Quantum mechanical investigations of organocatalysis: mechanisms, reactivities, and selectivities

PHY Cheong, CY Legault, JM Um… - Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Organocatalysis has captured the imagination of a significant group of synthetic chemists.
Much of the mechanistic understanding of these reactions has come from computational …

Conceptual, qualitative, and quantitative theories of 1, 3‐dipolar and diels–alder cycloadditions used in synthesis

DH Ess, GO Jones, KN Houk - Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The application and performance of conceptual and qualitative theories and quantitative
quantum mechanical methods to the study of mechanism, reactivity, and selectivity of 1, 3 …

A look at the density functional theory zoo with the advanced GMTKN55 database for general main group thermochemistry, kinetics and noncovalent interactions

L Goerigk, A Hansen, C Bauer, S Ehrlich… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We present the GMTKN55 benchmark database for general main group thermochemistry,
kinetics and noncovalent interactions. Compared to its popular predecessor GMTKN30 …

An atomic-scale view of single-site Pt catalysis for low-temperature CO oxidation

AJ Therrien, AJR Hensley, MD Marcinkowski… - Nature Catalysis, 2018 - nature.com
Single-atom catalysts have attracted great attention in recent years due to their high
efficiencies and cost savings. However, there is debate concerning the nature of the active …

Optimization of parameters for semiempirical methods VI: more modifications to the NDDO approximations and re-optimization of parameters

JJP Stewart - Journal of molecular modeling, 2013 - Springer
Modern semiempirical methods are of sufficient accuracy when used in the modeling of
molecules of the same type as used as reference data in the parameterization. Outside that …

The nonlocal kernel in van der Waals density functionals as an additive correction: An extensive analysis with special emphasis on the B97M-V and ωB97M-V …

A Najibi, L Goerigk - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The development of van der Waals density functional approximations (vdW-DFAs) has
gained considerable interest over the past decade. While in a strictest sense, energy …

A thorough benchmark of density functional methods for general main group thermochemistry, kinetics, and noncovalent interactions

L Goerigk, S Grimme - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
A thorough energy benchmark study of various density functionals (DFs) is carried out with
the new GMTKN30 database for general main group thermochemistry, kinetics and …

Efficient and Accurate Double-Hybrid-Meta-GGA Density Functionals Evaluation with the Extended GMTKN30 Database for General Main Group Thermochemistry …

L Goerigk, S Grimme - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We present an extended and improved version of our recently published database for
general main group thermochemistry, kinetics, and noncovalent interactions [J. Chem …

Why the standard B3LYP/6-31G* model chemistry should not be used in DFT calculations of molecular thermochemistry: understanding and correcting the problem

H Kruse, L Goerigk, S Grimme - The Journal of organic chemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
We analyze the error compensations that are responsible for the relatively good
performance of the popular B3LYP/6-31G* model chemistry for molecular thermochemistry …

Computational chemistry

EG Lewars - Introduction to the theory and applications of molecular …, 2011 - Springer
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be
considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry. If mathematical …