EMSL Arrows - Evolution of Chemical and Materials Computation

Overview

We would like thank the DOD SERDP program and the DOE OS OBER EMSL project for providing support that helped with the initial development of EMSL Arrows.

* EMSL Arrows API*

Tutorial on YouTube (mobile devices)

Click here to try out Arrows by sending it an email

Are you just learning NWChem and would like to have an easy way to generate input decks, check your output decks against a large database of calculations, perform simple thermochemistry calculations, calculate the NMR and IR spectra of modest size molecule, or just try out NWChem before installing it? EMSL Arrows scientific service can help. A Web API to EMSL Arrows is now available for Alpha testing. Click on this link.

For more information contact Eric Bylaska (eric.bylaska@pnnl.gov)

* EMSL Arrows API*

The difficulty of simulating the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of new materials is convoluted by the sensitivity of the processes at the macroscopic scale to the atomic scale; the unusual and unexpected bonding behaviors of the materials; the complex extreme temperature and pressure environments likely to be encountered; and the requirements that simulations be as parameter free as possible and extremely reliable. The tools of quantum chemistry and statistical mechanics combined with advanced parallel packages such as NWChem have proved to be very effective and productive. Not surprisingly, programs that implement these types of tools make up a large fraction of DOE OS supercomputer cycles. Despite these hugely successful theoretical developments, reliable calculations of this type require considerable computational effort and often the use of codes with difficult input decks.

The NWChem molecular modeling software implements a robust and diverse set of molecular theories that can estimate the thermodynamics and kinetics of molecules and materials. It arguably has the most capabilities of any molecular modeling code today. The problem with NWChem and other molecular modeling codes is that:

• Molecular modeling software is extremely complex, contains millions of lines of code, and takes a long time to set up and to learn how to use.
• Even the most basic input for molecular modeling software requires the use of other software to generate it.
• Because of this complexity people unnaturally identify with codes and molecular theories, and they are hesitant to learn new codes and new molecular simulation techniques.

The goal of this project is to provide EMSL users and DOE scientists and engineers with an open-source computational chemistry and materials tool called EMSL Arrows. EMSL Arrows is a software package that combines NWChem, SQL and NOSQL databases, and email (in the future also social networks, e.g. Twitter, Tumblr) that simplifies molecular and materials modeling and makes these modeling capabilities easier to use and more accessible to many scientists and engineers.

EMSL Arrows is very simple to use. The user just emails chemical reactions to arrows@emsl.pnnl.gov and then an email is sent back with thermodynamic, reaction pathway (kinetic), spectroscopy, and other results.

EMSL Arrows parses the email and then searches the database for the compounds in the reactions. If a compound isn’t there, an NWChem calculation is setup and submitted to calculate it. Once the calculation is finished the results are entered into the database and then results are emailed back. This whole process is completely automated. To enter different calculation types (e.g. use pspw theory, or pbe0 exchange correlation functional) the SMILES is appended with keyword{options} tags. An example email is as follows:

To: arrows@emsl.pnnl.gov
  
Subject: Calculate isodesmic reactions  

Arrows::   
Reaction: C(Cl)(Cl)(Cl)O + C  --> C(Cl)(Cl)Cl + CO :Reaction  
Reaction: C(Cl)(Cl)(Cl)O + C  --> C(Cl)(Cl)Cl + CO ~ theory{pspw} :Reaction  
Reaction:                        C(Cl)(Cl)(Cl)S + C  --> C(Cl)(Cl)Cl + CS :Reaction  
Reaction:   C(Cl)(Cl)(Cl)S + C  --> C(Cl)(Cl)Cl + CS ~ theory{pm3} :Reaction  
Reaction: TNT + 3 benzene --> toluene + 3 nitrobenzene ~ xc{pbe} :Reaction  
::Arrows

The results returned by EMSL Arrows are a combination of text and graphical output.

Currently EMSL Arrows is designed to calculate the following for all NWChem theories:

• Reaction thermodynamics for molecular systems
• Reaction paths for molecular systems
• UV-vis, IR, Raman spectra for molecular systems, phonon spectra for materials systems
• NMR spectra for molecular and materials systems
• EXAFS spectra for molecular and materials systems
• Energetics, structures, and band structures of crystals using the Crystal Open Database (COD ) numbers
• A variety of datafiles can be returned including XYZ files, CIF files, NWChem output files

We envision that as Arrows evolves it will be part of future closed cycles of chemical and materials discovery that requires integrated computational and experimental tools combined with materials synthesis.

Try out EMSL Arrows by sending the following simple emails to arrows@emsl.pnnl.gov

Returns b3lyp/6-311++G(2d,2p) results for the cinnamon flavored molecule. Click here to run this example.

---------------- mailto: arrows@emsl.pnnl.gov -----------------------  
Arrows::  

molecule: Cinnamaldehyde :molecule  

::Arrows

Using MP2 to calculate the reaction energy of a hydrolysis reaction for TNT. Click here to run this example.

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Arrows::  
   
Reaction: cid=8376 + hydroxide --> O=N(=O)c1cc(O)c(c(c1)N(=O)=O)C + nitrite ~ theory{mp2} :Reaction  

::Arrows

Examples of isodesmic reaction Click here to to run this example.

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Arrows::  

Reaction: TNT + 3 benzene --> toluene + 3 nitrobenzene  ~ theory{mp2} :Reaction   
Reaction: C(Cl)(Cl)(Cl)O + C  --> C(Cl)(Cl)Cl + CO :Reaction  
Reaction: C(Cl)(Cl)(Cl)O + C  --> C(Cl)(Cl)Cl + CO ~ xc{pbe} :Reaction  
Reaction: C(Cl)(Cl)(Cl)O + C  --> C(Cl)(Cl)Cl + CO ~ theory{pspw} :Reaction  

::Arrows

Examples of reaction prediction capabilities in Arrows. Click here to to run this example.

---------------- mailto: arrows@emsl.pnnl.gov -----------------------  
Arrows::  

Predict: 2 methane   :Predict  

::Arrows

Click here to to run this example.

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Arrows::  

Predict: TNT + hydroxide   :Predict  

::Arrows

Fetch an NWChem output deck from Arrows. Click here to to run this example.

---------------- mailto: arrows@emsl.pnnl.gov -----------------------  
Arrows::  

nwoutput: caffeine :nwoutput  

::Arrows

Try out the following web API links (Now Available for Alpha Testing)

EMSL Arrows API v1.0

Introduction to ESMILES - How to Change Calculation Theories

The combined string, Molecule_Input keyword1{option1} keyword2{option2} keywordN{optionN}, is called an extended smiles or esmiles for short. The Molecule_Input can be specified using a variety of formats including a SMILES string, common names, iupac, kegg numbers, cas, pubchem ids, chemspider ids, and InChI strings. The keyword{option} tags are used to enter different calculation types for a molecule, e.g. use pspw theory, ccsd(t), or pbe0 exchange correlation functional.

The following are examples of esmiles strings:

Plane-Wave DFT calculation using LDA and a cutoff energy=30.0 Ry

c1ccccc1 theory{pspw} xc{lda} basis{30.0 Ry}

MP2 calculation using 6-31G* basis set

CCO theory{mp2} basis{6-31G*}

CCSD(T) calculation of ethanol

CCO theory{ccsd(t)} basis{6-31G*}

Mopac PM3 calculation of caffeine

Caffeine theory{pm3}

Aperiodic plane-wave DFT calculation of triplet cabon tetrachloride

C(Cl)(Cl)(Cl)Cl mult{3} theory{pspw4}  

Gas-phase M06-2x/6-31+G* calculation of benzene

benzene theory{dft} xc{m06-2x} solvation_type{none}

Equivalent ESMILES for CCSD(T)/6-31G* calculation of methanol

methyl alcohol theory{ccsd(t)} basis{6-31G*}  
kegg=D02309 theory{ccsd(t)} basis{6-31G*}  
cas=67-56-1 theory{ccsd(t)} basis{6-31G*}  
cid=887 theory{ccsd(t)} basis{6-31G*}  
csid=864 theory{ccsd(t)} basis{6-31G*}  
InChI=1S/CH4O/c1-2/h2H,1H3 theory{ccsd(t)} basis{6-31G*}  

The available keywords in and esmiles string are: theory, theory_property, theory_base, basis, basis_property, basis_base, xc, xc_property, xc_base, solvation_type, charge, mult, xyzdata, geometry_generation, and calculation_type.

ESMILES Options - theory{}, theory_property{} and theory_base{}

The default theory used is theory{dft}. The following theories are available:

-       dft        -- NWChem Gaussian DFT  
-       pspw   -- NWChem Plane-Wave DFT (periodic boundary conditions, Γ point)  
-       pspw4 -- NWChem Plane-Wave DFT (aperiodic boundary conditions)  
-       mp2      -- NWChem MP2 program  
-       ccsd(t)  -- NWChem CCSD(T)  
-       pm3      -- Mopac7 PM3  
-       am1      -- Mopac7 AM1  
-       mindo   -- Mopac7 MINDO  
-       mindo3 -- Mopac7 MINDO3

The theory_property{} is an optional keyword used to specify the theory used in an nmr calculation, and theory_base{} is an optional keyword used to specify the theory of the base calculation for an MP2 or CCSD(T) calculation. By default the theory_property and theory_base are defined to be the same as theory{}.

ESMILES Options - basis{}, basis_property{} and basis_base{}

The default basis used is 6-311++G(2d,2p) for the Gaussian DFT, MP2 and CCSD(T) programs. For plane-wave DFT the default basis or cutoff energy is defined to by 50.0 Hartrees or 100.0 Ry.

For Gaussian basis sets any basis set recognized by NWChem can be used, e.g.

CCO basis{6-31G*}

Other common basis sets can be used such as cc-pvdz, 6-311G, 3-21G, 6-31+G*.

For plane-wave basis sets the cutoff energy can changed by just entering the number in Hartrees or Rydbergs

CCO theory{pspw] basis{50.0} 
CCO theory{pspw} basis{100 Ry}  

The basis_property{} is an optional keyword used to specify the basis set used in an nmr calculation, and basis_base{} is an optional keyword used to specify the basis set of the base calculation for an MP2 or CCSD(T) calculation. By default the basis_property and basis_base are defined to be the same as basis{}.

ESMILES Options - xc{}, xc_property{} and xc_base{}

Only the Gaussian and plane-wave DFT programs utilize the xc{} keyword. The default exchange correlation functional used is xc{b3lyp}. The following exchange correlation functions are available with the Gaussian DFT and plane-wave DFT programs.

-       lda       --  local density approximation (LDA) of S.J. Vosko, L. Wilk and M. Nusair, Can. J. Phys. 58, 1200 (1980)  
   
-       pbe      -- The gradient corrected exchange correlation function of J.P. Perdew, K. Burke and M. Ernzerhof,   
                       Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3865 (1996); 78 , 1396 (1997)  
   
-       blyp     -- The gradient corrected exchange correlation function A.D. Becke, Phys. Rev. A 88, 3098 (1988) and   
                       C. Lee, W. Yang and R. G. Parr, Phys. Rev. B 37, 785 (1988)  
   
-       b3lyp   -- the hybrid exchange correlation function of A.D. Becke, J. Chem. Phys. 98, 5648 (1993)    
                       and C. Lee, W. Yang and R. G. Parr, Phys. Rev. B 37, 785 (1988)  
   
-       pbe0     -- the hybrid exchange correlation function of C.Adamo and V.Barone, J. Chem. Phys. 110, 6158 (1999)  
   
-       m06-2x -- the hybrid meta exchange correlation function of Y. Zhao, D. G. Truhlar, J. Chem. Phys. 125, 194101 (2006).   
                        Only available in Gaussian DFT program

The xc_property{} is an optional keyword used to specify the exchange correlation potential used in an nmr calculation, and xc_base{} is an optional keyword used to specify the exchange correlation potential of the base calculation for an MP2 or CCSD(T) calculation. By default the xc_property and xc_base are defined to be the same as xc{}.

ESMILES Options - solvation_type{}

The default solvation type is solvation_type{COSMO}. The following solvation types are available with the Gaussian DFT, MP2 and CCSD(T) programs.

-       COSMO            -- The COSMO solvation model of Klampt and Shuurman (solvent=water)

-       COSMO-SMD           -- The extended Minnesota COSMO solvation model of Cramer et al. (solvent=water)

-       COSMO-SMD:solvent   -- where the solvent keyword is from Table of SMD solvent names below

-       None                 -- Gas-phase calculation, no solvation model included in the calculations

The available SMD solvent keywords are given below:

Keyword	Name
h2o	water (default)
water	water (default)
acetacid	acetic acid
acetone	acetone
acetntrl	acetonitrile
acetphen	acetophenone
aniline	aniline
anisole	anisole
benzaldh	benzaldehyde
benzene	benzene
benzntrl	benzonitrile
benzylcl	benzyl chloride
brisobut	1-bromo-2-methylpropane
brbenzen	bromobenzene
brethane	bromoethane
bromform	bromoform
broctane	1-bromooctane
brpentan	1-bromopentane
brpropa2	2-bromopropane
brpropan	1-bromopropane
butanal	butanal
butacid	butanoic acid
butanol	1-butanol
butanol2	2-butanol
butanone	butanone
butantrl	butanonitrile
butile	butyl acetate
nba	butylamine
nbutbenz	n-butylbenzene
sbutbenz	sec-butylbenzene
tbutbenz	tert-butylbenzene
cs2	carbon disulfide
carbntet	carbon tetrachloride
clbenzen	chlorobenzene
secbutcl	sec-butyl chloride
chcl3	chloroform
clhexane	1-chlorohexane
clpentan	1-chloropentane
clpropan	1-chloropropane
ocltolue	o-chlorotoluene
m-cresol	m-cresol
o-cresol	o-cresol
cychexan	cyclohexane
cychexon	cyclohexanone
cycpentn	cyclopentane
cycpntol	cyclopentanol
cycpnton	cyclopentanone
declncis	cis-decalin
declntra	trans-decalin
declnmix	decalin (cis/trans mixture)
decane	n-decane
decanol	1-decanol
edb12	1,2-dibromoethane
dibrmetn	dibromomethane
butyleth	dibutyl ether
odiclbnz	o-dichlorobenzene
edc12	1,2-dichloroethane
c12dce	cis-dichloroethylene
t12dce	trans-dichloroethylene
dcm	dichloromethane
ether	diethyl ether
et2s	diethyl sulfide
dietamin	diethylamine
mi	diiodomethane
dipe	diisopropyl ether
dmds	dimethyl disulfide
dmso	dimethyl sulfoxide
dma	N,N-dimethylacetamide
cisdmchx	cis-1,2-dimethylcyclohexane
dmf	N,N-dimethylformamide
dmepen24	2,4-dimethylpentane
dmepyr24	2,4-dimethylpyridine
dmepyr26	2,6-dimethylpyridine
dioxane	1,4-dioxane
phoph	diphenyl ether
dproamin	dipropylamine
dodecan	n-dodecane
meg	1,2-ethanediol
etsh	ethanethiol
ethanol	ethanol
etoac	ethyl acetate
etome	ethyl formate
eb	ethylbenzene
phenetol	ethyl phenyl ether
c6h5f	fluorobenzene
foctane	1-fluorooctane
formamid	formamide
formacid	formic acid
heptane	n-heptane
heptanol	1-heptanol
heptnon2	2-heptanone
heptnon4	4-heptanone
hexadecn	n-hexadecane
hexane	n-hexane
hexnacid	hexanoic acid
hexanol	1-hexanol
hexanon2	2-hexanone
hexene	1-hexene
hexyne	1-hexyne
c6h5i	iodobenzene
iobutane	1-iodobutane
c2h5i	iodoethane
iohexdec	1-iodohexadecane
ch3i	iodomethane
iopentan	1-iodopentane
iopropan	1-iodopropane
cumene	isopropylbenzene
p-cymene	p-isopropyltoluene
mesityln	mesitylene
methanol	methanol
egme	2-methoxyethanol
meacetat	methyl acetate
mebnzate	methyl benzoate
mebutate	methyl butanoate
meformat	methyl formate
mibk	4-methyl-2-pentanone
mepropyl	methyl propanoate
isobutol	2-methyl-1-propanol
terbutol	2-methyl-2-propanol
nmeaniln	N-methylaniline
mecychex	methylcyclohexane
nmfmixtr	N-methylformamide (E/Z mixture)
isohexan	2-methylpentane
mepyrid2	2-methylpyridine
mepyrid3	3-methylpyridine
mepyrid4	4-methylpyridine
c6h5no2	nitrobenzene
c2h5no2	nitroethane
ch3no2	nitromethane
ntrprop1	1-nitropropane
ntrprop2	2-nitropropane
ontrtolu	o-nitrotoluene
nonane	n-nonane
nonanol	1-nonanol
nonanone	5-nonanone
octane	n-octane
octanol	1-octanol
octanon2	2-octanone
pentdecn	n-pentadecane
pentanal	pentanal
npentane	n-pentane
pentacid	pentanoic acid
pentanol	1-pentanol
pentnon2	2-pentanone
pentnon3	3-pentanone
pentene	1-pentene
e2penten	E-2-pentene
pentacet	pentyl acetate
pentamin	pentylamine
pfb	perfluorobenzene
benzalcl	phenylmethanol
propanal	propanal
propacid	propanoic acid
propanol	1-propanol
propnol2	2-propanol
propntrl	propanonitrile
propenol	2-propen-1-ol
propacet	propyl acetate
propamin	propylamine
pyridine	pyridine
c2cl4	tetrachloroethene
thf	tetrahydrofuran
sulfolan	tetrahydrothiophene-S,S-dioxide
tetralin	tetralin
thiophen	thiophene
phsh	thiophenol
toluene	toluene
tbp	tributyl phosphate
tca111	1,1,1-trichloroethane
tca112	1,1,2-trichloroethane
tce	trichloroethene
et3n	triethylamine
tfe222	2,2,2-trifluoroethanol
tmben124	1,2,4-trimethylbenzene
isoctane	2,2,4-trimethylpentane
undecane	n-undecane
m-xylene	m-xylene
o-xylene	o-xylene
p-xylene	p-xylene
xylenemx	xylene (mixture)

When a solvent is specified by name, the descriptors for the solvent are based on the Minnesota Solvent Descriptor Database:

Winget, P.; Dolney, D. M.; Giesen, D. J.; Cramer, C. J.; Truhlar, D. G. Minnesota Solvent Descriptor Database. University of Minnesota: Minneapolis, MN, 2010. http://comp.chem.umn.edu/solvation/mnsddb.pdf

ESMILES Reactions - How to Calculate Reaction Energies

The basic input is a chemical reaction where the molecules are specified using smiles strings or esmiles strings (vida infra), e.g.

   C(Cl)(Cl)(Cl)O + C --> C(Cl)(Cl)Cl + CO

Note that the reaction: :reaction keywords have only one “:”, whereas the Arrows keywords use two colons.

The results contain both gas phase and solution phase reaction energies. The default level of theory used in these calculations is b3lyp/6-311++G(2d,2p) and the default solvation model is COSMO. The returned email will contain the following output.

Reaction 1: C(Cl)(Cl)(Cl)O + C --> C(Cl)(Cl)Cl + CO    
- instance 1: 1.00 (Id=6833) + 1.00 (Id=11824) --> 1.00 (Id=6832) + 1.00 (Id=11215)    
- instance 1: 1.00 trichloromethanol + 1.00 methane --> 1.00 chloroform + 1.00 methanol    
- instance 1: 1.00 C1Cl3H1O1 + 1.00 C1H4 --> 1.00 C1Cl3H1 + 1.00 C1H4O1    
- instance 1:   1.00 OC(Cl)(Cl)Cl theory{dft} basis{6-311++G(2d,2p)} xc{b3lyp} solvation_type{COSMO} ^{0} mult{1} nf{?}    
- instance 1: + 1.00 C theory{dft} basis{6-311++G(2d,2p)} xc{b3lyp} solvation_type{COSMO} ^{0} mult{1} nf{0}    
- instance 1:   --> 1.00 C(Cl)(Cl)Cl theory{dft} basis{6-311++G(2d,2p)} xc{b3lyp} solvation_type{COSMO} ^{0} mult{1} nf{?}    
- instance 1:     + 1.00 CO theory{dft} basis{6-311++G(2d,2p)} xc{b3lyp} solvation_type{COSMO} ^{0} mult{1} nf{0}    
- instance 1:        Erxn(gas)       Hrxn(gas)       Grxn(gas) Delta_Solvation        Grxn(aq)    
- instance 1:            8.035           9.580           8.809          -1.991           6.818  -- in kcal/mol    
- instance 1:           33.618          40.084          36.857          -8.332          28.525  -- in kj/mol    
- instance 1:         0.012804        0.015267        0.014038       -0.003173        0.010865  -- in Hartrees

The reaction output for the chemical reaction contains the gas phase reaction energy, gas-phase reaction enthalpy, gas-phase reaction free energy, change in solvation energy, and the solution phase reaction free energy. The energy values are given in kcal/mol, kj/mol, and Hartrees.. Besides the energies the output also provides several rows of information about the calculation:

-       first row: the reaction input parsed  
-       second row: the arrows ids used for the compounds in the reaction  
-       third row: the iupac names of the compounds if available.  If not available the systems will default to using smiles   
                        strings  
-       fourth- rows: the chemical reaction is written using the esmiles notation.  

The esmiles notation contains all the information about the calculations of the compounds. In this example, theory used was dft, basis was 6-311++G(2d,2p), the exchange correlation, the solvation type was cosmo. The charge and multiplicity of the molecules are also given. The value in the nf{} tag contains the number of imaginary frequencies in the vibrational calculation for the molecule.

A variety of other inputs to describe the chemical structure besides smiles can be used, including common names, iupac, kegg numbers, cas, pubchem ids, chemspider ids, and InChI strings. The common names, iupac and InChI strings are entered as replacements to the smiles strings, and the kegg, cas, pubchem, and csid inputs are entered as kegg=value, cas=value, cid=value, csid=value where value is the id. The chemical structure input types can be mixed and matched in the reaction input. The following reaction inputs are all equivalent.

trichloromethanol + methane --> chloroform + methyl alcohol
trichloromethanol + C --> chloroform + kegg=D02309
trichloromethanol + C --> chloroform + cas=67-56-1
trichloromethanol + C --> chloroform + cid=887
trichloromethanol + C --> chloroform + csid=864
trichloromethanol + C --> chloroform + InChI=1S/CH4O/c1-2/h2H,1H3

To calculate atomization energies the following input can be used.

 C(Cl)(Cl)(Cl)O  --> [C]  mult{3} + 3 [Cl] mult{2} + [O] mult{3}

MAP Function for Adding Options to Reactions

To calculate a reaction energy using non-default options the following format could be used, e.g.

Arrows::  

reaction:   
trichloromethanol theory{pspw} xc{lda} + methane theory{pspw} xc{lda}   
--> chloroform theory{pspw} xc{lda} + methyl alcohol theory{pspw} xc{lda}   
:reaction  

::Arrows

in the body of an Arrows email, or just the following single line input in the Web API entry box

 trichloromethanol theory{pspw} xc{lda} + methane theory{pspw} xc{lda}   
 --> chloroform theory{pspw} xc{lda} + methyl alcohol theory{pspw} xc{lda}

Entering ESMILES in this way for reactions is tedius and prone to typos. To simplify this type of input a map function has been added to the reaction input, where the format for the mapping function is to append the reaction with the tilde, “~“, symbol followed by the esmiles options.

trichloromethanol + methane --> chloroform + methyl alcohol ~ theory{pspw} xc{lda}

The map function essentially appends every compound in the reaction by the esmiles options string.This is preferred way to use the map function. However, an alternative format for entering the map function has also been added to the reaction: :reaction block. The format of the block is reaction[esmiles options]: reaction :reaction.

Arrows::  

reaction[theory{pspw} xc{lda}]:   
trichloromethanol + methane --> chloroform + methyl alcohol    
:reaction  

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How to Define the Chemical Structure with XYZ Input

The xyzinput: :xyzinput block is used to enter a chemical structure using xyz coordinates. The label: :label subblock is used to label the xyz structure so that it can be referenced in reaction: :reaction, molecule: :molecule, and nmr: :nmr blocks. The xyz geometry is entered inside the xyzdata: :xyzdata block. The coordinates are assumed to be in Angstroms. The xyz geometry can either contain the number of atoms at the start of the input, e.g.

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xyzinput:  
label: amolecule :label  
   xyzdata:  
20  

C   0.810772 1.260891 0.224768  
C   -0.445319 0.626551 0.148559  
C   -0.550132 -0.747571 -0.024182  
C   0.598317 -1.510887 -0.051277  
C   1.856720 -0.927387 0.081993  
C   1.951003 0.440481 0.208335  
H   2.736961 -1.550133 0.062422  
H   2.912395 0.927722 0.273890  
O   1.062201 2.575051 0.296009  
C   0.213380 3.557631 -0.323370  
H   -1.520657 -1.209783 -0.105115  
N   -1.712300 1.341956 0.351481  
N   0.485785 -2.966232 -0.210786  
O   -0.636770 -3.441145 -0.327238  
O   1.526277 -3.613525 -0.218259  
O   -2.671572 1.004073 -0.327713  
O   -1.733900 2.198527 1.228109  
H   0.882435 4.349335 -0.647148  
H   -0.510291 3.940088 0.389177  
H   -0.297779 3.136834 -1.188838  
  :xyzdata  
:xyzinput  

molecule: label=amolecule xc{m06-2x} :molecule  

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r it can be left out, e.g.

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xyzinput:  
label: amolecule :label  
   xyzdata:  
C   0.810772 1.260891 0.224768  
C   -0.445319 0.626551 0.148559  
C   -0.550132 -0.747571 -0.024182  
C   0.598317 -1.510887 -0.051277  
C   1.856720 -0.927387 0.081993  
C   1.951003 0.440481 0.208335  
H   2.736961 -1.550133 0.062422  
H   2.912395 0.927722 0.273890  
O   1.062201 2.575051 0.296009  
C   0.213380 3.557631 -0.323370  
H   -1.520657 -1.209783 -0.105115  
N   -1.712300 1.341956 0.351481  
N   0.485785 -2.966232 -0.210786  
O   -0.636770 -3.441145 -0.327238  
O   1.526277 -3.613525 -0.218259  
O   -2.671572 1.004073 -0.327713  
O   -1.733900 2.198527 1.228109  
H   0.882435 4.349335 -0.647148  
H   -0.510291 3.940088 0.389177  
H   -0.297779 3.136834 -1.188838  
  :xyzdata  
:xyzinput  

molecule: label=amolecule xc{m06-2x} :molecule

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How to Calculate NMR Spectra

The nmr: :nmr block is used to energy an NMR calculation

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nmr: c1ccccc1 basis{6-31G*} solvation_type{None} :nmr
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For single line input the esmiles is preceded by the words “nmr for”, e.g.

nmr for c1ccccc1 basis{6-31G*} solvation_type{None}

How to Generate a Table of Reactions

The reactionenumerate: :reactionenumerate block is used to generate a table of reactions in CSV format, which can be copy and pasted into spreadsheets.

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reactionenumerate:  
  energytype: grxn(aq) kcal/mol :energytype  
  tablereactions:  
     reaction: TNT + hydroxide --> TNT-2-OH + nitrite :reaction  
     reaction: DNAN + hydroxide --> DNAN-2-OH + nitrite :reaction  
  :tablereactions  
  tablemethods:  
      method: xc{pbe} :method  
      method: xc{b3lyp} :method  
      method: xc{m06-2x} :method  
  :tablemethods  
:reactionenumerate  

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How to Fetch NWChem Output

The NWChem output can be fetched using the nwoutput: :nwoutput and printnwout: :printnwout blocks. The input for the nwoutput: :nwoutput block is an ESMILES strings, e.g.

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nwoutput: TNT theory{pspw} :nwoutput
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For single line input the esmiles is preceded by the words “nwoutput for”, e.g.

nwoutput for aspirin theory{pspw}

The input for the printnwout: :printnwout block is an Arrows id, e.g.

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printnwout: 13212 :printnwout
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Generate NWChem Input

The Web API can be used to generate an NWChem input deck. For single line input the esmiles is preceded by the words “input deck for”, e.g.

input deck for aspirin

How to Fetch XYZ Geometry

An XYZ geometry can be fetched using the xyzfile: :xyzfile and printxyz: :printxyz blocks. The input for the xyzfile: :xyzfile block is an ESMILES strings, e.g.

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xyzfile: TNT theory{pspw} :xyzfile
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The input for the printxyz: :printxyz block is an Arrows id, e.g.

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printxyz: 13212 :printxyz
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For single line input the esmiles is preceded by the words “xyz for”, e.g.

xyz for TNT theory{pspw}