Quantitative quantum chemistry

T Helgaker, W Klopper, DP Tew - Molecular Physics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
We review the current status of quantum chemistry as a predictive tool of chemistry and
molecular physics, capable of providing highly accurate, quantitative data about molecular …

Highly accurate calculations of molecular electronic structure

W Klopper, KL Bak, P Jørgensen, J Olsen… - Journal of Physics B …, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
The highly accurate calculation of molecular electronic structure requires the expansion of
the molecular electronic wavefunction to be as nearly complete as possible both in one-and …

Resolution-of-identity approach to Hartree–Fock, hybrid density functionals, RPA, MP2 and GW with numeric atom-centered orbital basis functions

X Ren, P Rinke, V Blum, J Wieferink… - New Journal of …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The efficient implementation of electronic structure methods is essential for first principles
modeling of molecules and solids. We present here a particularly efficient common …

Discovering chemistry with an ab initio nanoreactor

LP Wang, A Titov, R McGibbon, F Liu, VS Pande… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Chemical understanding is driven by the experimental discovery of new compounds and
reactivity, and is supported by theory and computation that provide detailed physical insight …

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 …

Parallel Douglas–Kroll energy and gradients in NWChem: Estimating scalar relativistic effects using Douglas–Kroll contracted basis sets

WA De Jong, RJ Harrison, DA Dixon - The Journal of Chemical …, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
A parallel implementation of the spin-free one-electron Douglas–Kroll–Hess (DKH)
Hamiltonian in NWChem is discussed. An efficient and accurate method to calculate DKH …

Towards standard methods for benchmark quality ab initio thermochemistry—W1 and W2 theory

JML Martin, G de Oliveira - The Journal of chemical physics, 1999 - pubs.aip.org
Two new schemes for computing molecular total atomization energies (TAEs) and/or heats
of formation (ΔH f∘) of first-and second-row compounds to very high accuracy are …

High-accuracy quantum mechanical studies of π− π interactions in benzene dimers

MO Sinnokrot, CD Sherrill - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2006 - ACS Publications
Although supramolecular chemistry and noncovalent interactions are playing an
increasingly important role in modern chemical research, a detailed understanding of …

Assessment of Gaussian-3 and density functional theories for a larger experimental test set

LA Curtiss, K Raghavachari, PC Redfern… - The Journal of chemical …, 2000 - pubs.aip.org
The G2/97 test set [J. Chem. Phys. 106, 1063 (1997)] for assessing quantum chemical
methods used to predict thermochemical data is expanded to include 75 additional …

On the effectiveness of CCSD (T) complete basis set extrapolations for atomization energies

D Feller, KA Peterson, J Grant Hill - The Journal of chemical physics, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
The leading cause of error in standard coupled cluster theory calculations of thermodynamic
properties such as atomization energies and heats of formation originates with the truncation …