[HTML][HTML] Software for the frontiers of quantum chemistry: An overview of developments in the Q-Chem 5 package

E Epifanovsky, ATB Gilbert, X Feng, J Lee… - The Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
This article summarizes technical advances contained in the fifth major release of the Q-
Chem quantum chemistry program package, covering developments since 2015. A …

Simulating the ghost: quantum dynamics of the solvated electron

J Lan, V Kapil, P Gasparotto, M Ceriotti… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The nature of the bulk hydrated electron has been a challenge for both experiment and
theory due to its short lifetime and high reactivity, and the need for a high-level of electronic …

Structure of the aqueous electron

JM Herbert - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently there has been a revival of interest in the basic structure of the aqueous or
“hydrated” electron, e−(aq). According to the conventional picture, this species occupies a …

Temperature dependent properties of the aqueous electron

J Lan, VV Rybkin, A Pasquarello - Angewandte Chemie, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The temperature‐dependent properties of the aqueous electron have been extensively
studied using mixed quantum‐classical simulations in a wide range of thermodynamic …

Birth of the hydrated electron via charge-transfer-to-solvent excitation of aqueous iodide

K Carter-Fenk, BA Johnson, JM Herbert… - The journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
A primary means to generate hydrated electrons in laboratory experiments is excitation to
the charge-transfer-to-solvent (CTTS) state of a solute such as I–(aq), but this initial step in …

Understanding the temperature dependence and finite size effects in ab initio MD simulations of the hydrated electron

SJ Park, BJ Schwartz - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The hydrated electron is of interest to both theorists and experimentalists as a paradigm
solution-phase quantum system. Although the bulk of the theoretical work studying the …

Evidence for water antibonding orbital mixing in the hydrated electron from its oxygen 1s X-ray absorption spectrum

X Li, X Jia, ASP Paz, Y Cao… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The X-ray absorption spectrum (XAS) of the hydrated electron (e (aq)–) has been simulated
using time-dependent density functional theory with a quantum mechanics/molecular …

Hydrated electrons in high-concentration electrolytes interact with multiple cations: A simulation study

WA Narvaez, SJ Park, BJ Schwartz - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Experimental studies have demonstrated that the hydrated electron's absorption spectrum
undergoes a concentration-dependent blue-shift in the presence of electrolytes such as …

Trap-seeking or trap-digging? Photoinjection of hydrated electrons into aqueous NaCl solutions

WA Narvaez, EC Wu, SJ Park, M Gomez… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
It is well-known that when excess electrons are injected into an aqueous solution, they
localize and solvate in∼ 1 ps. Still debated is whether localization occurs via “trap-digging” …

Flexible boundary layer using exchange for embedding theories. II. QM/MM dynamics of the hydrated electron

Z Shen, S Peng, WJ Glover - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The FlexiBLE embedding method introduced in Paper I [Z. Shen and WJ Glover, J. Chem.
Phys. 155, 224112 (2021)] is applied to explore the structure and dynamics of the aqueous …