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Double-hybrid density functionals free of dispersion and counterpoise corrections for non-covalent interactions
1Department of Physics, School of Science, Xi'an Technological University , No. 4 Jinhua North Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, China.
Abstract:
We have optimized two double-hybrid density functionals (DHDFs) within the frameworks of B2PLYP and mPW2-PLYP against the S22B database. These two functionals are denoted as B2NC-PLYP and mPW2NC-PLYP, where "NC" represents noncovalent interaction. The DHDFs of B2NC-PLYP and mPW2NC-PLYP are optimized free of dispersion and counterpoise corrections with triple-ζ quality basis sets. Combined with the aug-cc-pVTZ basis set, these two functionals are further assessed with the S66 database. According to our computations, both the B2NC-PLYP and mPW2NC-PLYP functionals seem to be competent for investigating noncovalent interactions. Note that the triple-ζ quality basis sets with adequate polarization and diffuse functions should be employed for practical applications. However, different exchange and correlation functionals may be selected and/or modified to reduce the amount of the Fock-exchange in the future.
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