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 …

[HTML][HTML] DFT exchange: sharing perspectives on the workhorse of quantum chemistry and materials science

AM Teale, T Helgaker, A Savin, C Adamo… - Physical chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this paper, the history, present status, and future of density-functional theory (DFT) is
informally reviewed and discussed by 70 workers in the field, including molecular scientists …

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 …

Late-stage diversification of indole skeletons through nitrogen atom insertion

JC Reisenbauer, O Green, A Franchino, P Finkelstein… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Compared with peripheral late-stage transformations mainly focusing on carbon–hydrogen
functionalizations, reliable strategies to directly edit the core skeleton of pharmaceutical lead …

[HTML][HTML] GEOM, energy-annotated molecular conformations for property prediction and molecular generation

S Axelrod, R Gomez-Bombarelli - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning (ML) outperforms traditional approaches in many molecular
design tasks. ML models usually predict molecular properties from a 2D chemical graph or a …

Automated molecular cluster growing for explicit solvation by efficient force field and tight binding methods

S Spicher, C Plett, P Pracht, A Hansen… - Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
An automated and broadly applicable workflow for the description of solvation effects in an
explicit manner is introduced. This method, termed quantum cluster growth (QCG), is based …

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 …

Computation of CCSD (T)-quality NMR chemical shifts via Δ-machine learning from DFT

JB Kleine Büning, S Grimme - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
NMR spectroscopy undoubtedly plays a central role in determining molecular structures
across different chemical disciplines, and the accurate computational prediction of NMR …

Automated and efficient generation of general molecular aggregate structures

C Plett, S Grimme - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Modeling intermolecular interactions of complex non‐covalent structures is important in
many areas of chemistry. To facilitate the generation of reasonable dimer, oligomer, and …

[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 …