Best‐practice DFT protocols for basic molecular computational chemistry

M Bursch, JM Mewes, A Hansen… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nowadays, many chemical investigations are supported by routine calculations of molecular
structures, reaction energies, barrier heights, and spectroscopic properties. The lion's share …

CRYSTAL23: A program for computational solid state physics and chemistry

A Erba, JK Desmarais, S Casassa… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The Crystal program for quantum-mechanical simulations of materials has been bridging the
realm of molecular quantum chemistry to the realm of solid state physics for many years …

Pushing the frontiers of density functionals by solving the fractional electron problem

J Kirkpatrick, B McMorrow, DHP Turban, AL Gaunt… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Density functional theory describes matter at the quantum level, but all popular
approximations suffer from systematic errors that arise from the violation of mathematical …

Late-stage diversification of indole skeletons through nitrogen atom insertion

JC Reisenbauer, O Green, A Franchino, P Finkelstein… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Compared with peripheral late-stage transformations mainly focusing on carbon–hydrogen
functionalizations, reliable strategies to directly edit the core skeleton of pharmaceutical lead …

A generally applicable atomic-charge dependent London dispersion correction

E Caldeweyher, S Ehlert, A Hansen… - The Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The so-called D4 model is presented for the accurate computation of London dispersion
interactions in density functional theory approximations (DFT-D4) and generally for atomistic …

Thirty years of density functional theory in computational chemistry: an overview and extensive assessment of 200 density functionals

N Mardirossian, M Head-Gordon - Molecular physics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In the past 30 years, Kohn–Sham density functional theory has emerged as the most popular
electronic structure method in computational chemistry. To assess the ever-increasing …

Status and challenges of density functional theory

P Verma, DG Truhlar - Trends in Chemistry, 2020 - cell.com
We discuss some of the challenges facing density functional theory (DFT) and recent
progress in DFT for both ground and excited electronic states. We discuss key aspects of the …

Revisiting the performance of time-dependent density functional theory for electronic excitations: Assessment of 43 popular and recently developed functionals from …

J Liang, X Feng, D Hait… - Journal of chemical theory …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this paper, the performance of more than 40 popular or recently developed density
functionals is assessed for the calculation of 463 vertical excitation energies against the …

Density functional theory for electrocatalysis

X Liao, R Lu, L Xia, Q Liu, H Wang… - Energy & …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
It is a considerably promising strategy to produce fuels and high‐value chemicals through
an electrochemical conversion process in the green and sustainable energy systems …

Dispersion-corrected mean-field electronic structure methods

S Grimme, A Hansen, JG Brandenburg… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Mean-field electronic structure methods like Hartree–Fock, semilocal density functional
approximations, or semiempirical molecular orbital (MO) theories do not account for long …