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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
卷 9, 期 8, 页码 3437-3443出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ct4003527
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- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) of Spain
- European Regional Development Fund [CTQ2011-27253, CTQ2012-31914, Consolider-Ingenio CSD2007-00010]
- Generalitat Valenciana [Prometeo/2012/053]
Noncovalent interactions drive the self-assembly of weakly interacting molecular systems to form supramolecular aggregates, which play a major role in nanotechnology and biochemistry. In this work, we present a thorough assessment of the performance of different double-hybrid density functionals (PBE0-DH-NL, revPBE0-DH-NL, B2PLYP-NL, and TPSS0-DH-NL), as well as their parent hybrid and (meta)GGA functionals, in combination with the most modern version of the nonlocal (NL) van der Waals correction. It is shown that this nonlocal correction can be successfully coupled with double-hybrid density functionals thanks to the short-range attenuation parameter b, which has been optimized against reference interaction energies of benchmarking molecular complexes (S22 and S66 databases). Among all the double-hybrid functionals evaluated, revPBE0-DH-NL and B2PLYP-NL behave remarkably accurate with mean unsigned errors (MUE) as small as 0.20 kcal/mol for the training sets and in the 0.25-0.42 kcal/mol range for an independent database (NCCE31). They can be thus seen as appropriate functionals to use in a broad number of applications where noncovalent interactions play an important role. Overall, the nonlocal van der Waals approach combined with last-generation density functionals is confirmed as an accurate and affordable computational tool for the modeling of weakly bonded molecular systems.
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