Assessment of the Performance of DFT and DFT-D Methods for Describing Distance Dependence of Hydrogen-Bonded Interactions

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• 作者：Kanchana S. Thanthiriwatte ; Edward G. Hohenstein ; Lori A. Burns ; C. David Sherrill
• 刊名：Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：January 11, 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：7
• 期：1
• 页码：88-96
• 全文大小：495K
• 年卷期：v.7,no.1(January 11, 2011)
• ISSN：1549-9626

文摘

Noncovalent interactions such as hydrogen bonds, van der Waals forces, and 蟺鈭捪€ interactions play important roles influencing the structure, stability, and dynamic properties of biomolecules including DNA and RNA base pairs. In an effort to better understand the fundamental physics of hydrogen bonding (H-bonding), we investigate the distance dependence of interaction energies in the prototype bimolecular complexes of formic acid, formamide, and formamidine. Potential energy curves along the H-bonding dissociation coordinate are examined both by establishing reference CCSD(T) interaction energies extrapolated to the complete basis set limit and by assessing the performance of the density functional methods B3LYP, PBE, PBE0, B970, PB86, M05-2X, and M06-2X and empirical dispersion corrected methods B3LYP-D3, PBE-D3, PBE0-D3, B970-D2, BP86-D3, and 蠅B97X-D, with basis sets 6-311++G(3df,3pd), aug-cc-pVDZ, and aug-cc-pVTZ. Although H-bonding interactions are dominated by electrostatics, it is necessary to properly account for dispersion interactions to obtain accurate energetics. In order to quantitatively probe the nature of hydrogen bonding interactions as a function of distance, we decompose the interaction energy curves into physically meaningful components with symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT). The SAPT results confirm that the contribution of dispersion and induction are significant at and near equilibrium, although electrostatics dominate. Among the DFT/DFT-D techniques, the best overall results are obtained utilizing counterpoise-corrected 蠅B97X-D with the aug-cc-pVDZ basis set.