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Balancing Density Functional Theory Interaction Energies in Charged Dimers Precursors to Organic Semiconductors

Fabrizio, Alberto  
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Petraglia, Riccardo
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Corminboeuf, Clemence  
June 9, 2020
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

The pursuit of an increasingly accurate description of intermolecular interactions within the framework of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT) has motivated the construction of numerous benchmark databases over the past two decades. By far, the largest efforts have been spent on closed-shell, neutral dimers for which today the interaction energies and geometries can be accurately reproduced by various combinations of dispersion-corrected density functional approximations (DFAs). In sharp contrast, charged, open-shell dimers remain a challenge as illustrated by the analysis of the OREL26rad benchmark set, composed of pi-dimer radical cations. Aside from the methodological aspect, achieving a proper description of radical cationic complexes is appealing due to their role as models for charge carriers in organic semiconductors. In the interest of providing an assessment of more realistic dimer systems, we construct a data set of large radical cationic dimers (CryOrel9) and jointly train the 19 parameters of a dispersion corrected, range-separated hybrid density functional (omega B97X-dDsC). The main objective of omega B97X-dDsC is to provide the maximum balance between the treatment of long-range London dispersion and reduction of the delocalization error, which are essential conditions to obtain accurate energy profiles and binding energies of charged, open-shell dimers. The performance of omega B97X-dDsC, its parent omega B97X functional series, and a selection of wave function-based methods is reported for the CryOrel9 data set. The robustness of the reoptimized variant (omega B97X-dDsC) is also tested on other GMTKN30 data sets.

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DOI
10.1021/acs.jctc.9b01193
Web of Science ID

WOS:000541503600008

Author(s)
Fabrizio, Alberto  
Petraglia, Riccardo
Corminboeuf, Clemence  
Date Issued

2020-06-09

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Published in
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
Volume

16

Issue

6

Start page

3530

End page

3542

Subjects

Chemistry, Physical

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Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical

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Chemistry

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Physics

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generalized gradient approximation

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main-group thermochemistry

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noncovalent interactions

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computational chemistry

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crystal-structure

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basis-sets

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dispersion

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hybrid

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database

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accurate

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