[DFTB-Plus-User] Halogen bonding correction on DFTB+

Francisco Adasme francisco.adasme at gmail.com
Mon Sep 11 20:24:59 CEST 2017


Dear Bálint,

Thank you for your reply. I look forward to their response... it'd much
appreciated.

Regards,
Francisco.

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 4:07 AM, Bálint Aradi <aradi at uni-bremen.de> wrote:

> Dear Francisco,
>
> > I'm interested in optimizing some halogen-bonded dimers using DFTB3
> > as parameterized in [J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2015, 11 (1), pp
> > 332–342 <http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ct5009137>]. In the
> > article, the authors stated that the X correction was implemented in
> > a modified version of DFTB+, but there is no such version available
> > in the webpage nor a mention about it in the manual. So I'm wondering
> > where I can find the X-corrected code or if there is an undocumented
> > option to enable it in the current code.
>
> You are right, that correction is not contained within the open source
> version of the code. It is apparently a special version of the code with
> the old license, which the authors of the paper customised to their needs.
>
> I've now contacted them and asked, whether they could make their
> halogen-bond correction public by adding it to the official (open
> source) version of the DFTB+.
>
>   Best regards,
>
>   Bálint
>
>
> --
> Dr. Bálint Aradi
> Bremen Center for Computational Materials Science, University of Bremen
> http://www.bccms.uni-bremen.de/cms/people/b-aradi/
>
>
>
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