Several levels of theory, including both Gaussian-based and plane wave density functional theory (DFT), second-order perturbation theory (MP2), and coupled cluster methods (CCSD(T)), are employed to study Au6 and Au8 clusters. All methods predict that the lowest energy isomer of Au6 is planar. For Au8, both DFT methods predict that the two lowest isomers are planar. In contrast, both MP2 and CC...

The structures of a number of fluorocarbocations were calculated at the correlated MP2/6-31G* level. 13C and 19F NMR chemical shifts of fluorocarbocations were calculated for the first time using IGLO and GIAO-MP2 methods. The data showed good correlation of calculated 19F and 13C NMR chemical shifts with the experimental chemical shifts of fluorocarbocations. The correlation for GIAO-MP2-calcu...

We extend the effective fragment molecular orbital method (EFMO) into treating fragments connected by covalent bonds. The accuracy of EFMO is compared to FMO and conventional ab initio electronic structure methods for polypeptides including proteins. Errors in energy for RHF and MP2 are within 2 kcal/mol for neutral polypeptides and 6 kcal/mol for charged polypeptides similar to FMO but obtaine...

Counterpoise (CP) corrected optimizations of water dimer using the D95++(d,p) basis set at various levels of MP and DFT are presented. The MP2(full) calculations predict an interaction energy of -4.75 kcal/mol, close to the “MP2 limit” and to reported MP2 calculations with much large basis sets. DFT (B3PLYP) CPcorrected optimization provided the best interaction energy (-5.22 kcal/mol). The opt...

Description: Tables of cartesian coordinates optimized at MP2 level and the total energies computed at CCSD(T) level of all species mentioned in the text and influence of basis sets Table S-I. Selected geometrical parameters a for structures 1-10 calculated with different theoretical methods Structure Geometrical parameters b HF MP2 BP86 B3LYP

A new four-dimensional potential energy surface for CO2-C2H2 complex has been calculated by the ab initio methods at MP2/cc-pVXZ and MP2/aug-cc-pVXZ theory. For calculating the PES of the CO2-C2H2 complex, we have chosen to follow the supermolecule approach. The complete basis set limit of potential energy surface has been taken by extrapolation. Our MP2 results showed the most stable form of C...

In this paper, correlated studies on a test set of 36 small molecules are carried out with both wavefunction (HF, MP2, CCSD) and density functional (LDA, KT3, cTPSS, cM06-L) methods. The effect correlation exotic response properties such as molecular electronic anapole susceptibilities is studied the performance various approximations benchmarked against CCSD and/or MP2. Atoms traditionally cla...

The second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation energy (MP2) and the Random Phase Approximation (RPA) correlation energy are increasingly popular post-Kohn-Sham correlation methods. Here, a novel algorithm based on a hybrid Gaussian and Plane Waves (GPW) approach with the resolution-of-identity (RI) approximation is developed for MP2, scaled opposite-spin MP2 (SOS-MP2), and direct-RPA (dRPA) corre...

Predicting accurate bond length alternations (BLAs) in long conjugated oligomers has been a significant challenge for electronic-structure methods for many decades, made particularly important by the close relationships between BLA and the rich optoelectronic properties of π-delocalized systems. Here, we test the accuracy of recently developed, and increasingly popular, double hybrid (DH) funct...

A systematic theoretical investigation on a series of dimeric complexes formed between some halocarbon molecules and electron donors has been carried out by employing both ab initio and density functional methods. Full geometry optimizations are performed at the Moller-Plesset second-order perturbation (MP2) level of theory with the Dunning's correlation-consistent basis set, aug-cc-pVDZ. Bindi...