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] Recent developments in the PySCF program package

Q Sun, X Zhang, S Banerjee, P Bao, M Barbry… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
P y SCF is a Python-based general-purpose electronic structure platform that supports first-
principles simulations of molecules and solids as well as accelerates the development of …

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 …

Carbon nanodots from an in silico perspective

F Mocci, L de Villiers Engelbrecht, C Olla… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Carbon nanodots (CNDs) are the latest and most shining rising stars among
photoluminescent (PL) nanomaterials. These carbon-based surface-passivated …

OpenMolcas: From source code to insight

I Fdez. Galván, M Vacher, A Alavi… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
In this Article we describe the OpenMolcas environment and invite the computational
chemistry community to collaborate. The open-source project already includes a large …

Exploration of chemical compound, conformer, and reaction space with meta-dynamics simulations based on tight-binding quantum chemical calculations

S Grimme - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2019 - ACS Publications
The semiempirical tight-binding based quantum chemistry method GFN2-xTB is used in the
framework of meta-dynamics (MTD) to globally explore chemical compound, conformer, and …

Robust atomistic modeling of materials, organometallic, and biochemical systems

S Spicher, S Grimme - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Modern chemistry seems to be unlimited in molecular size and elemental composition. Metal‐
organic frameworks or biological macromolecules involve complex architectures and a large …

The atomic simulation environment—a Python library for working with atoms

AH Larsen, JJ Mortensen, J Blomqvist… - Journal of Physics …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The atomic simulation environment (ASE) is a software package written in the Python
programming language with the aim of setting up, steering, and analyzing atomistic …

Efficient quantum chemical calculation of structure ensembles and free energies for nonrigid molecules

S Grimme, F Bohle, A Hansen, P Pracht… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The application of quantum chemical, automatic multilevel modeling workflows for the
determination of thermodynamic (eg, conformation equilibria, partition coefficients, p K 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 …