#CASSCF
We analyzed the strong red/NIR Q-bands in deprotonated free-base corroles and reduced copper corroles, involving core-to-aryl transitions, using CASSCF/NEVPT2 methods with large-ish active spaces. We included the metal 3d, the corrole Gouterman and the meso-aryl orbitals in the active spaces. 2/n
November 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
These findings are interfaced to CASSCF and BS DFT calculations, in addition to sc-XRD and Mössbauer, which all point to redox events significantly delocalized onto the FeNAr unit.
November 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Cr(I)-Cr(I) Terphenyl Bridged Complexes: A Broken-Symmetry DFT and Multideterminant CASSCF/NEVPT2 Handshake
Cr(I)-Cr(I) Terphenyl Bridged Complexes: A Broken-Symmetry DFT and Multideterminant CASSCF/NEVPT2 Handshake - PubMed
In this article, a Cr<sup>I</sup>-Cr<sup>I</sup>-based system stabilized by two monovalent terphenyl ligands Ar'CrCrAr' (Ar' = C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>2</sub>-2,6-(C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>3</sub>-2,6-Pr<sub>2</sub>...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Don't miss the next Q-Chem webinar this Friday! Xinchun Wu will be discussing the exciting work she did at Q-Chem this past summer, including constrained CASSCF for studying nonadiabatic systems and tight-binding calculation features. Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
#Efeméride La matemática y especialista en ciencias de la computación Charlotte Froese Fischer (1929-2024) nació un 21 de septiembre.
Desarrolló e implementó el método CASSCF de química computacional.
Charlotte Froese Fischer, matemática - Mujeres con ciencia
Charlotte Froese Fischer. Ciencias de la computación. Matemáticas. Química computacional. Método de campo autoconsistente multiconfiguracional CASSCF.
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September 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Magnetic measurements revealed the single-ion magnet behavior of both complexes, with complex 1 exhibiting an energy barrier (Ueff) of 34.77 K and a relaxation time (τ0) of 8.07 × 10-7 s. These findings were further supported by CASSCF-based ab initio calculations.
September 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Tian Qiu, Joseph E. Subotnik: Fast Methods For Multisite Charge Transfer Processes I: Constrained, State Averaged CASSCF(1,M) and CASSCF(2M-1,M) Simulations https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21136 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21136 https://arxiv.org/html/2508.21136
September 1, 2025 at 6:47 AM
New work is out!
We implemented linear response CASSCF in CFour, powered by the open-source Diaglib solver: we are now able to access absorption spectra & frequency-dependent properties on standard hardware.

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#compchem #molecolab #casscf @tommasonottoli.bsky.social
An Efficient and Robust Implementation of CASSCF Linear Response Theory
We present a robust and efficient implementation of linear response theory for a Complete Active Space─Self-Consistent Field wave function. Our approach relies on the Cholesky Decomposition of the two-electron integrals, enabling the routine treatment of large molecular systems on standard hardware. It allows for the computation of both absorption energies and transition properties, as well as frequency-dependent molecular response functions. For both classes of properties, numerically stable and efficient algorithms have been developed. The capabilities of our implementation are demonstrated through the calculation of absorption spectra and molecular response properties of large systems with extended basis sets.
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August 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Hot off the press: “A Two-Level Preconditioner for the CASSCF Linear-Response Equations” by our scientific advisor Benjamin Helmich-Paris (@orca-qc-official.bsky.social). Its already part of ORCA 6.1, check it out!

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#ORCA #ORCAqc #CompChem #QuantumChem #TheoChem #CASSCF
A Two-Level Preconditioner for the CASSCF Linear-Response Equations
We present an efficient two-level strategy to accelerate the solution of the CASSCF linear-response eigenvalue problem using a customized Davidson algorithm. By identifying a subset of important response-vector components─the so-called P space─we compute and diagonalize full Hessian and metric matrix elements while treating the remaining Q-space components with a diagonal approximation. This approach decouples the orbital and configuration responses, enabling independent preconditioning of each component. Computational cost is further reduced through the resolution-of-the-identity approximation. We demonstrate significant performance gains across a diverse set of molecules, achieving speedups of up to 2.05 compared to the standard diagonal preconditioning. The largest efficiency gains are observed for MCTDA calculations involving many excited states and relatively small response-vector lengths. The two-level strategy is available in ORCA 6.1 and paves the way for extensions to dynamic polarizabilities, which require solving large-scale linear equations, as well as to time-dependent density functional theory and CI singles.
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August 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Developing new comp chem practicals for the upcoming semester. So happy I was able to sneak in teaching the students CASSCF :)
August 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Check out the recent paper on Excited-state methods based on state-averaged long-range CASSCF short-range DFT by Benjamin Helmich-Paris et al. And how to use it in ORCA 6.1.

doi.org/10.1039/D5CP...

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#ORCAqc #CompChem #QuantumChem #ChemSky #DFT
Excited-state methods based on state-averaged long-range CASSCF short-range DFT
In the present work we propose two distinct state-averaging (SA)-based methodologies for the calculation of excited states, in conjunction with the long-range complete active space self-consistent fie...
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August 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
An old article in Theoretical Organic Photochemistry. The multistate reaction manifold includes optimized and characterized conical intersections and intersystem crossings.

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#conicalintersection #quantum #chemistry #CASSCF #CASPT2 #MOLCAS #compchem #theochem #chemsky
Impacts of hydroxylation on the photophysics of chalcones: insights into the relation between the chemical composition and the electronic structure
A combined theoretical/experimental study of the photoreactivity of two flavylium-derived chalcones, 2,4,4′-trihydroxychalcone and 2,4′-dihydroxychalcone, at the multiconfigurational wavefunction leve...
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July 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This is inverse hypercorrole behaviour, as described by Ghosh and colleagues in several publications. We conducted DFT and CASSCF calculations on the different species and showed that the active space needs to be expanded with the aryl orbitals to correctly describe these transitions.
June 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
New work in anionic #corroles with a healthy dose of #casscf calculations. Thx
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Neutral and Anionic Free-base and Copper Corroles: Structural, spectroscopic and computational analysis and hypercorrole features | ChemRxiv - doi.org/10.26434/che...
Neutral and Anionic Free-base and Copper Corroles: Structural, spectroscopic and computational analysis and hypercorrole features
We report the synthesis, crystal structure, spectroscopic and computational electronic structural characterization of two copper corroles, [Cu(5,15-bis(4-methylcarboxyphenyl)-10-(2-methylcarboxyphenyl...
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June 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
robustness of our approach on a prototypical example of fully ML-driven FSSH simulations of fulvene targeting the SA-2-CASSCF(6,6) electronic structure level. This ML-FSSH dynamics leads to an accurate description of $S_1$ decay while reducing error [4/5 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23344v1]
May 30, 2025 at 6:12 AM
and simulate the subsequent ultrafast nonadiabatic dynamics by propagating surface-hopping trajectories using SA(4|4)-CASSCF(6,4)-level electronic structure calculations with a modified ANO-R1 basis set. Two simulations are run: one with singlet [2/5 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20055v1]
May 27, 2025 at 6:14 AM
UV-photoelectron spectroscopy and MS-CASPT2/CASSCF study of the thermolysis of azidoethyl-methyl sulfide: Characterization and mechanism of the formation of S-methyl-N-sulfenylethanimine
UV-photoelectron spectroscopy and MS-CASPT2/CASSCF study of the thermolysis of azidoethyl-methyl sulfide: Characterization and mechanism of the formation of S-methyl-N-sulfenylethanimine - PubMed
The thermal decomposition of azidoethyl methyl sulfide was studied by real-time UV-photoelectron spectroscopy (UV-PES) at temperatures ranging from 773 to 1023 K. Different ionization energies were obtained...
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May 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
investigation for two prototypical molecular qubits based on vanadyl and copper tetra-phenyl porphyrins. State-average CASSCF and NEVPT2 calculations have been employed with four different active spaces of growing complexity to account for the d-d, [2/5 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20778v1]
April 30, 2025 at 6:20 AM
They... turned... off... the... f***ing... cluster.

At the end of my giant CASSCF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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April 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
increasing size up to 10 spatial orbitals (20 spin orbitals or qubits) are computed with VQE and were found to agree with the classical complete active self-consistent field or CASSCF method to within 1-4 kcal/mol. We evaluate relevant multi-reference [4/7 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08494v1]
April 14, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Complete Active Space Self-Consistent Field (CASSCF) approach to polaritonic systems. The method is tested on benchmark multireference problems and applied to investigate field-induced effects on the electronic structure of well-known [3/4 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16417v1]
March 21, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Riccardo Alessandro, Henrik Koch, Enrico Ronca: A Complete Active Space Self-Consistent Field (CASSCF) approach for molecules in QED environments https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.16417 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.16417 https://arxiv.org/html/2503.16417
March 21, 2025 at 6:12 AM
In 2023, we analyzed DMRG-CASSCF wave functions to derive reliable NO oxidation states in {FeNO}6-8 porphyrin complexes. Key conclusion: there’s little evidence for NO+ descriptions. doi.org/10.1021/acs....
March 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
dynamic correlation on top of CASSCF using the second-order $n$-electron valence perturbation theory (NEVPT2) in the DMET framework, abbreviated as DMET+NEVPT2, and benchmark the accuracy of this approach to molecular magnetic anisotropy in a set of [5/8 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06483v1]
March 11, 2025 at 6:20 AM
high-level MC-WFT methods like CASSCF-SO, which is particularly promising to SIMs. As a continuation of our previous work on DMET+CASSCF for $3d$ SIMs (Ai, Sun, and Jiang, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2022, 13, 10627), we extend the methodology by considering [4/8 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06483v1]
March 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM