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 …

Polyoxometalate‐soft matter composite materials: design strategies, applications, and future directions

JH Kruse, M Langer, I Romanenko… - Advanced functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular metal oxides or polyoxometalates (POMs) offer unrivaled properties in areas
ranging from catalysis and energy conversion through to molecular electronics, biomimetics …

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 …

Efficient quantum chemical calculation of structure ensembles and free energies for nonrigid molecules

S Grimme, F Bohle, A Hansen, P Pracht… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The application of quantum chemical, automatic multilevel modeling workflows for the
determination of thermodynamic (eg, conformation equilibria, partition coefficients, p K a …

ωB97X-3c: A composite range-separated hybrid DFT method with a molecule-optimized polarized valence double-ζ basis set

M Müller, A Hansen, S Grimme - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
A new composite density functional theory (DFT) method is presented. It is based on ωB97X-
V as one of the best-performing density functionals for the GMTKN55 thermochemistry …

[HTML][HTML] CREST—A program for the exploration of low-energy molecular chemical space

P Pracht, S Grimme, C Bannwarth, F Bohle… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Conformer–rotamer sampling tool (CREST) is an open-source program for the efficient and
automated exploration of molecular chemical space. Originally developed in Pracht et …

Assessment of DLPNO-MP2 approximations in double-hybrid DFT

H Neugebauer, P Pinski, S Grimme… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The unfavorable scaling (N 5) of the conventional second-order Møller–Plesset theory (MP2)
typically prevents the application of double-hybrid (DH) density functionals to large systems …

Unlocking the computational design of metal–organic cages

A Tarzia, KE Jelfs - Chemical Communications, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Metal–organic cages are macrocyclic structures that can possess an intrinsic void that can
hold molecules for encapsulation, adsorption, sensing, and catalysis applications. As metal …

Architector for high-throughput cross-periodic table 3D complex building

MG Taylor, DJ Burrill, J Janssen, ER Batista… - nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Rare-earth and actinide complexes are critical for a wealth of clean-energy applications.
Three-dimensional (3D) structural generation and prediction for these organometallic …

High‐throughput screening of spin states for transition metal complexes with spin‐polarized extended tight‐binding methods

H Neugebauer, B Bädorf, S Ehlert… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The semiempirical GFNn‐xTB (n= 1, 2) tight‐binding methods are extended with a spin‐
dependent energy term (spin‐polarization), enabling the fast and efficient screening of …