Benefits of Range-separated Hybrid and Double-Hybrid Functionals for a Large and Diverse Dataset of Reaction Energies and Barrier Heights
arXiv:2206.02710 · doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.2c03922
Abstract
To better understand the thermochemical kinetics and mechanism of a specific chemical reaction, an accurate estimation of barrier heights (forward and reverse) and reaction energy are vital. Due to the large size of reactants and transition state structures involved in real-life mechanistic studies (e.g., enzymatically catalyzed reactions), DFT remains the workhorse for such calculations. In this paper, we have assessed the performance of 88 density functionals for modeling the reaction energies and barrier heights on a large and chemically diverse dataset (BH9) composed of 449 organic chemistry reactions. We have shown that range-separated hybrid functionals perform better than the global hybris for BH9 barrier heights and reaction energies. Except for the PBE-based range-separated nonempirical double hybrids, the exchange term's range separation helps improve the performance for barrier heights and reaction energies. The sixteen-parameter Berkeley double hybrid, ωB97M(2), performs remarkably well for both properties. However, our minimally empirical range-separated double hybrid functionals offer marginally better accuracy than ωB97M(2) for BH9 barrier heights and reaction energies.
arXiv commentJ. Phys. Chem. A, revised (Vincenzo Barone festschrift)
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