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 …

Multiconfiguration self-consistent field and multireference configuration interaction methods and applications

PG Szalay, T Muller, G Gidofalvi, H Lischka… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The configuration interaction (CI) method is a general procedure to compute approximate
solutions to the electronic Schrödinger equation. The wave function is written as a linear …

Psi4 1.1: An Open-Source Electronic Structure Program Emphasizing Automation, Advanced Libraries, and Interoperability

RM Parrish, LA Burns, DGA Smith… - Journal of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Psi4 is an ab initio electronic structure program providing methods such as Hartree–Fock,
density functional theory, configuration interaction, and coupled-cluster theory. The 1.1 …

B97-3c: A revised low-cost variant of the B97-D density functional method

JG Brandenburg, C Bannwarth, A Hansen… - The Journal of chemical …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
A revised version of the well-established B97-D density functional approximation with
general applicability for chemical properties of large systems is proposed. Like B97-D, it is …

A look at the density functional theory zoo with the advanced GMTKN55 database for general main group thermochemistry, kinetics and noncovalent interactions

L Goerigk, A Hansen, C Bauer, S Ehrlich… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We present the GMTKN55 benchmark database for general main group thermochemistry,
kinetics and noncovalent interactions. Compared to its popular predecessor GMTKN30 …

Parmbsc1: a refined force field for DNA simulations

I Ivani, PD Dans, A Noy, A Pérez, I Faustino… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
We present parmbsc1, a force field for DNA atomistic simulation, which has been
parameterized from high-level quantum mechanical data and tested for nearly 100 systems …

Refinement of the sugar–phosphate backbone torsion beta for AMBER force fields improves the description of Z-and B-DNA

M Zgarbová, J Sponer, M Otyepka… - Journal of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Z-DNA duplexes are a particularly complicated test case for current force fields. We
performed a set of explicit solvent molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with various …

The ANI-1ccx and ANI-1x data sets, coupled-cluster and density functional theory properties for molecules

JS Smith, R Zubatyuk, B Nebgen, N Lubbers, K Barros… - Scientific data, 2020 - nature.com
Maximum diversification of data is a central theme in building generalized and accurate
machine learning (ML) models. In chemistry, ML has been used to develop models for …

Development of a “first principles” water potential with flexible monomers: Dimer potential energy surface, VRT spectrum, and second virial coefficient

V Babin, C Leforestier, F Paesani - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The development of a “first principles” water potential with flexible monomers (MB-pol) for
molecular simulations of water systems from gas to condensed phases is described. MB-pol …

Refinement of the Cornell et al. nucleic acids force field based on reference quantum chemical calculations of glycosidic torsion profiles

M Zgarbová, M Otyepka, J Sponer… - Journal of chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We report a reparameterization of the glycosidic torsion χ of the Cornell et al. AMBER force
field for RNA, χOL. The parameters remove destabilization of the anti region found in the ff99 …