期刊
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
卷 37, 期 22, 页码 2106-2117出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcc.24437
关键词
chemical discovery; structure generation; first-principles simulation; high-throughput screening; python
资金
- MIT energy initiative
- MIT Research Support Corporation
- National Science Foundation [ECCS-1449291, ACI-1053575]
We present an automated, open source toolkit for the first-principles screening and discovery of new inorganic molecules and intermolecular complexes. Challenges remain in the automatic generation of candidate inorganic molecule structures due to the high variability in coordination and bonding, which we overcome through a divide-and-conquer tactic that flexibly combines force-field preoptimization of organic fragments with alignment to first-principles-trained metal-ligand distances. Exploration of chemical space is enabled through random generation of ligands and intermolecular complexes from large chemical databases. We validate the generated structures with the root mean squared (RMS) gradients evaluated from density functional theory (DFT), which are around 0.02 Ha/au across a large 150 molecule test set. Comparison of molSimplify results to full optimization with the universal force field reveals that RMS DFT gradients are improved by 40%. Seamless generation of input files, preparation and execution of electronic structure calculations, and post-processing for each generated structure aids interpretation of underlying chemical and energetic trends. (c) 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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