Long-range corrected hybrid density functionals with improved dispersion corrections

YS Lin, GD Li, SP Mao, JD Chai - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2013 - ACS Publications
By incorporating the improved empirical atom–atom dispersion corrections from DFT-D3
[Grimme, S.; Antony, J.; Ehrlich, S.; Krieg, HJ Chem. Phys. 2010, 132, 154104], two long …

Systematic improvement of a classical molecular model of water

LP Wang, T Head-Gordon, JW Ponder… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We report the iAMOEBA (“inexpensive AMOEBA”) classical polarizable water model. The
iAMOEBA model uses a direct approximation to describe electronic polarizability, in which …

Mechanistic studies of the rhodium-catalyzed direct C–H amination reaction using azides as the nitrogen source

SH Park, J Kwak, K Shin, J Ryu, Y Park… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Direct C–H amination of arenes offers a straightforward route to aniline compounds without
necessitating aryl (pseudo) halides as the starting materials. The recent development in this …

Amphiphilicity determines nanostructure in protic ionic liquids

R Hayes, S Imberti, GG Warr, R Atkin - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The bulk structure of the two oldest ionic liquids (ILs), ethylammonium nitrate (EAN) and
ethanolammonium nitrate (EtAN), is elucidated using neutron diffraction. The spectra were …

Electronic Absorption Spectra from MM and ab Initio QM/MM Molecular Dynamics: Environmental Effects on the Absorption Spectrum of Photoactive Yellow Protein

CM Isborn, AW Gotz, MA Clark, RC Walker… - Journal of chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We describe a new interface of the GPU parallelized Terachem electronic structure package
and the Amber molecular dynamics package for quantum mechanical (QM) and mixed QM …

Fast and highly chemoselective alkynylation of thiols with hypervalent iodine reagents enabled through a low energy barrier concerted mechanism

R Frei, MD Wodrich, DP Hari, PA Borin… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Among all functional groups, alkynes occupy a privileged position in synthetic and medicinal
chemistry, chemical biology, and materials science. Thioalkynes, in particular, are highly …

Characterization of the short-range couplings in excitation energy transfer

CP Hsu, ZQ You, HC Chen - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2008 - ACS Publications
The electronic coupling in excitation energy transfer (EET) is composed of a Coulomb
coupling (which can be approximated as the Förster's dipole coupling), a Dexter's exchange …

Outer-valence electron spectra of prototypical aromatic heterocycles from an optimally tuned range-separated hybrid functional

DA Egger, S Weissman… - Journal of Chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Density functional theory with optimally tuned range-separated hybrid (OT-RSH) functionals
has been recently suggested [Refaely-Abramson et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2012, 109, 226405] …

Reliable energy level alignment at physisorbed molecule–metal interfaces from density functional theory

DA Egger, ZF Liu, JB Neaton, L Kronik - Nano letters, 2015 - ACS Publications
A key quantity for molecule–metal interfaces is the energy level alignment of molecular
electronic states with the metallic Fermi level. We develop and apply an efficient theoretical …