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  • Sources of Error in DFT Com...
    Pieniazek, Susan N; Clemente, Fernando R; Houk, Kendall N

    Angewandte Chemie (International ed.), September 22, 2008, Volume: 47, Issue: 40
    Journal Article

    Alarming: Multiple sources of errors in DFT energetics of CC bond‐forming reactions were investigated by evaluating structural transformations in Diels–Alder reactions: conversion of π into σ bonds and changes in conjugation, hyperconjugation, and branching interactions. A startling overestimation of the π to σ bond conversion is found with most methods, a central problem to all reactions involving addition of π bonds (electrocyclic processes, ene, aldol).