  We propose a short- and long-range corrected (SLC) hybrid scheme employing
100% Hartree-Fock (HF) exchange at both zero and infinite interelectronic
distances, wherein three SLC hybrid density functionals with the D3 dispersion
corrections (SLC-LDA-D3, SLC-PBE-D3, and SLC-B97-D3) are developed. SLC-PBE-D3
and SLC-B97-D3 are shown to be accurate for a very diverse range of
applications, such as core ionization and excitation energies, thermochemistry,
kinetics, noncovalent interactions, dissociation of symmetric radical cations,
vertical ionization potentials, vertical electron affinities, fundamental gaps,
and valence, Rydberg, and long-range charge-transfer excitation energies.
Relative to omegaB97X-D, SLC-B97-D3 provides significant improvement for core
ionization and excitation energies and noticeable improvement for the
self-interaction, asymptote, energy-gap, and charge-transfer problems, while
performing similarly for thermochemistry, kinetics, and noncovalent
interactions.
