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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Apr 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Chem Theory Comput. 2008;4(12):2067–2084. doi: 10.1021/ct800330d

Table 4.

The different performances for SCC-DFTB including on-site third-order terms for non-phosphorus compounds and phosphate species.a

SCC-DFTBb
Molecules G3B3
2nd-order 3rd-order Mix-optimized 3rd-order

Non-phosphorus
water 398.4 26.5 −5.4 (1.3) 1.0 [−13.9]
methanol 392.6 4.5 −6.3 (−4.0) −8.3 [−13.1]
ethanol 388.3 8.7 −2.8 (−0.5) −4.3 [−9.3]
propanol 387.6 7.9 −3.5 (−1.1) −4.8 [−9.8]
2-propanol 385.6 11.5 −0.5 (1.8) −1.4 [−6.5]
formic acid 351.2 11.9 3.1 (4.2) −0.9 [−6.8]
acetic acid 355.1 11.3 1.6 (2.9) −2.8 [−8.4]
propanoic acid 354.5 11.2 1.9 (3.1) −2.5 [−8.0]
phenol 356.7 5.5 0.2 (1.1) −2.6 [−5.8]
p-methylphenol 357.9 4.6 −0.4 (0.4) −3.1 [−6.2]
p-nitrophenol 334.6 0.9 −5.4 (−4.4) −5.8 [−12.0]
CH2(OH)2 374.8 11.7 1.3 (3.4) −4.7 [−10.1]
CH2(OH)(OCH3) 377.2 5.1 −1.1 (0.0) −3.4 [−8.4]
CH(OH)3 361.9 18.0 3.7 (5.9) −1.8 [−7.2]
CH(OCH3)2OH 365.7 9.5 2.5 (3.6) −0.4 [−5.7]

Error Analysis

    MAXE 26.5 −6.3 (5.9) −8.3 [−13.9]
    RMSE 11.6 3.2 (3.0) 3.8 [9.1]
    MUE 9.9 2.6 (2.5) 3.2 [8.7]
    MSE 9.9 −0.7 (1.2) −3.1 [−8.7]

Phosphate

H3PO4 334.0 27.3 13.7 8.5 [1.6]
H2PO4 463.6 36.7 15.2 8.7 [3.7]
DMPH 336.2 19.9 9.7 5.0 [1.7]
MMP 336.7 22.2 10.3 5.2 [−0.1]
MMP 460.5 31.7 14.2 10.1 [6.1]
PH3OH 201.6 1.6 −2.0 −2.0 [−3.0]
PH2OHOH 201.6 7.4 1.6 1.6 [−1.0]
PHOHOHOH 200.8 14.7 6.9 6.5 [3.0]
PH2(OH)=O 336.6 13.2 4.9 0.1 [−3.6]
PH(OH)(OH)=O 334.7 20.9 9.9 4.7 [−0.8]

Error Analysis

    MAXE 36.7 15.2 10.1 [6.1]
    RMSE 22.1 10.0 6.1 [3.0]
    MUE 19.6 8.8 5.2 [2.5]
    MSE 19.6 8.4 4.8 [0.8]
a)

The PA values and errors (in kcal/mol) are defined in the same manner as in Table 3.

b)

See Table 1 for the notations used to label different SCC−DFTB approaches. The values in parentheses are obtained using a third-order approach optimized in Ref. 59 based on 32 non-phosphorus compounds. For the “Mix-optimized 3rd-order” set, both non-phosphorus and phosphate molecules (shown in italics) are included to attempt to optimize a set of third-order parameters that work for both classes of molecules, although the results are not satisfying (see text). The numbers in bracket are based on the phosphate hydrolysis reaction parameter set (SCC−DFTBPR).