Abstract
Noncovalent interactions (NCIs) play a crucial role in biology, chemistry, material science, and everything in between. To improve pure quantum-chemical simulations of NCIs, we propose a methodology for constructing approximate correlation energies by combining an interpolation along the Møller-Plesset adiabatic connection (MP AC) with a regularization and spin-scaling strategy applied to MP2 correlation energies. This combination yields cosκos-SPL2, which exhibits superior accuracy for NCIs compared to any of the individual strategies. With the N4 formal scaling, cosκos-SPL2 is competitive or often outperforms more expensive dispersion-corrected double hybrids for NCIs. The accuracy of cosκos-SPL2 particularly shines for anionic halogen bonded complexes, where it surpasses standard dispersion-corrected DFT by a factor of 3 to 5.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 8448-8459 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 38 |
Early online date | 18 Sept 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 28 Sept 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:SV acknowledges funding from the SNSF Starting Grant project (TMSGI2_211246). KJD, DPK, and PG-G acknowledge financial support from The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research under Vici grant 724.017.001. FDS is grateful for the financial support from ICSC – Centro Nazionale di Ricerca in High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, funded by European Union – NextGenerationEU – PNRR. We want to thank Arno Förster for calculating the aug-QZ6P B2PLYP-D3 data for X40 and for fruitful discussions regarding this work. We also want to thank Suhwan Song for providing his MP2 data for the B30 data set and Lucas de Azevedo Santos and Klaas Giesbertz for insightful discussions.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 American Chemical Society
Funding
SV acknowledges funding from the SNSF Starting Grant project (TMSGI2_211246). KJD, DPK, and PG-G acknowledge financial support from The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research under Vici grant 724.017.001. FDS is grateful for the financial support from ICSC – Centro Nazionale di Ricerca in High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, funded by European Union – NextGenerationEU – PNRR. We want to thank Arno Förster for calculating the aug-QZ6P B2PLYP-D3 data for X40 and for fruitful discussions regarding this work. We also want to thank Suhwan Song for providing his MP2 data for the B30 data set and Lucas de Azevedo Santos and Klaas Giesbertz for insightful discussions.
Funders | Funder number |
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Centro Nazionale di Ricerca | |
International Council of Shopping Centers | |
European Commission | |
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung | TMSGI2_211246 |
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung | |
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek | 724.017.001 |
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek |