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 …

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 …

The Molpro quantum chemistry package

HJ Werner, PJ Knowles, FR Manby, JA Black… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Molpro is a general purpose quantum chemistry software package with a long development
history. It was originally focused on accurate wavefunction calculations for small molecules …

A robust and accurate tight-binding quantum chemical method for structures, vibrational frequencies, and noncovalent interactions of large molecular systems …

S Grimme, C Bannwarth… - Journal of chemical theory …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We propose a novel, special purpose semiempirical tight binding (TB) method for the
calculation of structures, vibrational frequencies, and noncovalent interactions of large …

Low-temperature mineralization of perfluorocarboxylic acids

B Trang, Y Li, XS Xue, M Ateia, KN Houk, WR Dichtel - Science, 2022 - science.org
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent, bioaccumulative pollutants found
in water resources at concentrations harmful to human health. Whereas current PFAS …

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 …

Shermo: A general code for calculating molecular thermochemistry properties

T Lu, Q Chen - Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
In this article, we present a stand-alone, versatile and flexible code named Shermo for
calculating various thermochemistry data. This code is compatible with various mainstream …

Computational methods in heterogeneous catalysis

BWJ Chen, L Xu, M Mavrikakis - Chemical Reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
The unprecedented ability of computations to probe atomic-level details of catalytic systems
holds immense promise for the fundamentals-based bottom-up design of novel …

Dispersion-corrected mean-field electronic structure methods

S Grimme, A Hansen, JG Brandenburg… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Mean-field electronic structure methods like Hartree–Fock, semilocal density functional
approximations, or semiempirical molecular orbital (MO) theories do not account for long …