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. 2020 May 6;16(6):3989–4001. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00257

Table 2. Number of Macroiterations to Converge the Molecular Geometry Optimization of the Molecular Structures of the Baker-TS Test Suite Using Conventional RS-RFO and RVO Supported by GEKa.

  this work
ref (20)b
RVO vs GPR
reaction RS-RFO RVO rmsd L-BFGS GPR rmsd
1: HCN ⇌ HNC 12 13 0.000 22 18 0.000
2: HCCH ⇌ CCH2 13 12 0.000 24 20 0.000
3: H2CO ⇌ H2 + CO* 32 36 0.985 59 103 0.557
4: CH3O ⇌ CH2OH 7 7 0.000 18 15 0.000
5: ring opening cyclopropyl* 24 11 0.842 42 37 0.842
6: ring opening bicyclo[1.1.0]butane (TS 1) 19 13 0.000 30 28 0.001
7: ring opening bicyclo[1.1.0]butane (TS 2) 23 13 0.000 54 48 0.001
8: 1,2-migration β-(formyloxy)ethyl 36 28 0.001 87 93 0.005
9: butadiene + ethylene ⇌ cyclohexenec* 116 75 0.009 89 122 1.005
10: s-tetrazine ⇌ 2HCN + N2 9 7 0.000 15 21 0.000
11: trans-butadiene ⇌ cis-butadiene 9 6 0.000 32 30 0.001
12: CH3CH3 ⇌ CH2CH2 + H2 11 9 0.000 24 16 0.000
13: CH3CH2F ⇌ CH2CH2 + HF 11 7 0.000 20 15 0.001
14: vinyl alcohol ⇌ acetaldehyde 15 13 0.000 19 26 0.001
15: HCOCl ⇌ HCl + CO 10 8 0.000 12 12 0.000
16: H2O + PO3 ⇌ H2PO4 32 28 0.002 64 74 0.001
17: CH2CHCH2–O–CHCH2 ⇌ CH2CHCH2CH2CHO 26 21 0.002 98 73 0.008
18: SiH2 + CH3CH3 ⇌ SiH3CH2CH3 17 17 0.001 44 38 0.008
19: HNCCS ⇌ HNC + CS 17 13 0.000 25 19 0.001
20: HCONH3+ ⇌ NH4+ + CO 13 9 0.000 21 19 0.000
21: rotational TS in acrolein 21 12 0.000 49 47 0.001
22: HCONHOH ⇌ HCOHNHO 11 9 0.000 23 20 0.000
23: HNC + H2 ⇌ H2CNH 15 10 0.000 21 18 0.000
24: H2CNH ⇌ HCNH2 16 13 0.000 25 18 0.000
25: HCNH2 ⇌ HCN + H2* 48 42 0.482 254 30 1.197
a

The root mean square displacement (rmsd, in Å) between the final structures is shown in the third numerical column. As a reference the GPR and L-BFGS results of Denzel and Kästner, using DFT, are listed. Finally, the rmsd between the RVO and GPR optimized structures is presented. Highlighted in bold are cases where the difference between the first two columns is larger than 1 iteration. An asterisk marks cases where RVO clearly converges to a different local minimum from RS-RFO and/or GPR.

b

See Table S2 in ref (20).

c

RS-RFO and RVO optimizations performed with symmetry constrained to Cs.