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Molecular Tailoring: An Art of the Possible for Ab Initio Treatment of Large Molecules and Molecular Clusters

  • Anuja P. Rahalkar
  • Sachin D. Yeole
  • V. Ganesh
  • Shridhar R. GadreEmail author
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Part of the Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics book series (COCH, volume 13)

Abstract

Divide-and-conquer (DC) type methods are being actively developed in order to break the bottleneck of high scaling order of ab initio calculations of large molecules. Molecular Tailoring Approach (MTA) is one of such early attempts, which scissors the parent molecular system into subsystems (fragments). The properties of these subsystems are stitched back in order to estimate those for the parent system. Inclusion-exclusion principle from set theory is incorporated into MTA, which allows accurate estimation of electronic energy, energy-gradients and Hessian. This Chapter summarizes the algorithm, equations as well as basic parameters for obtaining an optimal fragmentation for a given molecule. The fragmentation in MTA is exclusively based on distance-criterion allowing its application to a general class of molecules. Further, the versatility of this method with respect to the level of theory [Hartree-Fock (HF) method, Møller-Plesset second order perturbation theory (MP2) and Density Functional Theory (DFT)] as well as the basis set is illustrated. Apart from earlier benchmarks, a few new test cases including geometry optimization of variety of molecules, benzene clusters, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, metal cluster and a protein with charged centers are presented in this Chapter.

Keywords

Molecular tailoring approach (MTA) Linear scaling methods Hartree-Fock (HF) Theory Density functional theory (DFT) Møller-Plesset second order perturbation (MP2) theory π-conjugation Large molecules 
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Acknowledgments

Authors thank the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune; Naval Research Board (NRB), New Delhi and Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) program in Chemistry supported by the University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi for financial assistance and computational resource availability. APR is grateful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi for funding. SRG is thankful to Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi for the award of a J. C. Bose Fellowship to him.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Anuja P. Rahalkar
    • 1
    • 2
  • Sachin D. Yeole
    • 1
    • 2
  • V. Ganesh
    • 3
  • Shridhar R. Gadre
    • 1
    • 2
    Email author
  1. 1.Department of ChemistryUniversity of PunePuneIndia
  2. 2.Department of ChemistryIIT KanpurKanpurIndia
  3. 3.Department of Computer ScienceAustralian National UniversityCanberraAustralia

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