121st General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Physical Chemistry
Room No. Event Hall
Time 4월 20일 (금요일) 11:00~12:30
Code PHYS.P-117
Subject Accurate prediction of reaction barrier height by analyzing DFT errors
Authors Suhwan Song, Eunji Sim*
Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, Korea
Abstract Many systematic errors of semilocal DFT (GGAs and hybrids) are due to errors in the self-consistent density, and so can be reduced by using a more accurate density. For anions, radicals in solution, stretched bonds, reaction barrier heights, and even transition metal complexes, DFT results are substantially improved by using Hartree-Fock densities (called HF-DFT). We revisit the case of reaction barriers, showing that while HF-DFT can reduce barrier height errors by a factor of 2 or 3, even for hybrid functionals, different classes of barriers behave in different ways.
E-mail nesquik91@yonsei.ac.kr