Abstract
The performance of the M06 family of exchange-correlation potentials for describing the electronic structure and the Heisenberg magnetic coupling constant (J) is investigated using a set of representative open-shell systems involving two unpaired electrons. The set of molecular systems studied has well defined structures, and their magnetic coupling values are known experimentally. As a general trend, the M06 functional is about equally as accurate as B3LYP or PBE0. The performance of local functionals is important because of their economy and convenience for large-scale calculations; we find that M06-L local functional of the M06 family largely improves over the local spin density approximation and the generalized gradient approximation.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 114103 |
Journal | Journal of Chemical Physics |
Volume | 128 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Financial support has been provided by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (Grant Nos. CTQ2005-08459-CO2-01, UNBA05-33-001, and CTQ2005-03222 and “Ramón y Cajal” program (I.P.R.M.)) and by Generalitat de Catalunya (2005SGR-00697). This work has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. CHE-0704974.