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 …

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 …

Semiempirical GGA‐type density functional constructed with a long‐range dispersion correction

S Grimme - Journal of computational chemistry, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
A new density functional (DF) of the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) type for
general chemistry applications termed B97-D is proposed. It is based on Becke's power …

The M06 suite of density functionals for main group thermochemistry, thermochemical kinetics, noncovalent interactions, excited states, and transition elements: two …

Y Zhao, DG Truhlar - Theoretical chemistry accounts, 2008 - Springer
We present two new hybrid meta exchange-correlation functionals, called M06 and M06-2X.
The M06 functional is parametrized including both transition metals and nonmetals, whereas …

[BOOK][B] Introduction to computational chemistry

F Jensen - 2017 - books.google.com
Introduction to Computational Chemistry 3rd Edition provides a comprehensive account of
the fundamental principles underlying different computational methods. Fully revised and …

Density functional theory is straying from the path toward the exact functional

MG Medvedev, IS Bushmarinov, J Sun, JP Perdew… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The theorems at the core of density functional theory (DFT) state that the energy of a many-
electron system in its ground state is fully defined by its electron density distribution. This …

MN15: A Kohn–Sham global-hybrid exchange–correlation density functional with broad accuracy for multi-reference and single-reference systems and noncovalent …

SY Haoyu, X He, SL Li, DG Truhlar - Chemical science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Kohn–Sham density functionals are widely used; however, no currently available exchange–
correlation functional can predict all chemical properties with chemical accuracy. Here we …

Systematic optimization of long-range corrected hybrid density functionals

JD Chai, M Head-Gordon - The Journal of chemical physics, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
A general scheme for systematically modeling long-range corrected (LC) hybrid density
functionals is proposed. Our resulting two LC hybrid functionals are shown to be accurate in …

Design of density functionals by combining the method of constraint satisfaction with parametrization for thermochemistry, thermochemical kinetics, and noncovalent …

Y Zhao, NE Schultz, DG Truhlar - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2006 - ACS Publications
We present a new hybrid meta exchange-correlation functional, called M05-2X, for
thermochemistry, thermochemical kinetics, and noncovalent interactions. We also provide a …

Semiempirical hybrid density functional with perturbative second-order correlation

S Grimme - The Journal of chemical physics, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
A new hybrid density functional for general chemistry applications is proposed. It is based on
a mixing of standard generalized gradient approximations (GGAs) for exchange by Becke …