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 …

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 …

DFT exchange: sharing perspectives on the workhorse of quantum chemistry and materials science

AM Teale, T Helgaker, A Savin, C Adamo… - Physical chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper, the history, present status, and future of density-functional theory (DFT) is
informally reviewed and discussed by 70 workers in the field, including molecular scientists …

First-principles calculations for point defects in solids

C Freysoldt, B Grabowski, T Hickel, J Neugebauer… - Reviews of modern …, 2014 - APS
Point defects and impurities strongly affect the physical properties of materials and have a
decisive impact on their performance in applications. First-principles calculations have …

Computational methods in heterogeneous catalysis

BWJ Chen, L Xu, M Mavrikakis - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The unprecedented ability of computations to probe atomic-level details of catalytic systems
holds immense promise for the fundamentals-based bottom-up design of novel …

Long-range corrected hybrid density functionals with damped atom–atom dispersion corrections

JD Chai, M Head-Gordon - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
We report re-optimization of a recently proposed long-range corrected (LC) hybrid density
functional [J.-D. Chai and M. Head-Gordon, J. Chem. Phys., 2008, 128, 084106] to include …

Density functionals with broad applicability in chemistry

Y Zhao, DG Truhlar - Accounts of chemical research, 2008 - ACS Publications
Although density functional theory is widely used in the computational chemistry community,
the most popular density functional, B3LYP, has some serious shortcomings:(i) it is better for …

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 …

Computational discovery of transition-metal complexes: from high-throughput screening to machine learning

A Nandy, C Duan, MG Taylor, F Liu, AH Steeves… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal complexes are attractive targets for the design of catalysts and functional
materials. The behavior of the metal–organic bond, while very tunable for achieving target …

Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction: A Review of Ab Initio Mechanism, Kinetics, and Multiscale Modeling Simulations

Z Kovacic, B Likozar, M Hus - ACS catalysis, 2020 - ACS Publications
Climate change has prompted scientists to search for possible ways of reducing CO2
emissions or even capturing it from the atmosphere. Catalytic reduction of CO2 into value …