Timeline of Fragmentation Methods

The following subsections attempt to provide a chronological timeline of the history of fragment-based methods (at this time no attempt has been made to order methods which came out the same year).

1994

  • Molecular Tailoring Approach 25

1999

  • Pair Interation Molecular Orbital (PIMO) 42

  • Fragment Molecular Orbital (FMO) 41

2003

  • Molecular Fractionation with Conjugate Caps (MFCC) 99

2004

  • Divide-and-conquer local correlation (DCLC) 57

2005

  • Energy-Corredcted Molecular Fractionation with Conjugate Caps (EC-MFCC) 51

  • Fragment energy assembler (FEA) 58

  • Kernel Energy Method 34

  • Systematic Molecular Fragmentation (SMF) 11

2006

  • Electrostatic field-adpated MFCC (EFA-MFCC) 37

2007

  • Electorstatically-Embedded Many-Body Expansion (EE-MBE) 9

  • Generalized Energy Based Fragmentation (GEBF) 59