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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
Volume 14, Issue 1, Pages 180-190Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b01078
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- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Early Career Research Program [DE-SC0016269]
- National Science Foundation through the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) [TG-ENG160024]
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We present a new analysis of exchange and dispersion effects for calculating halogen-bonding interactions in a wide variety of complex dimers (69 total) within the XB18 and XB51 benchmark sets. Contrary to previous work on these systems, we find that dispersion plays a more significant role than exact exchange in accurately calculating halogen-bonding interaction energies, which are further confirmed by extensive SAPT analyses. In particular, we find that even if the amount of exact exchange is nonempirically tuned to satisfy known DFT constraints, we still observe an overall improvement in predicting dissociation energies when dispersion corrections are applied, in stark contrast to previous studies (Kozuch, S.; Martin, J. M. L. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2013 , 9 , 1918-1931 ). In addition to these new analyses, we correct several (14) inconsistencies in the XB51 set, which is widely used in the scientific literature for developing and benchmarking various DFT methods. Together, these new analyses and revised benchmarks emphasize the importance of dispersion and provide corrected reference values that are essential for developing/parametrizing new DFT functionals, specifically for complex halogen-bonding interactions.
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