Efficient Constrained Density Functional Theory Implementation for Simulation of Condensed Phase Electron Transfer Reactions

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2016-12-23

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Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, Volume 13, issue 2, pp. 587-601

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Constrained density functional theory (CDFT) is a versatile tool for probing the kinetics of electron transfer (ET) reactions. In this work, we present a well-scaling parallel CDFT implementation relying on a mixed basis set of Gaussian functions and plane waves, which has been specifically tailored to investigate condensed phase ET reactions using an explicit, quantum chemical representation of the solvent. The accuracy of our implementation is validated against previous theoretical results for predicting electronic couplings and charge transfer energies. Subsequently, we demonstrate the efficiency of our method by studying the intramolecular ET reaction of an organic mixed-valence compound in water using a CDFT based molecular dynamics simulation.

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Holmberg, N & Laasonen, K 2016, ' Efficient Constrained Density Functional Theory Implementation for Simulation of Condensed Phase Electron Transfer Reactions ', Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 587-601 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.6b01085