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Are dispersion corrections accurate outside equilibrium? A case study on benzene

Overview of attention for article published in Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, May 2018
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Title
Are dispersion corrections accurate outside equilibrium? A case study on benzene
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Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, May 2018
DOI 10.3762/bjoc.14.99
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Tim Gould, Erin R Johnson, Sherif Abdulkader Tawfik

Abstract

Modern approaches to modelling dispersion forces are becoming increasingly accurate, and can predict accurate binding distances and energies. However, it is possible that these successes reflect a fortuitous cancellation of errors at equilibrium. Thus, in this work we investigate whether a selection of modern dispersion methods agree with benchmark calculations across several potential-energy curves of the benzene dimer to determine if they are capable of describing forces and energies outside equilibrium. We find the exchange-hole dipole moment (XDM) model describes most cases with the highest overall agreement with reference data for energies and forces, with many-body dispersion (MBD) and its fractionally ionic (FI) variant performing essentially as well. Popular approaches, such as Grimme-D and van der Waals density functional approximations (vdW-DFAs) underperform on our tests. The meta-GGA M06-L is surprisingly good for a method without explicit dispersion corrections. Some problems with SCAN+rVV10 are uncovered and briefly discussed.

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Unknown 22 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 32%
Student > Master 3 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 9%
Other 1 5%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 8 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Chemistry 10 45%
Physics and Astronomy 2 9%
Materials Science 1 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 5%
Unknown 8 36%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 June 2022.
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#14,393,794
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#613
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