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Benchmarking DFT-D Dispersion Corrections for Anharmonic Vibrational Frequencies and Harmonic Scaling Factors.

Magnus W D Hanson-Heine
Published in: The journal of physical chemistry. A (2019)
Improvements in the form of the DFT-D empirical dispersion corrections to hybrid density functional theory are shown to have made corrections sufficiently accurate to improve the calculation of both anharmonic frequencies and scaled harmonic vibrational frequencies across a wide range of commonly tested molecules. The Becke-Johnson damping function is noted as being particularly versatile across the molecules tested, and the B3LYP-D3M(BJ) and B3LYP-D3(CSO) methods are found to be the most widely applicable. Dispersion corrections are shown to be important for accurately describing carbon-hydrogen bond stretching vibrations, and standard triple-dipole based three-body terms are found to cause large errors in these anharmonic frequencies. Preliminary results also indicate that there is a cancellation of error at this level of theory when using smaller finite difference step sizes to calculate anharmonic derivatives of the nuclear potential energy surface.
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