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 …

[HTML][HTML] TURBOMOLE: Modular program suite for ab initio quantum-chemical and condensed-matter simulations

SG Balasubramani, GP Chen, S Coriani… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
TURBOMOLE is a collaborative, multi-national software development project aiming to
provide highly efficient and stable computational tools for quantum chemical simulations of …

[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 …

Enantioselective electrochemical cobalt-catalyzed aryl C–H activation reactions

T von Münchow, S Dana, Y Xu, B Yuan, L Ackermann - Science, 2023 - science.org
Enantioselective redox transformations typically rely on costly transition metals as catalysts
and often stoichiometric amounts of chemical redox agents as well. Electrocatalysis …

Robust and efficient implicit solvation model for fast semiempirical methods

S Ehlert, M Stahn, S Spicher… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
We present a robust and efficient method to implicitly account for solvation effects in modern
semiempirical quantum mechanics and force fields. A computationally efficient yet accurate …