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Joined January 2012
Q-Chem 7 is here! Read about the latest features, including new DFT functionals, numerical sparsity speedups, faster NMR, MRSF-TDDF, and more: q-chem.com/explore/qc7/ Request a free, month-long demo of Q-Chem and QC-PBC, free of charge: q-chem.com/try/ #compchem
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Learn more about Q-Chem's periodic boundary conditions code by watching Joonho Lee's recent webinar about QCPBC, now available on YouTube: youtu.be/47c0PBjAtGk
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Find out more about QC-PBC, our new GPW-based package for modeling materials, at this week's webinar by Joonho Lee. Register here: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
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In this recent paper, authors study the effect of pendant anionic substituents on the redox properties of ruthenium catalysts for water oxidation. They use Q-Chem's DFT and analyze geometries and charge/spin population data using IQmol. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.6c0…
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New preprint: Spin-unrestricted linear-scaling double-hybrid #DFT! Here, authors generalize their earlier linear-scaling MP2 implementation to the spin-unrestricted case, enabling asymptotically linear-scaling DH-DFT for open shell and reactive molecules. doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15…
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Correction: The caption indicates that AVIXIO was the largest benchmarked in the preprint, when in fact it was just the largest within the large-systems testbed. (The largest system tested in the preprint overall was AVIXIO1, with 8,792 basis functions!)
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In this recent preprint, authors use Q-Chem's CCSD and ezFCF to help explain their experimentally-observed high-resolution photoelectron spectra for excited TiO2 anions. doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15… Try spectroscopy features in Q-Chem 7: q-chem.com/try/
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DFT/XCIS for valence and core-level spectroscopy has been extended to open shell molecules! In this new preprint, developers discuss their new implementation and use it to model spectra of several systems: doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15… Try XCIS-CVS in Q-Chem: q-chem.com/try/
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Don't forget: The new COACH #DFT functional is now available in Q-Chem 7! COACH is a new range-separated hybrid (RSH) meta-GGA functional that strikes a balance between simplicity, accuracy, and transferability. doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.… Try it in Q-Chem 7: q-chem.com/try/
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Researchers recently used wavenumber power scaling to derive scaling factors for fundamental harmonic vibrational frequencies and thermodynamic corrections. They used Q-Chem to obtain geometries and frequencies with MP2, CCSD, and >40 DFT functionals. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.6c0…
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New in Q-Chem 7: ECD with TDDFT! ECD enables studies of chiral molecules; Q-Chem's EOM-CC ECD can provide high-level benchmarks for medium-sized systems, while the new TDDFT implementation extends this capability to large systems. Try it in Q-Chem 7: q-chem.com/try/
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In this recent paper, authors study the low-lying ππ* excited states in five-membered ring heterocycles, using both VB and MO theory and leveraging Q-Chem's ADC(1), ADC(2), ADC(3), and TDDFT capabilities. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.6c0… Try Q-Chem 7: q-chem.com/try/
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In this new paper, authors use a combined experimental and theoretical approach to study the structure and temperature of glycerol aerosols. They use Q-Chem to model the X-ray absorption spectra with EA-TDDFT. doi.org/10.1039/d6cp03003c Try Q-Chem 7 today: q-chem.com/try/
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Did you miss last week's webinar on M-Chem, our new biomolecular modeling package? Not to worry; the recording has now been posted on our YouTube channel. Watch it here: youtu.be/2Aw2hcQCqz4
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Check out this recent preprint, which uses the new #MP2 #EDA in Q-Chem 7 to characterize a variety of hydrogen, halogen, and tetrel bonds. doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15… Try correlated wavefunction EDA in Q-Chem 7: q-chem.com/try/
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Don't forget about our upcoming webinar on M-Chem! Learn about the exciting developments in our new biomolecular modeling package: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_… Want a preview? Read the M-Chem paper: doi.org/10.1080/00268976.202…
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Join us this Thursday at 11AM PDT for a webinar from developer Jagna Witek on M-Chem: Q-Chem's new module for biomolecular modeling! zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_…
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Can #AI be used to model X-ray spectra? In this preprint, researchers at LBNL present an agentic AI framework for automated first-principles X-ray spectroscopy modeling, using Q-Chem's ∆SCF as the molecular component for their back-end. doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15…
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Q-Chem 7 features new super-fast #NMR code! It's up to 150x faster than previous versions when run in parallel, and includes #OpenMP and #MPI parallelization for vastly improved performance. Request a free trial of Q-Chem 7 to try it yourself: q-chem.com/try/
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In this recent preprint, authors probe the effects of pressure and solvation in intermolecular charge-transfer excitations using TD-DFT and ALMO-SGM in Q-Chem. #compchem #TDDFT Read the paper: doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15… Try Q-Chem today: q-chem.com/try/
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Q-Chem 7 includes OVOCV analysis for #EDA and OO-#DFT! OVOCV can be used to replace or complement NOCV analysis in EDA, providing clearer identification of donor and acceptor orbitals than NOCV methods. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.4c0… Try Q-Chem 7 for free: q-chem.com/try/
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