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acs.chemrev.1c00107.pdf
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Combining Machine Learning and Computational Chemistry for Predictive Insights Into Chemical Systems - Chem. Rev. 2021, 121, 16, 9816–9872
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ORCA 5.0.4 was released!
This is a bugfix release, meaning that there are no new features until ORCA 6 is released sometime this year.
ORCA 5.0.4 addresses some quite severe bugs affecting the D4 dispersion correction, the wB97M functional, CASSCF and more. For now Linux binaries are available, with MacOS and Windows coming shortly.

https://orcaforum.kofo.mpg.de/app.php/dlext/?cat=21
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OPEN ACCESS - Real-time observation of the charge transfer to solvent dynamics

Intermolecular electron-transfer reactions have a crucial role in biology, solution chemistry and electrochemistry. The first step of such reactions is the expulsion of the electron to the solvent, whose mechanism is determined by the structure and dynamical response of the latter. Here we visualize the electron transfer to water using ultrafast fluorescence spectroscopy with polychromatic detection from the ultraviolet to the visible region, upon photo-excitation of the so-called charge transfer to solvent states of aqueous iodide. The initial emission is short lived (~60 fs) and it relaxes to a broad distribution of lower-energy charge transfer to solvent states upon rearrangement of the solvent cage. This distribution reflects the inhomogeneous character of the solvent cage around iodide. Electron ejection occurs from the relaxed charge transfer to solvent states with lifetimes of 100–400 fs that increase with decreasing emission energy.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3119
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s10698-023-09469-8.pdf
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Interpreting the bonding of B2H6 and the nature of the 3-center-2-electron bond: decisive test of theory of valency
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D. Hartree published his seminal paper about the self-consistent field in 1928. The paper was not received well and Hartree was heavily criticized for it.
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That is true! Nobody was impressed.
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That is false. The paper was groundbreaking!
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Who is D. Hartree? 🤔
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