REMINDER: This happens tonight at 2030 hrs CET.

Looking forward to seeing you there!
#DFT #COMPCHEM

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Voting is over and the slot late next Saturday (26th Juli, 2030hrs) won.

Here is the Link to the meeting: us06web.zoom.us/j/8182541363...

Password is the r2SCAN-3c basis set without the leading "def2-" (or just send me a PM ;)

Looking forward to seeing you there!

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May I interest you in a deep dive into the Hohenberg-Kohn theorems and the Kohn-Sham approach? 🤓

👉 Follow the link and pick your favorite timeslot for the 3rd DFT&A lecture: www.reddit.com/r/comp_chem/...

Links to the recordings of lectures 1 (History) & 2 (Hartree-Fock) are also available there.

Okay - !Rigidbodyopt and GOAT-Diversity are also very nice and impressive new features @bernadsz.bsky.social. Soo many ideas...

FACCTs FACCTs is bringing the ORCA software to industry - promoting the next Quantum leaps in the Pharma, Materials and Chemical Industries.

Missed the ORCA 6.1 release event? All talks are now online on our YouTube channel!

www.youtube.com/@faccts_orca

ORCA 6.1 Release Event Playlist:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRSk...

#ORCA61 #ORCAqc #FACCTs #MPIKOFO #CompChem #QuantumChem #ChemSky #CompChemSky

For anyone who missed it:
Particularly interested in @lukaswittmann.bsky.social on DRACO and the new DeltaSCF capabilities.
#compchem

🎉 DFT-accurate, with built-in uncertainty quantification, providing chemical shielding anisotropy - ShiftML3.0 has it all! Building on a successful @nccr-marvel.bsky.social-funded collaboration with LRM🧲⚛️, it just landed on the arXiv arxiv.org/html/2506.13... and on pypi pypi.org/project/shif...

Congrats to everyone involved but especially @jan.hermann.name , David Williams-Young, Sebastian Ehlert, and perhaps others who I know on the author list. #chemsky #compchemsky

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2nd virtual lecture in the DFT&Application series starts today at 1500hrs CET (in 15 minutes!). Topics are Hartree Fock, SCF, and their connection to DFT.

Join us in Zoom: us06web.zoom.us/j/8607128794...

#compchem #dft

PhD position in machine learning for photocatalysis

We are recruiting a PhD student in machine learning for photocatalysis! In this project, we will collaborate with the group of Frank Glorius @gloriusgroup.bsky.social to develop predictive tools for energy-transfer-catalyzed photocycloadditions.

Reposts appreciated!
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That's was indeed a very good idea. Thanks Lisa for initiating this!

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Hey #compchem people from @grimmelab.bsky.social and elsewhere!
Over at Reddit, we have this lovely r/comp_chem Subreddit (www.reddit.com/r/comp_chem/...), where I am gauging the interest in a virtual lecture on DFT&A. Maybe this is sth for you? Pay us a visit and leave a comment!

You got a rank, you are in the top 2%. Congrats!

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Congratulations @grimmelab.bsky.social for an impressive 6th place across all disciplines: topresearcherslist.com

With #compchem (DFT-D) taking first place in chemistry, and Georg Kresse (VASP/PAW-PPs/DFT) taking the 2nd place (overall, 1st in physics), I'd say:

DFT is winning science :)

There's an open position with Prof. Frank Neese, together with Prof. Stefan Grime to work on the next gen. of xTB in ORCA.

Two of the most brilliant people out there in #compchem within a great group environment. It's a one-of-a-kind opportunity here!

I have seen some data, g-xTB will be a blast.

Many US students don’t know how to seek opportunities outside the US. With some help from our colleagues in EU and Canada, we could put together a consolidated website of PhD opportunities and scholarships outside the US, organized by field. There might still be time for this year in some places.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work together with some of the finest and most inspiring scientists I know on the best #compchem software out there. #chemsky

Our vDZP basis set utilized in the ⍵B97X-3c composite DFT method is now also available via www.basissetexchange.org (API-based: github.com/MolSSI-BSE/b...). 🎉
Many thanks to @Susi Lehtola & coworkers for jointly providing it there!

Cover image for PTB on the "The Journal of Chemical Physics".

PTB (xtb-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pt...) is finally available on all platforms in xtb>=6.7.0 (github.com/grimme-lab/xtb), including conda-forge – give it a try for electron densities at DFT-level with tight-binding speed and very accurate vibrational spectroscopy intensities! ⚡️ #compchem

Thanks! Yes, UKS triplets are available in almost every DFT program.
For the singlets, you will need the maximum overlap method, which is available in Q-Chem 6 (which we use because of eq. and noneq. solvation) and @faccts-orca.bsky.social ORCA6. For convenience, sample inputs are in the SI ;)

On a diverse set with exp. refs. (black), ΔUKS (red/blue) beats SCS-CC2 for ΔE(ST) at a small fraction of the cost. Further, because it's so cheap, we can optimize (in solution!) and obtain accurate emission energies! Fresh from the press today in @acs.org JPCL: doi.org/10.1021/acs.... #compchem

Wave function methods like CC2/ADC(2) are accurate (also some DHDFs), but too slow to cover large search spaces in high throughout screenings.
This is where the state-specific ΔDFT/UKS developed in cooperation with @grimmelab.bsky.social really shines
(same for classic DA-TADF and INVEST emitters):

... achieves a small enough gap with the favorable properties of the mass-produced tDABNA.
A key challenge in the (re)search for the "eierlegende Wollmilch-DABNA" is the challenging electronic structure with short-range charge-transfer (SRCT) states, which cannot be modeled efficiently with TDDFT.

Overview over structural motifs found in MR-TADF emitters

Multiresonance TADF emitters are almost perfect for #OLED: brilliant deep blue emission, stable, and volatile. If only their singlet-triplet gap ΔE(ST) was a little smaller, they could harvest triplets without the need for an Ir or Pt complex. However, none of the known permutations... #compchem🧶

#compchemsky Good read.

Efficient Computation of the Interaction Energies of Very Large Non-covalently Bound Complexes Thieme E-Books & E-Journals

See how well low-cost methods describe non-covalent interactions in very large complexes (up to 2000 atoms!) and test your own methods on the LNCI16 benchmark set presented in our article @synlettjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1055/s-00... @grimmelab.bsky.social

Working with Stefan has always been an inspiring pleasure. It's particularly fascinating how naturally he navigates the manifold physics that govern chemistry, always on the look for a more elegant and efficient approximation.
This award is well deserved! Congratulations @grimmelab.bsky.social!

GitHub - grimme-lab/CENSO: CENSO - Commandline ENergetic SOrting of Conformer Rotamer Ensembles CENSO - Commandline ENergetic SOrting of Conformer Rotamer Ensembles - grimme-lab/CENSO

That's pretty much what censo is for (besides many other things it can do). We (Leopold Seidler) recently did a complete rewrite in modern Python, making it possible to use CENSO 2.0 as a library. I guess that could be useful here. github.com/grimme-lab/C...

Yes. We shipped ANI-2 scripts with v1.99 and I have an AIMNET2 script on my laptop.

The batch optimization is a suggestion from @olexandr.bsky.social and I'll implement that soon.

The xTB integration also looks very usable. I will try to get this working tomorrow (maybe even tonight)... This would be huge for my workflow. Fantastic work! Can not thank you enough!