Required Citations
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When you publish results in the scientific literature that were
obtained with programs of the ADF package, you are required to include
references to the program package with the appropriate release number,
and a few key publications.


General References
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For calculations with the COSMO-RS program, version 2023.1:

1. C.C. Pye, T. Ziegler, E. van Lenthe, J.N. Louwen,  *An
implementation of the conductor-like screening model of solvation
within the Amsterdam density functional package. Part II. COSMO for
real solvents*,  Can. J. Chem. 87, 790 (2009)

2. AMS 2026.1 COSMO-RS, SCM, Theoretical Chemistry, Vrije
Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands,  https://www.scm.com
Optionally, you may add the following list of authors and
contributors: J.N. Louwen, C.C. Pye, E. van Lenthe, N.D. Austin, E.S.
McGarrity, R. Xiong, S.I. Sandler, R.I. Burnett

If you use COSMO-SAC 2013-ADF you must also add

3. R. Xiong, S.I. Sandler, R.I. Burnett, *An improvement to COSMO-SAC
for predicting thermodynamic properties*,  Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 53,
8265 (2014)


Solvent Optimizations
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For solvent optimizations:

N.D. Austin, N.V. Sahinidis, D.W. Trahan, *COSMO-based computer-aided
molecular/mixture design: A focus on reaction solvents*, AIChE Journal
64, 104 (2018)


External programs and Libraries
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Third party software used in the 2026.1 version of the Amsterdam
Modeling Suite can be found in the file titled "third-party-
software.txt" in the root of your AMS installation.
