A simple composite scheme is presented and benchmarked against the 38 reactions in Truhlar's HTBH38/08 and NHTBH38/08 databases. Mean unsigned deviation (MUD) for the complete set of 68 independent barriers is 0.40 kcal mol À1 , compared to 1.31 kcal mol À1 for G4 and 1.62 kcal mol À1 for the M06-2X-D3 method. The MUD of the new scheme on the barriers in the DBH24/08 subset (12 out of the 38 reactions in the other sets) is 0.27 kcal mol À1 , better than that obtained at the expensive CCSD(T,full)/aug-cc-pCV(T+d)Z level (0.46 kcal mol À1 ) and comparable to the most exact (and costly) Wn calculations (MUD = 0.14 kcal mol À1 ). The method was further tested against a subset of reactions, for which the geometry and energies of all species were determined at the much more demanding CCSD(T)-F12//pVQZ-F12 level. The SVECV-f12 procedure on this database results in RMSE and MUD values of only 0.21 and 0.16 kcal mol À1 .
Methods rooted in the density functional theory and in the coupled cluster ansatz were employed to investigate the cycloaddition reactions to ethylene and acetylene of 1,3-dipolar species including ozone and the derivatives issued from replacement of the central oxygen atom by the valence-isoelectronic sulfur atom, and/or of one or both terminal oxygen atoms by the isoelectronic CH 2 group. This gives rise to five different 1,3-dipolar compounds, namely ozone itself (O 3 ), sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), the simplest Criegee intermediate (CH 2 OO), sulfine (CH 2 SO), and thioformaldehyde Smethylide (CH 2 SCH 2 , TSM). The experimental and accurate theoretical data available for some of those molecules were employed to assess the accuracy of two lastgeneration composite methods employing conventional or explicitly correlated post-Hartree-Fock contributions (jun-Cheap and SVECV-f12, respectively), which were then applied to investigate the reactivity of TSM. The energy barriers provided by
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