Doubling down on density-functional theory.

J Chem Phys

Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, 6274 Coburg Road, P.O. Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2, Canada.

Published: December 2023

In a recent paper, Becke et al. [J. Chem. Phys. 158, 151103 (2023)] presented a novel double hybrid density functional, "DH23," whose terms are based on good physics. Its 12 coefficients were trained on the GMTKN55 (general main-group thermochemistry, kinetics, and noncovalent interactions) chemical database of Goerigk et al. [Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 19, 32184 (2017)]. The lowest GMTKN55 "WTMAD2" error to date for any hybrid or double hybrid density functional was obtained (1.76 kcal/mol). Here, we make some revisions to DH23 and test its efficacy on reference data beyond GMTKN55, namely, organometallic reaction energies and barrier heights. The results confirm that DH23 is robust outside its training set. In the process, a slightly smaller GMTKN55 WTMAD2 of 1.73 kcal/mol is achieved.

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