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Ostojić B, Schwerdtfeger P, Đorđević D. Modeling the hydrogen sulfide binding to heme. J Inorg Biochem 2018; 184:108-114. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2018.04.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2017] [Revised: 04/14/2018] [Accepted: 04/17/2018] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Mikhailov OV, Chachkov DV. Models of Molecular Structures of Al2Cr3 and Al2Mo3 Metal Clusters according to Density Functional Theory Calculations. RUSS J INORG CHEM+ 2018. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036023618060177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Siig OS, Kepp KP. Iron(II) and Iron(III) Spin Crossover: Toward an Optimal Density Functional. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:4208-4217. [PMID: 29630380 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b02027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Spin crossover (SCO) plays a major role in biochemistry, catalysis, materials, and emerging technologies such as molecular electronics and sensors, and thus accurate prediction and design of SCO systems is of high priority. However, the main tool for this purpose, density functional theory (DFT), is very sensitive to applied methodology. The most abundant SCO systems are Fe(II) and Fe(III) systems. Even with average good agreement, a functional may be significantly more accurate for Fe(II) or Fe(III) systems, preventing balanced study of SCO candidates of both types. The present work investigates DFT's performance for well-known Fe(II) and Fe(III) SCO complexes, using various design types and customized versions of GGA, hybrid, meta-GGA, meta-hybrid, double-hybrid, and long-range-corrected hybrid functionals. We explore the limits of DFT performance and identify proficient Fe(II)-Fe(III)-balanced functionals. We identify and quantify remarkable differences in the DFT description of Fe(II) and Fe(III) systems. Most functionals become more accurate once Hartree-Fock exchange is adjusted to 10-17%, regardless of the type of functionals involved. However, this typically introduces a clear Fe(II)-Fe(III) bias. The most accurate functionals measured by mean absolute errors <10 kJ/mol are CAMB3LYP-17, B3LYP*, and B97-15 with 15-17% Hartree-Fock exchange, closely followed by CAMB3LYP and CAMB3LYP-15, OPBE, rPBE-10, and B3P86-15. While GGA functionals display a small Fe(II)-Fe(III) bias, they are generally inaccurate, except the O exchange functional. Hybrid functionals (including B2PLYP double hybrids and meta hybrids) tend to favor HS too much in Fe(II) vs Fe(III), which is important in many studies where the oxidation state of iron can vary, e.g. rational SCO design and studies of catalytic processes involving iron. The only functional with a combined bias <5 kJ/mol and a decent MAE (15 kJ/mol) is our customized PBE0-12 functional. Alternatively one has to sacrifice Fe(II)-Fe(III) balance to use the best functionals for each group separately. We also investigated the precision (measured as the standard deviation of errors) and show that the target accuracy for iron SCO is 10 kJ/mol for accuracy and 5 kJ/mol for precision, and DFT is probably not going to break this limit in the near future. Importantly, all four types of functional behavior (accurate/precise, accurate/imprecise, inaccurate/precise, inaccurate/imprecise) are observed. More generally, our work illustrates the importance not only of overall accuracy but also of balanced accuracy for systems likely to occur in context.
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- Oliver S Siig
- DTU Chemistry , Technical University of Denmark , Building 206 , 2800 Kgs. Lyngby , Denmark
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- DTU Chemistry , Technical University of Denmark , Building 206 , 2800 Kgs. Lyngby , Denmark
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de Brito Sá É, Rodríguez-Santiago L, Sodupe M, Solans-Monfort X. Influence of Ligands and Oxidation State on the Reactivity of Pentacoordinated Iron Carbenes with Olefins: Metathesis versus Cyclopropanation. Organometallics 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.7b00786] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Égil de Brito Sá
- Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
- Universidade Federal do Piauí, Campus Ministro
Reis Velloso, 64202-020 Parnaíba-Piauí, Brazil
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- Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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Li Manni G, Alavi A. Understanding the Mechanism Stabilizing Intermediate Spin States in Fe(II)-Porphyrin. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:4935-4947. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b12710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- Giovanni Li Manni
- Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstraße 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstraße 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Stepanović S, Angelone D, Gruden M, Swart M. The role of spin states in the catalytic mechanism of the intra- and extradiol cleavage of catechols by O 2. Org Biomol Chem 2018; 15:7860-7868. [PMID: 28880037 DOI: 10.1039/c7ob01814b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Iron-dependent enzymes and biomimetic iron complexes can catalyze the ring cleavage of very inert, aromatic compounds. The mechanisms of these transformations and the factors that lead either to extradiol cleavage or intradiol cleavage have not been fully understood. By using density functional theory we have elucidated the mechanism of the catalytic cycle for two biomimetic complexes, and explained the difference in the experimentally obtained products.
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- S Stepanović
- Center for Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade Njegoseva 12, 11001 Belgrade, Serbia
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- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi (Ciències), 17003 Girona, Spain
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Studentski trg 12-16, 11001 Belgrade, Serbia.
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- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi (Ciències), 17003 Girona, Spain and ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain.
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Postils V, Rodríguez M, Sabenya G, Conde A, Díaz-Requejo MM, Pérez PJ, Costas M, Solà M, Luis JM. Mechanism of the Selective Fe-Catalyzed Arene Carbon–Hydrogen Bond Functionalization. ACS Catal 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b03935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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- Verònica Postils
- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, 17071, Girona, Spain
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- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, 17071, Girona, Spain
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- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, 17071, Girona, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Catálisis Homogénea, Unidad Asociada al CSIC, CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Química, Universidad de Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Catálisis Homogénea, Unidad Asociada al CSIC, CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Química, Universidad de Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Catálisis Homogénea, Unidad Asociada al CSIC, CIQSO-Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible and Departamento de Química, Universidad de Huelva, 21007 Huelva, Spain
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- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, 17071, Girona, Spain
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- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, 17071, Girona, Spain
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- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, 17071, Girona, Spain
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Molecular structures of metal macrocyclic compounds with nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur atoms in macrocycles arising in “self-assembly” processes: quantum-chemical modeling. Struct Chem 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s11224-018-1091-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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de Brito Sá E, Rimola A, Rodríguez-Santiago L, Sodupe M, Solans-Monfort X. Reactivity of Metal Carbenes with Olefins: Theoretical Insights on the Carbene Electronic Structure and Cyclopropanation Reaction Mechanism. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:1702-1712. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b11656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- E. de Brito Sá
- Departament
de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
- Universidade Federal do Piauí, Campus Ministro Reis Velloso, 64202-020 Parnaíba, Piauí, Brazil
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- Departament
de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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- Departament
de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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- Departament
de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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Wilbraham L, Adamo C, Ciofini I. Communication: Evaluating non-empirical double hybrid functionals for spin-state energetics in transition-metal complexes. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:041103. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5019641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Liam Wilbraham
- Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
- Chimie ParisTech, PSL Research University, CNRS, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris (IRCP), 11 rue P. et M. Curie, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Chimie ParisTech, PSL Research University, CNRS, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris (IRCP), 11 rue P. et M. Curie, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Chimie ParisTech, PSL Research University, CNRS, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris (IRCP), 11 rue P. et M. Curie, F-75005 Paris, France
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Rousseau L, Brémond E, Lefèvre G. Assessment of the ground spin state of iron(i) complexes: insights from DFT predictive models. NEW J CHEM 2018. [DOI: 10.1039/c7nj04816e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Factors governing the ground spin state of iron(i) complexes are analyzed by DFT methods. An efficient benchmarking procedure is reported.
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- L. Rousseau
- NIMBE
- CEA
- CNRS
- Université Paris-Saclay
- Gif-sur-Yvette
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- Univ. Paris Diderot
- Sorbonne Paris Cité
- ITODYS
- F-75013 Paris
- France
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- NIMBE
- CEA
- CNRS
- Université Paris-Saclay
- Gif-sur-Yvette
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Mikhailov OV. Quantum-chemical models of the molecular structures of open-chain and macrocyclic d-metal chelates with (N,O)- and (N,S)-donor polydentate ligands. RUSS J INORG CHEM+ 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036023617130058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Prokopiou G, Kronik L. Spin-State Energetics of Fe Complexes from an Optimally Tuned Range-Separated Hybrid Functional. Chemistry 2017; 24:5173-5182. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201704014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2017] [Revised: 10/05/2017] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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- Georgia Prokopiou
- Department of Materials and Interfaces; Weizmann Institute of Science; Rehovoth 76100 Israel
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- Department of Materials and Interfaces; Weizmann Institute of Science; Rehovoth 76100 Israel
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Mikhailov OV, Chachkov DV. Molecular structures of (454)macrotricyclic chelates in the M(II) ion–thiosulfate anion–ethylenediamine systems according to quantum-chemical DFT calculations. RUSS J INORG CHEM+ 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036023617120154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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David G, Guihéry N, Ferré N. What Are the Physical Contents of Hubbard and Heisenberg Hamiltonian Interactions Extracted from Broken Symmetry DFT Calculations in Magnetic Compounds? J Chem Theory Comput 2017; 13:6253-6265. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- LCPQ,
IRSAMC, Université de Toulouse 3, Paul Sabatier, 31400 Toulouse, France
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- Aix Marseille
Univ, CNRS, ICR, 13397 Marseille, France
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Mohajeri A, Hassani N, Mousavipour SH. NO oxidation catalyzed by Ir4-based nanoclusters: the role of alloying on the catalytic activity. Theor Chem Acc 2017. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-017-2152-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Mikhailov OV, Chachkov DV. Molecular structures of (575)macrotricyclic 3d-metal chelates in M(II)–N-methylthiocarbohydrazide–hexanedione-2,5 according to density functional theory calculations. RUSS J INORG CHEM+ 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036023617100138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Mikhailov OV, Chachkov DV. DFT quantum-chemical calculations of molecular structures for template heteroligand (5757)macrocyclic M(II) chelates of 3d elements with a 16-membered macrocyclic ligand and Br– ions. RUSS J INORG CHEM+ 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036023617090108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Ortuño MA, Cramer CJ. Multireference Electronic Structures of Fe–Pyridine(diimine) Complexes over Multiple Oxidation States. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:5932-5939. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b06032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Manuel A. Ortuño
- Department of Chemistry,
Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemistry,
Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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Mikhailov OV, Chachkov DV. Modeling of molecular structures of (464)macrotricyclic chelates in ternary systems M(II) ion–mercaptomethanethioamide–formaldehyde. RUSS J INORG CHEM+ 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036023617070130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Chachkov DV, Mikhailov OV. Molecular structure of hexatomic heteronuclear (AlFe) metal clusters as determined by the DFT quantum-chemical calculation. RUSS J GEN CHEM+ 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s1070363217040028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Wilbraham L, Verma P, Truhlar DG, Gagliardi L, Ciofini I. Multiconfiguration Pair-Density Functional Theory Predicts Spin-State Ordering in Iron Complexes with the Same Accuracy as Complete Active Space Second-Order Perturbation Theory at a Significantly Reduced Computational Cost. J Phys Chem Lett 2017; 8:2026-2030. [PMID: 28436662 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The spin-state orderings in nine Fe(II) and Fe(III) complexes with ligands of diverse ligand-field strength were investigated with multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory (MC-PDFT). The performance of this method was compared to that of complete active space second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2) and Kohn-Sham density functional theory. We also investigated the dependence of CASPT2 and MC-PDFT results on the size of the active-space. MC-PDFT reproduces the CASPT2 spin-state ordering, the dependence on the ligand field strength, and the dependence on active space at a computational cost that is significantly reduced as compared to CASPT2.
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- Liam Wilbraham
- PSL Research University , Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris IRCP, CNRS - Chimie ParisTech, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- PSL Research University , Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris IRCP, CNRS - Chimie ParisTech, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Yibo Lei
- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule Chemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Physico-Inorganic Chemistry, Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, and Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Chemistry Department, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA
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Mikhailov OV, Chachkov DV. Models of molecular structures of aluminum–iron clusters AlFe3, Al2Fe3, and Al2Fe4 according to quantum-chemical DFT calculations. RUSS J INORG CHEM+ 2017. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036023617030135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Cardona-Serra S, Sanvito S. Influence of the dipolar interactions on the relative stability in spin crossover systems. J Comput Chem 2017; 38:224-227. [PMID: 27882575 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.24676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2016] [Revised: 11/07/2016] [Accepted: 11/08/2016] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Molecules exhibiting a spin-crossover transition have been proposed for a number of applications such as molecular switches, spintronic tunable interfaces, and single molecule gates. Both the rational design of new spin-crossover systems and the improvement of the properties of the already existing ones require a theoretical understanding of the relative energy of the high (HS) and low spin state (LS) molecules in the solid-state. This has proved to be very challenging so far. Here, we shed some light on the importance of considering the symmetry and the geometry of the crystallographic cell to correctly evaluate the influence of the dipolar interactions on the relative energies of the molecular complex in both different spin states. Moreover, in the case of Fe(SCN)2 (phen)2 dipolar interactions are found to play an important role for the stabilization of the LS complex. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- School of Physics and CRANN, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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Ioannidis EI, Kulik HJ. Ligand-Field-Dependent Behavior of Meta-GGA Exchange in Transition-Metal Complex Spin-State Ordering. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:874-884. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b11930] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Efthymios I. Ioannidis
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Gostynski R, Conradie J, Erasmus E. Significance of the electron-density of molecular fragments on the properties of manganese(iii) β-diketonato complexes: an XPS and DFT study. RSC Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7ra04921h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The group electronegativity of the R-groups of the ligand influences the XPS binding energies and the amount of charge transferred in the Mn 2p3/2 photoelectron lines. DFT studies illustrated different Jahn–Teller elongation bond stretch isomers.
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- Roxanne Gostynski
- Department of Chemistry
- University of the Free State
- Bloemfontein
- South Africa
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of the Free State
- Bloemfontein
- South Africa
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of the Free State
- Bloemfontein
- South Africa
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Verma P, Varga Z, Klein JEMN, Cramer CJ, Que L, Truhlar DG. Assessment of electronic structure methods for the determination of the ground spin states of Fe(ii), Fe(iii) and Fe(iv) complexes. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:13049-13069. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp01263b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We studied spin states of Fe2+ ion, gaseous FeO, and 14 Fe(ii), Fe(iii) and Fe(iv) complexes using density functional theory.
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- Pragya Verma
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Minnesota
- Minneapolis
- USA
- Chemical Theory Center and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Minnesota
- Minneapolis
- USA
- Chemical Theory Center and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Minnesota
- Minneapolis
- USA
- Center for Metals in Biocatalysis
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Minnesota
- Minneapolis
- USA
- Chemical Theory Center and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Minnesota
- Minneapolis
- USA
- Center for Metals in Biocatalysis
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Minnesota
- Minneapolis
- USA
- Chemical Theory Center and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
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The great diversity and richness of transition metal chemistry, such as the features of an open d-shell, opened a way to numerous areas of scientific research and technological applications. Depending on the nature of the metal and its environment, there are often several energetically accessible spin states, and the progress in accurate theoretical treatment of this complicated phenomenon is presented in this Account. The spin state energetics of a transition metal complex can be predicted theoretically on the basis of density functional theory (DFT) or wave function based methodology, where DFT has advantages since it can be applied routinely to medium-to-large-sized molecules and spin-state consistent density functionals are now available. Additional factors such as the effect of the basis set, thermochemical contributions, solvation, relativity, and dispersion, have been investigated by many researchers, but challenges in unambiguous assignment of spin states still remain. The first DFT studies showed intrinsic spin-state preferences of hybrid functionals for high spin and early generalized gradient approximation functionals for low spin. Progress in the development of density functional approximations (DFAs) then led to a class of specially designed DFAs, such as OPBE, SSB-D, and S12g, and brought a very intriguing and fascinating observation that the spin states of transition metals and the SN2 barriers of organic molecules are somehow intimately linked. Among the many noteworthy results that emerged from the search for the appropriate description of the complicated spin state preferences in transition metals, we mainly focused on the examination of the connection between the spin state and the structures or coordination modes of the transition metal complexes. Changes in spin states normally lead only to changes in the metal-ligand bond lengths, but to the best of our knowledge, the dapsox ligand showed the first example of a transition-metal complex where a change in spin state leads also to changes in the coordination, switching between pentagonal-bipyramidal and capped-octahedron. Moreover, we have summarized the results of the thorough study that corrected the experimental assignment of the nature of the recently synthesized Sc3+ adduct of [FeIV(O)(TMC)]2+ (TMC = 1,4,8,11-tetramethylcyclam) and firmly established that the Sc3+-capped iron-oxygen complex corresponds to high-spin FeIII. Last, but not least, we have provided deeper insight and rationalization of the observation that unlike in metalloenzymes, where the FeIV-oxo is usually observed with high spin, biomimetic FeIV-oxo complexes typically have a intermediate spin state. Energy decomposition analyses on the trigonal-bypiramidal (TBP) and octahedral model systems with ammonia ligands have revealed that the interaction energy of the prepared metal ion in the intermediate spin state is much smaller for the TBP structure. This sheds light on the origin of the intermediate spin state of the biomimetic TBP FeIV-oxo complexes.
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- Marcel Swart
- ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain
- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi (IQCC) & Dept. Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, 17071 Girona, Spain
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- Center
for Computational Chemistry and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Belgrade 11000, Serbia
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de Brito Sá É, Rodríguez-Santiago L, Sodupe M, Solans-Monfort X. Toward Olefin Metathesis with Iron Carbene Complexes: Benefits of Tridentate σ-Donating Ligands. Organometallics 2016. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Égil de Brito Sá
- Departament
de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
- Universidade Federal do Piauí, Campus Ministro Reis Velloso, 64202-020 Parnaíba, Piauí, Brazil
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- Departament
de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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Fumanal M, Wagner LK, Sanvito S, Droghetti A. Diffusion Monte Carlo Perspective on the Spin-State Energetics of [Fe(NCH)6](2.). J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:4233-41. [PMID: 27500854 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The energy difference between the high spin and the low spin state of the model compound [Fe(NCH)6](2+) is investigated by means of Diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC), where special attention is dedicated to analyzing the effect of the fix node approximation on the accuracy of the results. For this purpose, we compare several Slater-Jastrow and multireference Slater-Jastrow trial wave functions. We found that a Slater-Jastrow trial wave function constructed with the generalized Kohn-Sham orbitals from hybrid DFT represents the optimal choice. This is understood by observing that hybrid functionals account for the subtle balance between exchange and correlation effects and the respective orbitals accurately describe the ligand-metal hybridization as well as the charge reorganization accompanying the spin transition. Finally the DMC results are compared with those obtained by Hartree-Fock, DFT, CASSCF, and CASPT2. While there is no clear reference value for the high spin-low spin energy difference, DMC and high level CCSD(T) calculations agree within around 0.3 eV.
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- Maria Fumanal
- Institut de Chimie UMR7177 CNRS-Université de Strasbourg , 1 Rue Blaise Pascal BP 296/R8, F-67007 Strasbourg, France.,Departament de Química Física and IQTCUB, Facultat de Química, Universitat de Barcelona , Av. Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- School of Physics, AMBER and CRANN Institute, Trinity College , Dublin 2, Ireland
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- School of Physics, AMBER and CRANN Institute, Trinity College , Dublin 2, Ireland.,Nano-Bio Spectroscopy Group and European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF), Universidad del Pais Vasco CFM CSIC-UPV/EHU-MPC and DIPC , Av.Tolosa 72, 20018 San Sebastian, Spain
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Mikhailov OV, Chachkov DV. Models of molecular structure of heteronuclear clusters Al2Fe3, Al2Co3, and Al2Ni3 according to the data of quantum-chemical density functional simulation. RUSS J GEN CHEM+ 2016. [DOI: 10.1134/s1070363216090036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Sensing the active site properties of enzymes as a function of the size of an effective peptidic environment using DFT reactivity parameters. Theor Chem Acc 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-016-1980-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Kiawi DM, Chernyy V, Oomens J, Buma WJ, Jamshidi Z, Visscher L, Waters LBFM, Bakker JM. Water Dissociation upon Adsorption onto Free Iron Clusters Is Size Dependent. J Phys Chem Lett 2016; 7:2381-2387. [PMID: 27266896 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Cationic iron clusters, produced through laser ablation and subsequently complexed with a water molecule Fen(+)-H2O (n = 6-15) are mass-selectively investigated via infrared multiple photon dissociation (IR-MPD) spectroscopy in the 300-1700 cm(-1) spectral range. The experimental data are complemented by density functional theory calculations at the OPBE/TZP level for the Fe13(+)-H2O system. The observed spectra can be explained by a mixture of clusters where for a majority water is adsorbed molecularly but for a small but significant fraction also dissociation of water molecules occurs. The bands observed at frequencies 300-700 cm(-1) exhibit regular, size-dependent frequency shifts, showing that (a) dissociation takes places on all cluster sizes and (b) the interaction of water with the cluster surface is not influenced much by the particular cluster structure. The intensity evolution of the absorption bands suggests that dissociation is increasingly probable for larger cluster sizes.
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- Denis M Kiawi
- Radboud University , Institute for Molecules and Materials, FELIX Laboratory, Toernooiveld 7c, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Anton Pannekoek Institute, University of Amsterdam , Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University , Institute for Molecules and Materials, FELIX Laboratory, Toernooiveld 7c, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University , Institute for Molecules and Materials, FELIX Laboratory, Toernooiveld 7c, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam , Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam , Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Research Center of Iran , P.O. Box 14335-186, Tehran, Iran
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- Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling Section Theoretical Chemistry, VU University Amsterdam , De Boelelaan 1083, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Anton Pannekoek Institute, University of Amsterdam , Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- SRON Netherlands, Sorbonnelaan, 3584 CA Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Radboud University , Institute for Molecules and Materials, FELIX Laboratory, Toernooiveld 7c, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Alcover-Fortuny G, Caballol R, Pierloot K, de Graaf C. Role of the Imide Axial Ligand in the Spin and Oxidation State of Manganese Corrole and Corrolazine Complexes. Inorg Chem 2016; 55:5274-80. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b00194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Gerard Alcover-Fortuny
- Departament de Química
Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Marcel·lí
Domingo s/n, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Departament de Química
Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Marcel·lí
Domingo s/n, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001 Heverlee-Leuven, Belgium
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- Departament de Química
Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Marcel·lí
Domingo s/n, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig Lluis Companys 23, 08010, Barcelona, Spain
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Mikhailov OV, Chachkov DV. DFT analysis of molecular structure of 14-membered tetraaza-, dioxotetraaza-, and hexaazamacroheterocyclic ligands and their metal complexes. RUSS J GEN CHEM+ 2016. [DOI: 10.1134/s1070363216050200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Mikhailov OV, Chachkov DV. Molecular structures of (5656)macrotetracyclic chelates in M(II) ion–ethanedithioamide–methanimine–hydrogen cyanide quaternary systems by DFT calculations. RUSS J INORG CHEM+ 2016. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036023616050144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Bellow JA, Stoian SA, van Tol J, Ozarowski A, Lord RL, Groysman S. Synthesis and Characterization of a Stable High-Valent Cobalt Carbene Complex. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:5531-4. [PMID: 27077402 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b02747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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The formally Co(IV) carbene Co(OR)2(═CPh2) is formed upon the reaction of diphenyldiazomethane with the cobalt bis(alkoxide) precursor Co(OR)2(THF)2. Structural, spectroscopic, and theoretical studies demonstrate that Co(OR)2(═CPh2) has significant high-valent Co(IV)═CPh2 character with non-negligible spin density on the carbene moiety.
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- James A Bellow
- Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University , 5101 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202, United States
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University , Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University , Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University , Tallahassee, Florida 32310, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Grand Valley State University , Allendale, Michigan 49401, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University , 5101 Cass Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202, United States
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Pansini FNN, de Souza FAL. Trends in the Spin States and Mean Static Dipole Polarizability of the Group VIIIA Metallocenes. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:2771-8. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b02755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Fernando N. N. Pansini
- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Espı́rito Santo, 29075-910 Vitória, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Espı́rito Santo, 29075-910 Vitória, Brazil
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Sun Y, Tang H, Chen K, Hu L, Yao J, Shaik S, Chen H. Two-State Reactivity in Low-Valent Iron-Mediated C–H Activation and the Implications for Other First-Row Transition Metals. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:3715-30. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b12150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Yihua Sun
- Beijing
National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory
of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Beijing
National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory
of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Beijing
National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory
of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Beijing
National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory
of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Beijing
National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory
of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Institute
of Chemistry and the Lise Meitner-Minerva Center for Computational
Quantum Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
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- Beijing
National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory
of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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Mikhailov OV, Chachkov DV. Quantum-chemical modeling of the molecular structures of (555)macrotricyclic chelates in M(II) ion–thiooxamide–glyoxal ternary systems (M = Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn). RUSS J INORG CHEM+ 2016. [DOI: 10.1134/s0036023616020145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Witte M, Gerstmann U, Neuba A, Henkel G, Schmidt WG. Density functional theory of the CuA
-like Cu2
S2
diamond core in Cu
2II(NGuaS)2
Cl2. J Comput Chem 2016; 37:1005-18. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.24289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2015] [Revised: 11/30/2015] [Accepted: 12/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- M. Witte
- Department of Physics, Lehrstuhl Für Theoretische Materialphysik, Universität Paderborn; Paderborn 33098 Germany
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- Department of Physics, Lehrstuhl Für Theoretische Materialphysik, Universität Paderborn; Paderborn 33098 Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Lehrstuhl Für Anorganische Chemie, Universität Paderborn; Paderborn 33098 Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Lehrstuhl Für Anorganische Chemie, Universität Paderborn; Paderborn 33098 Germany
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- Department of Physics, Lehrstuhl Für Theoretische Materialphysik, Universität Paderborn; Paderborn 33098 Germany
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Chang CH, Richards NGJ. Intrinsic Carbon-Carbon Bond Reactivity at the Manganese Center of Oxalate Decarboxylase from Density Functional Theory. J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 1:994-1007. [PMID: 26641915 DOI: 10.1021/ct050063d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The detailed manganese-dependent chemistry employed by oxalate decarboxylase (OxDC) to catalyze the nonoxidative decarboxylation of oxalic acid remains poorly understood. For example, enzyme activity requires the presence of dioxygen even though this compound is not a formal substrate in the reaction. We now report density functional theory (DFT) calculations upon a series of hypothetical OxDC active site model structures. Our results suggest that the function of the metal ion may be to position dioxygen and oxalate such that electrons can be shuttled directly between these species, thereby removing the need for the existence of Mn(III) as an intermediate in the mechanism. These calculations also indicate that the intrinsic, gas-phase reactivity of the Bacillus subtilis oxalate decarboxylase active center is to oxidize oxalate. Since this reactivity is not observed for OxDC, our DFT results suggest that protein environment modulates the intrinsic metallocenter reactivity, presumably by affecting the electronic distribution at the manganese center during catalysis.
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- Christopher H Chang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7200
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7200
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Zhao Y, Truhlar DG. Exploring the Limit of Accuracy of the Global Hybrid Meta Density Functional for Main-Group Thermochemistry, Kinetics, and Noncovalent Interactions. J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 4:1849-68. [PMID: 26620329 DOI: 10.1021/ct800246v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 752] [Impact Index Per Article: 83.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The hybrid meta density functionals M05-2X and M06-2X have been shown to provide broad accuracy for main group chemistry. In the present article we make the functional form more flexible and improve the self-interaction term in the correlation functional to improve its self-consistent-field convergence. We also explore the constraint of enforcing the exact forms of the exchange and correlation functionals through second order (SO) in the reduced density gradient. This yields two new functionals called M08-HX and M08-SO, with different exact constraints. The new functionals are optimized against 267 diverse main-group energetic data consisting of atomization energies, ionization potentials, electron affinities, proton affinities, dissociation energies, isomerization energies, barrier heights, noncovalent complexation energies, and atomic energies. Then the M08-HX, M08-SO, M05-2X, and M06-2X functionals and the popular B3LYP functional are tested against 250 data that were not part of the original training data for any of the functionals, in particular 164 main-group energetic data in 7 databases, 39 bond lengths, 38 vibrational frequencies, and 9 multiplicity-changing electronic transition energies. These tests include a variety of new challenges for complex systems, including large-molecule atomization energies, organic isomerization energies, interaction energies in uracil trimers, and bond distances in crowded molecules (in particular, cyclophanes). The M08-HX functional performs slightly better than M08-SO and M06-2X on average, significantly better than M05-2X, and much better than B3LYP for a combination of main-group thermochemistry, kinetics, noncovalent interactions, and electronic spectroscopy. More important than the slight improvement in accuracy afforded by M08-HX is the conformation that the optimization procedure works well for data outside the training set. Problems for which the accuracy is especially improved by the new M08-HX functional include large-molecule atomization energies, noncovalent interaction energies, conformational energies in aromatic peptides, barrier heights, multiplicity-changing excitation energies, and bond lengths in crowded molecules.
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- Yan Zhao
- Department of Chemistry and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street S.E., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431
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- Department of Chemistry and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street S.E., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431
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Bento AP, Solà M, Bickelhaupt FM. E2 and SN2 Reactions of X(-) + CH3CH2X (X = F, Cl); an ab Initio and DFT Benchmark Study. J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 4:929-40. [PMID: 26621234 DOI: 10.1021/ct700318e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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We have computed consistent benchmark potential energy surfaces (PESs) for the anti-E2, syn-E2, and SN2 pathways of X(-) + CH3CH2X with X = F and Cl. This benchmark has been used to evaluate the performance of 31 popular density functionals, covering local-density approximation, generalized gradient approximation (GGA), meta-GGA, and hybrid density-functional theory (DFT). The ab initio benchmark has been obtained by exploring the PESs using a hierarchical series of ab initio methods [up to CCSD(T)] in combination with a hierarchical series of Gaussian-type basis sets (up to aug-cc-pVQZ). Our best CCSD(T) estimates show that the overall barriers for the various pathways increase in the order anti-E2 (X = F) < SN2 (X = F) < SN2 (X = Cl) ∼ syn-E2 (X = F) < anti-E2 (X = Cl) < syn-E2 (X = Cl). Thus, anti-E2 dominates for F(-) + CH3CH2F, and SN2 dominates for Cl(-) + CH3CH2Cl, while syn-E2 is in all cases the least favorable pathway. Best overall agreement with our ab initio benchmark is obtained by representatives from each of the three categories of functionals, GGA, meta-GGA, and hybrid DFT, with mean absolute errors in, for example, central barriers of 4.3 (OPBE), 2.2 (M06-L), and 2.0 kcal/mol (M06), respectively. Importantly, the hybrid functional BHandH and the meta-GGA M06-L yield incorrect trends and qualitative features of the PESs (in particular, an erroneous preference for SN2 over the anti-E2 in the case of F(-) + CH3CH2F) even though they are among the best functionals as measured by their small mean absolute errors of 3.3 and 2.2 kcal/mol in reaction barriers. OLYP and B3LYP have somewhat higher mean absolute errors in central barriers (5.6 and 4.8 kcal/mol, respectively), but the error distribution is somewhat more uniform, and as a consequence, the correct trends are reproduced.
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- A Patrícia Bento
- Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling, Scheikundig Laboratorium der Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1083, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Institut de Química Computacional, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, E-17071 Girona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling, Scheikundig Laboratorium der Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1083, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Institut de Química Computacional, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, E-17071 Girona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling, Scheikundig Laboratorium der Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1083, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Institut de Química Computacional, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, E-17071 Girona, Catalonia, Spain
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Aquilante F, Malmqvist PÅ, Pedersen TB, Ghosh A, Roos BO. Cholesky Decomposition-Based Multiconfiguration Second-Order Perturbation Theory (CD-CASPT2): Application to the Spin-State Energetics of Co(III)(diiminato)(NPh). J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 4:694-702. [PMID: 26621084 DOI: 10.1021/ct700263h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 292] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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The electronic structure and low-lying electronic states of a Co(III)(diiminato)(NPh) complex have been studied using multiconfigurational wave function theory (CASSCF/CASPT2). The results have been compared to those obtained with density functional theory. The best agreement with ab initio results is obtained with a modified B3LYP functional containing a reduced amount (15%) of Hartree-Fock exchange. A relativistic basis set with 869 functions has been employed in the most extensive ab initio calculations, where a Cholesky decomposition technique was used to overcome problems arising from the large size of the two-electron integral matrix. It is shown that this approximation reproduces results obtained with the full integral set to a high accuracy, thus opening the possibility to use this approach to perform multiconfigurational wave-function-based quantum chemistry on much larger systems relative to what has been possible until now.
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- Francesco Aquilante
- Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Chemical Center, University of Lund, P.O. Box 124, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden, and Department of Chemistry, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Chemical Center, University of Lund, P.O. Box 124, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden, and Department of Chemistry, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Chemical Center, University of Lund, P.O. Box 124, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden, and Department of Chemistry, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Chemical Center, University of Lund, P.O. Box 124, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden, and Department of Chemistry, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Chemical Center, University of Lund, P.O. Box 124, S-221 00 Lund, Sweden, and Department of Chemistry, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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Swart M, Solà M, Bickelhaupt FM. Density Functional Calculations of E2 and SN2 Reactions: Effects of the Choice of Method, Algorithm, and Numerical Accuracy. J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 6:3145-52. [PMID: 26616777 DOI: 10.1021/ct100454c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
Herein we provide a detailed account on how the potential energy surfaces of the E2 and SN2 reactions of X(-) + CH3CH2X (X = F, Cl) depend on various methodological and technical choices in density functional calculations. We cover a choice of density functionals (OLYP, various M06-types, and the new SSB-D), basis sets (up to quintuple- and quadruple-ζ for Gaussian- and Slater-type orbitals, respectively, plus polarization and diffuse functions), and other aspects of the computations (among others: nonrelativistic versus zeroth-order regular approximation relativistic; numerical integration accuracy; all-electron versus frozen core; self-consistent field (SCF) versus post-SCF). The program codes ADF and NWChem are used for calculations with Slater- and Gaussian-type basis sets, respectively. The fluoride systems (X = F) appear to not only depend extremely sensitively on the basis set size (especially the presence of diffuse functions) but also on other technical settings, especially in the case of hybrid meta-generalized gradient approximation functionals. This work complements a recent contribution (Y. Zhao, D. G. Truhlar, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2010, 6, 1104) and provides recommendations for density functionals, basis sets, and technical settings.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marcel Swart
- Institut de Química Computacional and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, E-17071 Girona, Spain, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Pg. Lluís Companys 23, E-08010 Barcelona, Spain, and Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling (ACMM), Scheikundig Laboratorium der Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1083, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Miquel Solà
- Institut de Química Computacional and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, E-17071 Girona, Spain, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Pg. Lluís Companys 23, E-08010 Barcelona, Spain, and Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling (ACMM), Scheikundig Laboratorium der Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1083, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institut de Química Computacional and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus Montilivi, E-17071 Girona, Spain, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Pg. Lluís Companys 23, E-08010 Barcelona, Spain, and Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling (ACMM), Scheikundig Laboratorium der Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1083, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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