“…7 This was formally realized by Bieger et al 8 However, up to now there have been no useful current density functionals available. Nonetheless a great success has been reached in application of DFT to magnetic shielding calculations in molecules just using an "uncoupled perturbation treatment" (UCPT), i.e., neglecting current contributions to the exchange-correlation potential and to the vector potential, as already proposed by Bieger et al 8 For an overview, see, e.g., refs 9-14. First principles NMR methods have shown a very large development of applications in all domains, with an increased interest for in situ reactions, 15,16 proteins, 17,18 zeolites, [19][20][21][22] and systems containing transition metals. 12,23,24 29 Si NMR spectra (including MAS NMR spectra for Si-containing solids) have the interesting characteristics to display large δ variations with local structure, involving the first and second shells of neighbors.…”