Delocalization error: The greatest outstanding challenge in density‐functional theory

KR Bryenton, AA Adeleke, SG Dale… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Every day, density‐functional theory (DFT) is routinely applied to computational modeling of
molecules and materials with the expectation of high accuracy. However, in certain …

Thirty years of density functional theory in computational chemistry: an overview and extensive assessment of 200 density functionals

N Mardirossian, M Head-Gordon - Molecular physics, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In the past 30 years, Kohn–Sham density functional theory has emerged as the most popular
electronic structure method in computational chemistry. To assess the ever-increasing …

[HTML][HTML] ωB97M-V: A combinatorially optimized, range-separated hybrid, meta-GGA density functional with VV10 nonlocal correlation

N Mardirossian, M Head-Gordon - The Journal of chemical physics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
A combinatorially optimized, range-separated hybrid, meta-GGA density functional with
VV10 nonlocal correlation is presented. The final 12-parameter functional form is selected …

How accurate are the Minnesota density functionals for noncovalent interactions, isomerization energies, thermochemistry, and barrier heights involving molecules …

N Mardirossian, M Head-Gordon - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The 14 Minnesota density functionals published between the years 2005 and early 2016 are
benchmarked on a comprehensive database of 4986 data points (84 data sets) involving …

Representing potential energy surfaces by high-dimensional neural network potentials

J Behler - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The development of interatomic potentials employing artificial neural networks has seen
tremendous progress in recent years. While until recently the applicability of neural network …

Halogen bonds: Benchmarks and theoretical analysis

S Kozuch, JML Martin - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2013 - ACS Publications
We carried out an extensive survey of wave function and DFT methods to test their accuracy
on geometries and dissociation energies of halogen bonds (XB). For that purpose, we built …

Electrochemical Azidooxygenation of Alkenes Mediated by a TEMPO–N3 Charge-Transfer Complex

JC Siu, GS Sauer, A Saha, RL Macey… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We report a mild and efficient electrochemical protocol to access a variety of vicinally C–O
and C–N difunctionalized compounds from simple alkenes. Detailed mechanistic studies …

[HTML][HTML] Survival of the most transferable at the top of Jacob's ladder: Defining and testing the ωB97M (2) double hybrid density functional

N Mardirossian, M Head-Gordon - The Journal of chemical physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
A meta-generalized gradient approximation, range-separated double hybrid (DH) density
functional with VV10 non-local correlation is presented. The final 14-parameter functional …

[HTML][HTML] Requirements for an accurate dispersion-corrected density functional

AJA Price, KR Bryenton, ER Johnson - The Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Post-self-consistent dispersion corrections are now the norm when applying density-
functional theory to systems where non-covalent interactions play an important role …

Universal generalization of density functional theory for static correlation

D Gibney, JN Boyn, DA Mazziotti - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
A major challenge for density functional theory (DFT) is its failure to treat static correlation,
yielding errors in predicted charges, band gaps, van der Waals forces, and reaction barriers …