London dispersion forces in sterically crowded inorganic and organometallic molecules

DJ Liptrot, PP Power - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
London dispersion forces are the weakest component of Van der Waals interactions. They
arise from attractions between instantaneously induced dipoles on neighbouring atoms …

Challenges for density functional theory

AJ Cohen, P Mori-Sánchez, W Yang - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
Density functional theory (DFT) of electronic structure has made an unparalleled impact on
the application of quantum mechanics to interesting and challenging problems in chemistry …

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 …

Revised damping parameters for the D3 dispersion correction to density functional theory

DGA Smith, LA Burns, K Patkowski… - The journal of physical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Since the original fitting of Grimme's DFT-D3 damping parameters, the number and quality of
benchmark interaction energies has increased significantly. Here, conventional benchmark …

Effect of the damping function in dispersion corrected density functional theory

S Grimme, S Ehrlich, L Goerigk - Journal of computational …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
It is shown by an extensive benchmark on molecular energy data that the mathematical form
of the damping function in DFT‐D methods has only a minor impact on the quality of the …

Density functional theory with London dispersion corrections

S Grimme - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Dispersion corrections to standard Kohn–Sham density functional theory (DFT) are
reviewed. The focus is on computationally efficient methods for large systems that do not …

Long-range corrected hybrid density functionals with damped atom–atom dispersion corrections

JD Chai, M Head-Gordon - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
We report re-optimization of a recently proposed long-range corrected (LC) hybrid density
functional [J.-D. Chai and M. Head-Gordon, J. Chem. Phys., 2008, 128, 084106] to include …

Exploring the limit of accuracy of the global hybrid meta density functional for main-group thermochemistry, kinetics, and noncovalent interactions

Y Zhao, DG Truhlar - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2008 - ACS Publications
The hybrid meta density functionals M05-2X and M06-2X have been shown to provide broad
accuracy for main group chemistry. In the present article we make the functional form more …

Stabilization and structure calculations for noncovalent interactions in extended molecular systems based on wave function and density functional theories

KE Riley, M Pitonák, P Jurecka, P Hobza - Chemical Reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
More than 20 years ago, we published in Chemical ReViews a paper entitled
“Intermolecular Interactions between Medium-Sized Systems. Nonempirical and Empirical …

Comprehensive benchmarking of a density-dependent dispersion correction

SN Steinmann, C Corminboeuf - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Standard density functional approximations cannot accurately describe interactions between
nonoverlapping densities. A simple remedy consists in correcting for the missing interactions …