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 …

Extended tight‐binding quantum chemistry methods

C Bannwarth, E Caldeweyher, S Ehlert… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This review covers a family of atomistic, mostly quantum chemistry (QC) based
semiempirical methods for the fast and reasonably accurate description of large molecules …

GFN2-xTB—An accurate and broadly parametrized self-consistent tight-binding quantum chemical method with multipole electrostatics and density-dependent …

C Bannwarth, S Ehlert, S Grimme - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2019 - ACS Publications
An extended semiempirical tight-binding model is presented, which is primarily designed for
the fast calculation of structures and noncovalent interaction energies for molecular systems …

Automated exploration of the low-energy chemical space with fast quantum chemical methods

P Pracht, F Bohle, S Grimme - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We propose and discuss an efficient scheme for the in silico sampling for parts of the
molecular chemical space by semiempirical tight-binding methods combined with a meta …

[HTML][HTML] DFTB+, a software package for efficient approximate density functional theory based atomistic simulations

B Hourahine, B Aradi, V Blum, F Bonafe… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
DFTB+ is a versatile community developed open source software package offering fast and
efficient methods for carrying out atomistic quantum mechanical simulations. By …

r2SCAN-3c: A “Swiss army knife” composite electronic-structure method

S Grimme, A Hansen, S Ehlert… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The recently proposed r 2 SCAN meta-generalized-gradient approximation (mGGA) of
Furness and co-workers is used to construct an efficient composite electronic-structure …

Towards the online computer-aided design of catalytic pockets

L Falivene, Z Cao, A Petta, L Serra, A Poater, R Oliva… - Nature Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
The engineering of catalysts with desirable properties can be accelerated by computer-
aided design. To achieve this aim, features of molecular catalysts can be condensed into …

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 …

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 …

Exploration of chemical compound, conformer, and reaction space with meta-dynamics simulations based on tight-binding quantum chemical calculations

S Grimme - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2019 - ACS Publications
The semiempirical tight-binding based quantum chemistry method GFN2-xTB is used in the
framework of meta-dynamics (MTD) to globally explore chemical compound, conformer, and …