Computational studies of synthetically relevant homogeneous organometallic catalysis involving Ni, Pd, Ir, and Rh: an overview of commonly employed DFT methods …

T Sperger, IA Sanhueza, I Kalvet… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The field of organometallic catalysis has attracted considerable interest from both academia
and industry due to its broad applications in synthetic transformations. Pd, Ni, Rh, and Ir …

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 …

Assessing density functional theory for chemically relevant open-shell transition metal reactions

LR Maurer, M Bursch, S Grimme… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Due to the principle lack of systematic improvement possibilities of density functional theory,
careful assessment of the performance of density functional approximations (DFAs) on well …

Perspective: Kohn-Sham density functional theory descending a staircase

HS Yu, SL Li, DG Truhlar - The Journal of chemical physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
This article presents a perspective on Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) for
electronic structure calculations in chemical physics. This theory is in widespread use for …

Multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory

G Li Manni, RK Carlson, S Luo, D Ma… - Journal of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We present a new theoretical framework, called Multiconfiguration Pair-Density Functional
Theory (MC-PDFT), which combines multiconfigurational wave functions with a …

Density functional theory for transition metals and transition metal chemistry

CJ Cramer, DG Truhlar - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
We introduce density functional theory and review recent progress in its application to
transition metal chemistry. Topics covered include local, meta, hybrid, hybrid meta, and …

The accuracy of DFT-optimized geometries of functional transition metal compounds: a validation study of catalysts for olefin metathesis and other reactions in the …

Y Minenkov, Å Singstad, G Occhipinti… - Dalton Transactions, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
We have investigated the performance of eight popular density functionals, four of which are
“standard” functionals not including dispersion (B3LYP, BP86, PBE, and TPSS) and four of …

Bulk properties of transition metals: a challenge for the design of universal density functionals

P Janthon, S Luo, SM Kozlov, F Vines… - Journal of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Systematic evaluation of the accuracy of exchange-correlation functionals is essential to
guide scientists in their choice of an optimal method for a given problem when using density …

Progress and challenges in the calculation of electronic excited states

L González, D Escudero, L Serrano‐Andrés - ChemPhysChem, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A detailed understanding of the properties of electronic excited states and the reaction
mechanisms that molecules undergo after light irradiation is a fundamental ingredient for …

Computational prediction of chemical reactions: current status and outlook

O Engkvist, PO Norrby, N Selmi, Y Lam, Z Peng… - Drug discovery today, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Reaction knowledge mining is going “Big Data”.•Tools for computer-assisted
reaction predictions are thoroughly reviewed.•The latest development in using quantum and …