General performance of density functionals

SF Sousa, PA Fernandes… - The Journal of Physical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
The density functional theory (DFT) foundations date from the 1920s with the work of
Thomas and Fermi, but it was after the work of Hohenberg, Kohn, and Sham in the 1960s …

Modeling the kinetics of bimolecular reactions

A Fernández-Ramos, JA Miller, SJ Klippenstein… - Chemical …, 2006 - ACS Publications
This review is concerned with the theoretical and computational modeling of bimolecular
reactions, especially with generally applicable methods for kinetics (ie, overall rates as …

Gaussian-4 theory

LA Curtiss, PC Redfern, K Raghavachari - The Journal of chemical …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The Gaussian-4 theory (G4 theory) for the calculation of energies of compounds containing
first-(Li–F), second-(Na–Cl), and third-row main group (K, Ca, and Ga–Kr) atoms is …

Gaussian-4 theory using reduced order perturbation theory

LA Curtiss, PC Redfern, K Raghavachari - The Journal of chemical …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
Two modifications of Gaussian-4 (G4) theory [LA Curtiss et al, J. Chem. Phys. 126, 084108
(2007)] are presented in which second-and third-order perturbation theories are used in …

Development of a predictive model for corrosion inhibition of carbon steel by imidazole and benzimidazole derivatives

E Gutiérrez, JA Rodríguez, J Cruz-Borbolla… - Corrosion …, 2016 - Elsevier
The corrosion inhibition efficiency of carbon steel was evaluated using fifteen molecules
derivated from imidazole and benzimidazole in 1.0 M HCl. The inhibition efficiency varies …

Benchmark databases for nonbonded interactions and their use to test density functional theory

Y Zhao, DG Truhlar - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2005 - ACS Publications
We present four benchmark databases of binding energies for nonbonded complexes. Four
types of nonbonded interactions are considered: hydrogen bonding, charge transfer, dipole …

Doubly hybrid meta DFT: New multi-coefficient correlation and density functional methods for thermochemistry and thermochemical kinetics

Y Zhao, BJ Lynch, DG Truhlar - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2004 - ACS Publications
This paper presents two new multi-coefficient correlation and density functional methods
based on mixing scaling-all-correlation (SAC) theory and hybrid meta density functional …

Assessment of Gaussian-3 and density-functional theories on the G3/05 test set of experimental energies

LA Curtiss, PC Redfern, K Raghavachari - The Journal of chemical …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
The G3/99 test set [LA Curtiss, K. Raghavachari, PC Redfern, and JA Pople, J. Chem. Phys.
112, 7374 (2000)] of thermochemical data for validation of quantum chemical methods is …

The correlation consistent composite approach (ccCA): An alternative to the Gaussian-n methods

NJ DeYonker, TR Cundari, AK Wilson - The Journal of chemical …, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
An alternative to the Gaussian-n (G1, G2, and G3) composite methods of computing
molecular energies is proposed and is named the “correlation consistent composite …

Small representative benchmarks for thermochemical calculations

BJ Lynch, DG Truhlar - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2003 - ACS Publications
We propose a small set of atomization energies and a small set of barrier heights as
benchmarks for comparing and developing theoretical methods. We chose the data sets to …