Missed the ORCA 6 Release Event? No problem, all talks are now available on our YouTube channel (
@faccts_orca
), the academic (MPI KoFo) ORCA channel (), and the ORCA forum ().
#ORCAqc
#ORCA6
#compchem
ORCA6 is finally released! 🥳 Important links:
* academics can download it directly from:
commercial entities please contact info
@faccts
.de
* we have a new on-line manual:
* and updated tutorials:
ORCA 6 (
@faccts_orca
& MPI KoFo) is released and with it many more great new features! Today we would like to highlight some new features in the area of DFT, many of which were contributed by our friends from the
@GrimmeLab
.
#ORCAqc
#ORCA6
#compchem
#DFT
We are proud of Prof. Frank Neese, founder of ORCA and co-founder of
@faccts_orca
! He will be awarded the Schrödinger Medal from
@watoc2020
, which is given to honor outstanding theoretical and computational chemists. 🥳
#compchem
Over the next few weeks, we would like to give you a taste of some of the new features coming with ORCA 6 (
@faccts_orca
). This week we start with solvation methods including DRACO, openCOSMO-RS, the SOLVATOR tool and more. Stay tuned!
#ORCA6
#ORCAqc
#compchem
#solvation
ORCA6 release tomorrow! 🥳
The links for the release event are already here:
We put a lot of effort there and hope you can make the best out of it. Please also join the ORCA forum for more detailed discussions:
#compchem
#ORCA6
ORCA 6 is not out of the oven yet, but meanwhile we released a new bugfix version ORCA 5.0.4.
Always up to date with the latest version!
Free download for academics at
Others please contact info
@faccts
.de.
Have fun with ORCA!
#compchem
Want to try Computational Chemistry, but don't know where to start?
Check out our hands-on ORCA Tutorials. And feel free to suggest new ones 😉.
#compchem
#learning
New week, new features! This time we highlight new methods from the field of wave function theory. Stay tuned for more to come with ORCA 6 (
@faccts_orca
). We hope to see many of you at the release event next week!
#ORCA6release
#ORCAqc
#wavefunctiontheory
The D4 dispersion correction is now available for the whole actinide series and r²SCAN-3c can also be used for these elements within ORCA6. Check out the joint paper of the
@grimme_lab
, the MPI Kofo, and FACCTs (
@faccts_orca
).
#ORCAqc
#ORCA6
#actinides
Today we highlight some of the multiscale methods and functionalities that are particularly useful for describing large and environment-dependent systems with ORCA6 (
@faccts_orca
). Stay tuned for more and don’t miss the release event at the end of July!
#ORCA6
#ORCAqc
#compchem
Here is our second ORCA ONIOM tutorial from this series, now exploring mixing different DFT methods and even DLPNO-CCSD(T)!
This time, we will investigate a reaction barrier and explain more details about the method. Hope you all enjoy it!
#compchem
Our newest ORCA 5.0.3 is out! It is a bugfix version only, but we recommend everybody to always keep updated.
#compchem
#update
For academic users please download it from . Our industry partners will get the updated version as soon as possible.
Prof. Frank Neese presented on
#WATOC2020
some of the newest developments in multireference perturbation theory.
Wait to see the new NEVPT2 versions coming! There is a huge gain in efficiency on the way 😉🤓
We are proud to share that Prof. Frank Neese was granted with the 2024 ACS National Award in Inorganic Chemistry!
Thanks for all the amazing work so far. We all know that the source of good work there is quite powerful and there is still more to come 🥳.
In case someone missed: we want to highlight again the paper on "best-practice DFT protocols" by the
@GrimmeLab
@BurschMarkus
@dermewes
(and Andreas Hansen).
It is open access and among the most accessed Angewandte papers of September 2022.
We would like to invite all of you to the next ORCA (online) user's meeting, coming in two weeks.
The details can be found on the ORCA forum -
If you want to present something, you can also send an abstract. There is no free, just drop in 😁.
#compchem
New ORCA multiscale tutorials! We are happy to announce a series of hands-on tutorials about multiscale methods in ORCA.
In this first part, we will teach you how to use our ONIOM scheme to do split calculations using different methods. First one is:
ORCA has been also used in solid-state applications, to help developing new materials capable of storing qbits - with potential use in telecom:
#compchem
#quantum
The STC 2024 has opened its gates! Visit us at our booth and don't miss Bernardo de Souza's (
@bernadsz
) presentation about GOAT-REACT on Tuesday at 16:20. Also check out Jeroen Koopman's (
@jay_koopman
) poster P005 to learn more about ORCA.
#STC2024
#ORCA
#ORCA6
#CompChem
Here is another ONIOM tutorial using ORCA! This time on reactions with the NEB-TS double string method.
A basic example with r2SCAN-3c/XTB and a complicated one from the 2022 Nobel Prize winner
@ListLaboratory
. Comment for more suggestions!😉
#compchem
The well-established DLPNO approximation can also be used with MP2 and double-hybrid DFT within ORCA (
@faccts_orca
).
Check out the recent benchmark study on DLPNO double-hybrids by
@BurschMarkus
, Frank Neese, Stefan Grimme (
@GrimmeLab
) and co-workers.
The new version of the CREST program by Pracht and co-workers is a valuable tool to explore the low-energy molecular chemical space and provides a novel interface to ORCA (
@faccts_orca
)
#compchem
#ORCAqc
QM/MM and excited state simulations with ORCA (
@faccts_orca
) are powerful tools to understand photochemical processes. Check out the recent study by the
@D_A_Pantazis
group on the excitation landscape of the CP43 photosynthetic antenna complex.
#ORCAqc
PostDoc position on "theoretical and computational chemistry" at Univ. of Perugia, Italy, with one of our collaborators:
If you are interested, send your CV and cover letter to giovanni.bistoni
@unipg
.it by November 10th!
#catalysis
#matsci
#compchem
Efficient and clean code is the basis of ORCA (
@faccts_orca
). Check out the new paper by Marvin Lechner, Frank Neese, and co-workers on the improved version of ORCA's automated code generator environment ORCA-AGE II.
#ORCAqc
How good is double-hybrid DFT in predicting reaction barriers? This new paper from
@group_ctm
investigates some functionals and their reliability using ORCA 5.0
Double-hybrids in ORCA can also be used with the DLPNO approximation for further speed up!
Local Energy Decomposition (LED) is a powerful tool within ORCA (
@faccts_orca
) to analyze non-covalent interactions. Check out the recent article by Bistoni, Neese, and co-workers on LED approaches for the quantification of London dispersion.
#ORCAqc
Quantum chemistry can help to predict and interpret Raman spectra as recently demonstrated by Frenette and co-workers who use Grimme's (
@GrimmeLab
) r²SCAN-3c method within the ORCA (
@faccts_orca
) quantum chemistry package.
#compchem
#spectroscopy
And here we are, presenting at
#WATOC2020
! Christoph Riplinger explained how ORCA can be used to generate high quality ensembles and their ECD spectra, which can be done rather efficiently and give predictions quite close to the experiments 🤓
#compchem
Today we highlight another paper featuring the
@BistoniGroup
using Local Energy Decomposition (LED) and multi-layer ONIOM methods within ORCA to study 5′-Nucleoside Oligophosphate-RNase A interactions. Check out our tutorial on LED at
#ORCAqc
#ORCA6
hot off the press📰
@ACSCentSci
, in collaboration with the Raines (
@rtraines
) and Cummins (
@ccclabmit
) groups
@MIT
@ChemistryMIT
, we use a multi-layer approach to model the entire biosystem and probe the ligand binding interactions with LED analysis
#ORCA
xtb version 6.7.0 is now released! Use xtb to acquire density matrix and Raman activities utilizing the novel PTB method, incorporate solvation effects with the CPCM-X model, or conduct periodic force-field calculations with mcGFN-FF.
#xtb
#CompChem
Part of the ORCA and FAccTs teams were having a great time during the
#WATOC2020
!
Thank you for the great talks, enjoyable conversation in between and the opportunities to meet you all again in real-life 3D 😁🐋
Reaction rates beyond transition state theory? The new platform Overreact () from the group of
@CaramoriFinoto
can use ORCA for the QM part and include tunneling, concentration and the whole microkinetics into the models.
#compchem
We have an open PhD position to work on the PhotoCam network, in a joint collaboration between FACCTs and F. Neese + D. Pantazis from the MPI KOFO.
If you are interested in excited states and multiscale methods, please follow the link below!
#compchem
We had a great time at
@EuChemS_Congres
in beautiful Dublin! Many thanks to all the amazing people who visited our booth and attended our talks. We hope to meet you all again soon!
#ECC9
#ORCAqc
Machine learning models require reliable training data and ORCA (
@faccts_orca
) is the ideal tool to generate large amounts of it. Check out the paper by Greb and colleagues, who used ORCA to predict fluoride ion affinities with their FIA-GNN model.
ORCA (
@faccts_orca
) helps to design new materials as demonstrated by Neese, Schnick, and co-workers who used embedded cluster models, excited states dynamics, and Local Energy Decomposition to predict a new narrow band red phosphor.
#ORCAqc
#compchem
ORCA (
@faccts_orca
) is a great tool to investigate structure-property relationships. Check out the great work of the Pantazis (
@D_A_Pantazis
) group using ORCA to correlate the structure of Ascorbate Peroxidase Compound II with its spectroscopic properties.
#ORCAqc
#CompChem
Dr. Zikuan Wang and Prof. Frank Neese are developing a new semi-empirical method!
The NOTCH has only 8 semi-empirical parameters and behaves as good as or even better than most contenders out there. Check out the latest paper about it:
#compchem
ORCA (
@faccts_orca
) &
@OrcaQuantumChem
) offers a wide range of quantum chemical spectroscopy methods that can help solve complex chemical challenges. Learn more about them in our tutorials and our brand new online manual.
#ORCAqc
Finally our paper is out. Very seldom you get an exercise in reactivity, electrochemistry and photochemistry all in the same project.
@OrcaQuantumChem
@faccts_orca
Solar Light CO2 Photoreduction...
Are you into X-Ray spectroscopy? ORCA is the tool to investigate and predict spectra.
You can get much more than bare numbers, you can get insights 🧐. Check out this new JACS cover using it:
#compchem
#xray
#synchrotron
@BlaiseGoog
@cutsail_lab
It's great to see how ORCA (
@faccts_orca
) enables the investigation complex reaction mechanisms. The robust TS search with the nudged elastic band (NEB) method in ORCA is particularly helpful here. Check out the NEB tutorial on our homepage:
#CompChem
Benchmarking quantum chemical methods is the key to assess their quality. ORCA (
@faccts_orca
) enables the generation of very accurate references and the efficient benchmarking of many methods as demonstrated for the new MME55 benchmark set by the
@lgoer_compchem
lab.
#CompChem
Very proud of
@dawappett
's massive paper on the development of the new MME55 set for metalloenzyme reactions incl. a comprehensive benchmark analysis of DFT methods.
#compchem
#dft
#ozchem
Save the date to meet our team at the
@EuChemS_Congres
2024 in Dublin! Discover our services and software solutions including the innovative ORCA (
@faccts_orca
) quantum chemistry software package and our smart workflow driver WEASEL.
We hope to see many of you in Dublin!
#ECC9
The summer school of the MPI CEC is the ideal opportunity to learn more about how to use ORCA (
@faccts_orca
) in the field of quantum chemical spectroscopy of transition metal complexes. Until then, check out our ORCA tutorials ()
#compchem
#spectroscopy
🔔 We are organising a Summer School again 🔔
SUMMER SCHOOL
Spectroscopy and Electronic Structure of Transition Metal Complexes
📆 September 22-28, 2024
Now open for application!
Join us!
👇
For all you out there interested in
#compchem
and solid state physics, there will be an online event on "Advanced Research in Quantum Chemistry and Solid State Physics with ORCA,
@CP2Kproject
, TRAVIS, and CP-PAW" on Apr. 7-8.
Registrations at:
Large benchmark sets require an efficient quantum chemistry software like ORCA (
@FACCTs_ORCA
&
@OrcaQuantumChem
) both to generate them and to test new methods. With ORCA 6, many tasks became even faster. Try it out, it's completely free for academic use!
#ORCAqc
#ORCA6
#CompChem
Investigating reaction mechanisms? Better do confanal! Here is why: No worries, our protocol makes it a routine calculation!
Into benchmarking? With 16k DFT-optimized structures, we got you Covered!
#OnTheCover
@JCIM_JCTC
#CompChem
Thx 4 help:
@GrimmeLab
ORCA (
@faccts_orca
) can help with the exploration of chemical reaction networks. Check out the recent article by the group of Markus Reiher on a human-machine interface for automatic CRN exploration
#ORCAqc
#compchem
#reactionnetworks
Need a cheap-yet-accurate method to include or understand noncovalent interaction energies?
Check out the HFLD method from
@ahmetaltunfatih
, Giovanni Bistoni and Frank Neese, now featured as a cover from
@JCIM_JCTC
.
#compchem
A reliable data set is the foundation of any machine learning model and ORCA (
@faccts_orca
) is the perfect tool to generate high quality training data. The
@GloriusGroup
has utilized ORCA for their new EnTdecker platform, check it out!
#ORCAqc
#ML
We are proud to announce Prof. Benjamin List
@ListLaboratory
, Nobel Prize of 2021 and a lead expert on catalysis, as a new member of our scientific advisory board.
Welcome Prof. List, we hope together we can push the boundaries of modern chemistry!
Complete-PNO-space extrapolation can help to compute even more accurate DLPNO-CCSD(T) data at reduced cost within ORCA (
@faccts_orca
). Check out the recent paper on CPS extrapolated references for enzymatically catalyzed reaction by the
@lgoer_compchem
lab.
#compchem
#dlpnoccsdt
Congratulations to
@dawappett
on her latest paper on DLPNO-CCSD(T1) extrapolation techniques for enzyme models and their impact on DFT benchmarking, which got published in
@JPhysChem
A in the K. Raghavachari Festshrift.
#compchem
#ozchem
If you are interested in phosphorescence, spin-orbit coupling and related, here is an interesting paper on room temperature phosphorescent materials on
@J_A_C_S
.
It is using ORCA to simulate the excited states and spin-orbit coupling matrix elements from TD-DFT!
#compchem
We will visit the 8th International Conference on vibrational Optical Activity (
@MertenLab
) at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany! Join us at our booth to learn more about our software solutions including the brand-new ORCA 6 (
@faccts_orca
& MPI KoFo).
#ORCAqc
#VOA8
#compchem
Prof. Frank Neese and a team from
@RiverLane_io
discuss electron correlation on JCTC - a topic of extreme relevance for the future of quantum computers and their use in quantum chemistry.
We've made great progress in accurate predictions for life-science applications. Christoph Riplinger will be showcasing recent projects with our partners at the QM in Pharma this September in London.
Register here:
#ORCAqc
#compchem
#CADD
#drugdiscovery
Did you always wanted to talk (complain?) to the developers of your favorite code? Know how other people are using it?
The 8th ORCA user's meeting starts tomorrow!🤓
Time for user's to present great work, and an opportunity for engagement/discussion. Links on the ORCA forum.
We are happy to present our newest publication in
@ScienceMagazine
about safer aryldiazonium chemistry!
Nitrate is reduced to generate aryldiazoniums as fleeting intermediates for the direct conversion of anilines and aminoheterocycles to arylhalides.
We are thrilled to announce the !AI.QU. project on bridging AI & QUantum mechanics 🤖🖥️ for rapid, accurate, and scalable in silico predictions, welcoming our first partners Nong Artrith
@UniUtrecht
@UUBeta
&
@faccts_orca
!AI.QU. is funded by
@Bayer
's Life Science Collaboration
Here is a nice Science paper on [Pn]+ cations, their synthesis and structures from the
@WeigandGroup
.
ORCA's DLPNO-CCSD(T) is an untrained method that can compute accurate energies for even the most unusual structures - such as these!
#compchem
Diatomic P-N molecule with a triple bond in solution? The
@ccclabmit
developed a new precursor for the elusive phosphorus mononitride.
Some reaction mechanisms involved were studied using ORCA and the results are published at
@NatureChemistry
What an impressive number of data and many of them were computed with ORCA (
@faccts_orca
). It's amazing what efficient quantum chemistry codes can make possible!
Great work by Kate Huddleston
@khuddzu
to put all of this together. Over 47 million single point calculations at different levels of theory, for organic molecules containing C,H,N,O,S,F and Cl.
@gpusciguy
@Zubatyuk
@olexandr
@NachoPickering
Find it at:
A stable triradical molecule! Three unpaired electrons hanging around with a halftime of up to 6h 😁.
@J_A_C_S
@unlchemistry
@UNLincoln
Using ORCA to investigate the electronic structure - which is not trivial at all.
The Analytica 2024 has opened its gates! We look forward to meeting many of you at our booth 324-6 in hall A3.
Also don't miss our talks:
Tuesday, 09.04., 16:30 (Forum Biotech)
Thursday, 11.04., 15:30 (Forum Laboratory & Analysis)
#analytica2024
#ORCAqc
Determining H-atom positions in crystals can be hard if you can't afford neutron diffraction right?
This new idea from
@EJShotton
and
@SLMSchroeder
use ORCA to combine DFT and NEXAFS (X-ray) experiments and localize our tiny little friends.
#compchem
Prediction of solid-state
#NMR
using one of ORCA's new multiscale methods: the Crystal QM/MM.
The final correlation between experiment and theory was quite good, and the authors go as far as using DLPNO + double-hybrid DFT to calculate the NMR shiledings!
#compchem
We have been working together with
@RiverLane_io
in hybrid methods to allow for
#compchem
in classical +
#QuantumComputing
.
Here goes a explanatory thread, together with a link for the arXived paper!
Check out our latest research with Astex and
@faccts_orca
!: .
TL;DR we present an embedding method for quantum mechanical calculations done on a quantum computer, and apply it to two pharma-relevant proof-of-concept cases.
🧵👇
Prediction of transition metal redox potentials in water with an average accuracy of .13 V using DLPNO-CCSD(T) + multilevel for the solvation sphere!
Microsolvation at its finest 🌊, and all done using ORCA.
We are very excited to be able to collaborate with the development of new industry-oriented Artificial Intelligence!
Together with
@Bayer
and N. Artrith from the
@UniUtrecht
, we are now part of the !AI.QU project, which envisions filling that gap between
#AI
and
#compchem
.
We are thrilled to announce the !AI.QU. project on bridging AI & QUantum mechanics 🤖🖥️ for rapid, accurate, and scalable in silico predictions, welcoming our first partners Nong Artrith
@UniUtrecht
@UUBeta
&
@faccts_orca
!AI.QU. is funded by
@Bayer
's Life Science Collaboration
There is an open Post Doc position to work with multireference methods for spectroscopy at the MPI-KOFO, in the group led by Dr. Benjamin Helmich-Paris.
Check it out if you are excited about excited states 🤓
#compchem
📢For all enthusiasts of quantum chemistry (QM): The 18th European Summer school in QM will take place from September 11 to September 24 2022!
Registration opens Tuesday March 22, 2022 at 9:00 (am) CET. For more info see the following link⬇️
@RFCTheo
This work was also made possible by the new Dynamic Polarizabilities feature in ORCA 6 implemented by Benjamin Helmich-Paris (MPI Kofo) and Miquel Garcia Ratés (
@faccts_orca
).