Evidence map›Paper›PMID 42734508›Full record

ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2026

BOS-TMC Data Set: DFT Properties of 159k Experimentally Characterized Transition Metal Complexes Spanning Multiple Charge and Spin States.

Aaron G Garrison, Jacob W Toney, Tatiana Nikolaeva, Roland G St Michel, Christopher J Stein, Heather J Kulik

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Aaron G GarrisonDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts02139, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-8011-2704
Jacob W ToneyDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts02139, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6920-1105
Tatiana NikolaevaDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts02139, United States.
Roland G St MichelDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts02139, United States.ORCID 0009-0003-6353-3111
Christopher J SteinDepartment of Chemistry, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Technical University of Munich, GarchingD-85748, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2050-4866
Heather J KulikDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts02139, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9342-0191

Funding

Basic Energy Sciences DE-SC0024174Dow Chemical Company NAInstitute for Advanced Study, Technische Universit?t M?nchen NAMassachusetts Institute of Technology NAMathWorks NA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present the Boston Open-Shell Transition Metal Complex (BOS-TMC) data set, a set of density functional theory (DFT) properties for 159k experimentally characterized mononuclear transition metal complexes (TMCs) in multiple spin states with a range of formal charges derived from the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD). To curate this set, we carried out an iterative procedure to confidently assign the overall TMC charge. From this information, we then obtained properties in up to three spin states, i.e., low-, intermediate-, and high-spin for 3d metals and low- and intermediate-spin for 4d and 5d metals, depending on compatibility with the metal electron configuration, for a total of 343.8k TMC/spin combinations. At odds with prior sets, we preserved experimental heavy atom coordinates in these structures during optimization. We report all properties using PBE0/def2-TZVP single-point energies for these structures. We introduce a scheme for computing metal-spin-dependent atomization energies, which we report for each TMC. Alongside electronic energies, we report up to seven additional properties, including HOMO and LUMO levels, HOMO-LUMO gap, atomic partial charges, dipole moments, atomization energies, and spin-splitting energies for a total of over 2.9 M TMC-associated properties. For a representative subset of over 10k complexes chosen based on size, we evaluate the sensitivity of computed properties to exchange-correlation (xc) functional choice from a set of 12 xc functionals spanning multiple rungs of "Jacob's ladder," highlighting hotspots of TMC space that have the greatest uncertainty with respect to xc choice. In comparison to prior experimentally derived TMC data sets, BOS-TMC is both larger and more diverse in terms of charge and spin configurations and, as a result, more diverse in its range of properties. This data set is expected to provide a high-fidelity foundation for machine learning model development, DFT benchmarking, and exploration of transition metal chemistry.

Indexed as

Coordination ComplexesDensity Functional TheoryTransition ElementsModels, MolecularCoordination ComplexesTransition Elements

Identifiers

PMID42734508
PMCPMC13580123

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.