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 …

[HTML][HTML] Software for the frontiers of quantum chemistry: An overview of developments in the Q-Chem 5 package

E Epifanovsky, ATB Gilbert, X Feng, J Lee… - The Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This article summarizes technical advances contained in the fifth major release of the Q-
Chem quantum chemistry program package, covering developments since 2015. A …

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 …

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 …

Combining machine learning and computational chemistry for predictive insights into chemical systems

JA Keith, V Vassilev-Galindo, B Cheng… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Machine learning models are poised to make a transformative impact on chemical sciences
by dramatically accelerating computational algorithms and amplifying insights available from …

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 …

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 …

PhysNet: A neural network for predicting energies, forces, dipole moments, and partial charges

OT Unke, M Meuwly - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2019 - ACS Publications
In recent years, machine learning (ML) methods have become increasingly popular in
computational chemistry. After being trained on appropriate ab initio reference data, these …