Recognition in the domain of molecular chirality: from noncovalent interactions to separation of enantiomers

P Peluso, B Chankvetadze - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
It is not a coincidence that both chirality and noncovalent interactions are ubiquitous in
nature and synthetic molecular systems. Noncovalent interactivity between chiral molecules …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Accurate calculation of isomerization and conformational energies of larger molecules using explicitly correlated local coupled cluster methods in molpro and ORCA

HJ Werner, A Hansen - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
An overview of the approximations in the explicitly correlated local coupled cluster methods
PNO-LCCSD (T)-F12 in Molpro and DLPNO-CCSD (T) F12 in ORCA is given. Options to …

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 …

Good Practices in Database Generation for Benchmarking Density Functional Theory

A Karton, MT De Oliveira - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The hundreds of density functional theory (DFT) methods developed over the past three
decades are often referred to as the “zoo” of DFT approximations. In line with this …

Conformational Energy Benchmark for Longer n-Alkane Chains

S Ehlert, S Grimme, A Hansen - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We present the first benchmark set focusing on the conformational energies of highly
flexible, long n-alkane chains, termed ACONFL. Unbranched alkanes are ubiquitous …

Histidine in Proteins: pH-Dependent Interplay between π–π, Cation–π, and CH–π Interactions

R Calinsky, Y Levy - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Histidine (His) stands out as the most versatile natural amino acid due to its side chain's
facile propensity to protonate at physiological pH, leading to a transition from aromatic to …

Comparison of density-functional theory dispersion corrections for the DES15K database

CJ Nickerson, KR Bryenton, AJA Price… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
While density-functional theory (DFT) remains one of the most widely used tools in
computational chemistry, most functionals fail to properly account for the effects of London …