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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 140, 期 18, 页码 -出版社
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4872036
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- Centre for Oil Sands Innovation
Dispersion-correcting potentials (DCPs) are atom-centered Gaussian functions that are applied in a manner that is similar to effective core potentials. Previous work on DCPs has focussed on their use as a simple means of improving the ability of conventional density-functional theory methods to predict the binding energies of noncovalently bonded molecular dimers. We show in this work that DCPs developed for use with the LC-omega PBE functional along with 6-31+G(2d,2p) basis sets are capable of simultaneously improving predicted noncovalent binding energies of van der Waals dimer complexes and covalent bond dissociation enthalpies in molecules. Specifically, the DCPs developed herein for the C, H, N, and O atoms provide binding energies for a set of 66 noncovalently bonded molecular dimers (the S66 set) with a mean absolute error (MAE) of 0.21 kcal/mol, which represents an improvement of more than a factor of 10 over unadorned LC-omega PBE/6-31+G(2d,2p) and almost a factor of two improvement over LC-.PBE/6-31+ G(2d, 2p) used in conjunction with the D3 pairwise dispersion energy corrections. In addition, the DCPs reduce theMAE of calculated X-H and X-Y (X,Y = C, H, N, O) bond dissociation enthalpies for a set of 40 species from 3.2 kcal/mol obtained with unadorned LC-.PBE/6-31+G(2d,2p) to 1.6 kcal/mol. Our findings demonstrate that broad improvements to the performance of DFT methods may be achievable through the use of DCPs. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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