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Fehér PP, Madarász Á, Stirling A. Multiscale Modeling of Electronic Spectra Including Nuclear Quantum Effects. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 17:6340-6352. [PMID: 34582200 PMCID: PMC8515811 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00531] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
Theoretical prediction of electronic absorption spectra without input from experiments is no easy feat, as it requires addressing all of the factors that affect line shapes. In practice, however, the methodologies are limited to treat these ingredients only to a certain extent. Here, we present a multiscale protocol that addresses the temperature, solvent, and nuclear quantum effects as well as anharmonicity and the reconstruction of the final spectra from individual transitions. First, quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) molecular dynamics is conducted to obtain trajectories of solute-solvent configurations, from which the corresponding quantum-corrected ensembles are generated through the generalized smoothed trajectory analysis (GSTA). The optical spectra of the ensembles are then produced by calculating vertical transitions using time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) with implicit solvation. To obtain the final spectral shapes, the stick spectra from TDDFT are convoluted with Gaussian kernels where the half-widths are determined by a statistically motivated strategy. We have tested our method by calculating the UV-vis spectra of a recently discovered acridine photocatalyst in two redox states. Vibronic progressions and broadenings due to the finite lifetime of the excited states are not included in the methodology yet. Nuclear quantization affects the relative peak intensities and widths, which is necessary to reproduce the experimental spectrum. We have also found that using only the optimized geometry of each molecule works surprisingly well if a proper empirical broadening factor is applied. This is explained by the rigidity of the conjugated chromophore moieties of the selected molecules, which are mainly responsible for the excitations in the spectra. In contrast, we have also shown that other parts of the molecules are flexible enough to feature anharmonicities that impair the use of other techniques such as Wigner sampling.
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- Péter P. Fehér
- Institute
of Organic Chemistry, Research Centre for
Natural Sciences, Magyar tudósok krt. 2, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute
of Organic Chemistry, Research Centre for
Natural Sciences, Magyar tudósok krt. 2, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute
of Organic Chemistry, Research Centre for
Natural Sciences, Magyar tudósok krt. 2, 1117 Budapest, Hungary
- Department
of Chemistry, Eszterházy Károly
University, Leányka
u. 6, 3300 Eger, Hungary
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Diez-Cabanes V, Monari A, Pastore M. Competition between the Photothermal Effect and Emission in Potential Phototherapy Agents. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:8733-8741. [PMID: 34323496 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c03977] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Planar donor-acceptor-donor (D-A-D) organic molecules have been highlighted as promising photothermal agents due to their good light-to-heat conversion ratio, easy degradation, and chemical tunability. Very recently, it has been demonstrated that their photothermal conversion can be boosted by appending rather long alkyl chains. Despite this behavior being tentatively associated with the population of a nonradiative twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) state driven by an intramolecular motion, the precise mechanisms and the role played by the environment, and most notably aggregation, still remain elusive. In this context, we carried out a series of time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations combined with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to achieve a realistic description of the isolated and aggregated systems. Our theoretical models unambiguously evidence that the population of CT states is very unlikely in both cases, whereas the light-triggered heat dissipation can be ascribed to the activation of specific vibrational degrees of freedom related to the relative motion of the peripheral chains. Overall, our results clearly corroborate the active role played by the alkyl substituents in the photothermal conversion through vibrational motion, while breaking from the conventional picture, which invokes the formation of dark TICT states in loosely packed aggregates.
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- Valentin Diez-Cabanes
- Université de Lorraine & CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Théoriques (LPCT), UMR 7019, F-54000 Nancy, France
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- Université de Lorraine & CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Théoriques (LPCT), UMR 7019, F-54000 Nancy, France
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- Université de Lorraine & CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Théoriques (LPCT), UMR 7019, F-54000 Nancy, France
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Hanson-Heine MWD, George MW, Besley NA. A scaled CIS(D) based method for the calculation of valence and core electron ionization energies. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:034104. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5100098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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- School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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Muchová E, Slavíček P. Beyond Koopmans' theorem: electron binding energies in disordered materials. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2019; 31:043001. [PMID: 30524069 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aaf130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The topical review focuses on calculating ionization energies (IE), or electronic polarons in quasi-particle terminology, in large disordered systems, e.g. for a solute dissolved in a molecular solvent. The simplest estimate of the ionization energy is provided by one-electron energies in the Hartree-Fock theory, but the calculated quantities are not accurate. Density functional theory as many-body theory provides a principal opportunity for calculating one-electron energies including correlation and relaxation effects, i.e. the true energies of electronic polarons. We argue that such a principal possibility materializes within the concept of optimally tuned range-separated hybrid functionals (OT-RSH). We describe various schemes for optimal tuning. Importantly, the OT-RSH scheme is investigated for systems capped with dielectric continuum, providing a consistent picture on the QM/dielectric boundary. Finally, some limitations and open issues of the OT-RSH approach are addressed.
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- Eva Muchová
- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic
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Yang C, Dreuw A. Evaluation of the restricted virtual space approximation in the algebraic-diagrammatic construction scheme for the polarization propagator to speed-up excited-state calculations. J Comput Chem 2017; 38:1528-1537. [PMID: 28349599 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.24794] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2016] [Revised: 02/05/2017] [Accepted: 02/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The applicability and limitations of the restricted virtual space (RVS) approximation within the algebraic-diagrammatic construction (ADC) scheme for the polarization propagator up to third order is evaluated. In RVS-ADC, not only the core but also a substantial amount of energetically high-lying virtual orbitals is restricted in excitation energy calculations of low-lying excited electronic states. Using octatetraene, indole, and pyridine as representative examples and different standard basis sets of triple-zeta quality, RVS-ADC(2) turns out to be highly useful and to have negligible effects on ππ* excited states. However, for nπ* or πσ* states, the RVS approximation is generally less reliable but better at third-order than second-order ADC level. In addition, a unified, basis-set independent, thus normalized virtual orbital threshold (value) is introduced, making the RVS approximation more controllable and a priori applicable. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Chong Yang
- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany
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Tuna D, Lefrancois D, Wolański Ł, Gozem S, Schapiro I, Andruniów T, Dreuw A, Olivucci M. Assessment of Approximate Coupled-Cluster and Algebraic-Diagrammatic-Construction Methods for Ground- and Excited-State Reaction Paths and the Conical-Intersection Seam of a Retinal-Chromophore Model. J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 11:5758-81. [PMID: 26642989 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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As a minimal model of the chromophore of rhodopsin proteins, the penta-2,4-dieniminium cation (PSB3) poses a challenging test system for the assessment of electronic-structure methods for the exploration of ground- and excited-state potential-energy surfaces, the topography of conical intersections, and the dimensionality (topology) of the branching space. Herein, we report on the performance of the approximate linear-response coupled-cluster method of second order (CC2) and the algebraic-diagrammatic-construction scheme of the polarization propagator of second and third orders (ADC(2) and ADC(3)). For the ADC(2) method, we considered both the strict and extended variants (ADC(2)-s and ADC(2)-x). For both CC2 and ADC methods, we also tested the spin-component-scaled (SCS) and spin-opposite-scaled (SOS) variants. We have explored several ground- and excited-state reaction paths, a circular path centered around the S1/S0 surface crossing, and a 2D scan of the potential-energy surfaces along the branching space. We find that the CC2 and ADC methods yield a different dimensionality of the intersection space. While the ADC methods yield a linear intersection topology, we find a conical intersection topology for the CC2 method. We present computational evidence showing that the linear-response CC2 method yields a surface crossing between the reference state and the first response state featuring characteristics that are expected for a true conical intersection. Finally, we test the performance of these methods for the approximate geometry optimization of the S1/S0 minimum-energy conical intersection and compare the geometries with available data from multireference methods. The present study provides new insight into the performance of linear-response CC2 and polarization-propagator ADC methods for molecular electronic spectroscopy and applications in computational photochemistry.
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- Deniz Tuna
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung , 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, University of Heidelberg , 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Technology , 50370 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California , Los Angeles, California 90089, United States
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- Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg & Labex NIE, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS UMR 7504 , Strasbourg 67034, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Technology , 50370 Wrocław, Poland
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, University of Heidelberg , 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University , Bowling Green, Ohio 43402, United States.,Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia, Universitá de Siena , 53100 Siena, Italy
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Dreuw A, Wormit M. The algebraic diagrammatic construction scheme for the polarization propagator for the calculation of excited states. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 318] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Andreas Dreuw
- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing; Ruprecht-Karls University; Heidelberg Germany
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing; Ruprecht-Karls University; Heidelberg Germany
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Shemesh D, Lan Z, Gerber RB. Dynamics of Triplet-State Photochemistry of Pentanal: Mechanisms of Norrish I, Norrish II, and H Abstraction Reactions. J Phys Chem A 2013; 117:11711-24. [DOI: 10.1021/jp401309b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Dorit Shemesh
- Department of Physical Chemistry
and the Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
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- Key Laboratory of Biobased Materials
and the Qingdao Key Lab of Solar Energy Utilization and Energy Storage
Technology, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qinqdao 266101, China
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- Department of Physical Chemistry
and the Fritz Haber Center for Molecular Dynamics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
- Department of Chemistry, University of California—Irvine, Irvine, California
92597, United States
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Small Optical Gap Molecules and Polymers: Using Theory to Design More Efficient Materials for Organic Photovoltaics. Top Curr Chem (Cham) 2013; 352:1-38. [DOI: 10.1007/128_2013_459] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/08/2022]
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