structure has made an unparalleled impact on
the application of quantum mechanics to interesting and challenging problems in chemistry …

Relativistic heavy-neighbor-atom effects on NMR shifts: Concepts and trends across the periodic table

J Vı́cha, J Novotny, S Komorovsky, M Straka… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Chemical shifts present crucial information about an NMR spectrum. They show the
influence of the chemical environment on the nuclei being probed. Relativistic effects …

Chemistry with ADF

G Te Velde, FM Bickelhaupt… - Journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
We present the theoretical and technical foundations of the Amsterdam Density Functional
(ADF) program with a survey of the characteristics of the code (numerical integration, density …

Toward reliable density functional methods without adjustable parameters: The PBE0 model

C Adamo, V Barone - The Journal of chemical physics, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
We present an analysis of the performances of a parameter free density functional model
(PBE0) obtained combining the so called PBE generalized gradient functional with a …

Nucleus-independent chemical shifts (NICS) as an aromaticity criterion

Z Chen, CS Wannere, C Corminboeuf, R Puchta… - Chemical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
Few concepts are as frequently used as aromaticity in the current chemical literature. 1 This
may be quantified by ca. 300 000 papers dealing with the aromatic properties of chemical …

A comparison of models for calculating nuclear magnetic resonance shielding tensors

JR Cheeseman, GW Trucks, TA Keith… - The Journal of chemical …, 1996 - pubs.aip.org
The direct (recomputation of two‐electron integrals) implementation of the gauge‐including
atomic orbital (GIAO) and the CSGT (continuous set of gauge transformations) methods for …

31P Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy as a Probe of Thorium–Phosphorus Bond Covalency: Correlating Phosphorus Chemical Shift to Metal–Phosphorus …

J Du, J Hurd, JA Seed, G Balázs… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report the use of solution and solid-state 31P Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
spectroscopy combined with Density Functional Theory calculations to benchmark the …

What can NMR spectroscopy of selenoureas and phosphinidenes teach us about the π-accepting abilities of N-heterocyclic carbenes?

SVC Vummaleti, DJ Nelson, A Poater… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The electronic nature of the interaction of NHCs with metal centres is of interest when
exploring their properties, how these properties influence those of metal complexes, and …

Calculation of current densities using gauge-including atomic orbitals

J Jusélius, D Sundholm, J Gauss - The Journal of chemical physics, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
A method for calculating the various components of the magnetically induced current-density
tensor using gauge-including atomic orbitals is described. The method is formulated in the …

Density functional calculations of nuclear magnetic shieldings using the zeroth-order regular approximation (ZORA) for relativistic effects: ZORA nuclear magnetic …

SK Wolff, T Ziegler, E Van Lenthe… - The Journal of chemical …, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
We present a new relativistic formulation for the calculation of nuclear magnetic resonance
(NMR) shielding tensors. The formulation makes use of gauge-including atomic orbitals and …