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Jacquemin D, Zhao Y, Valero R, Adamo C, Ciofini I, Truhlar DG. Verdict: Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory "Not Guilty" of Large Errors for Cyanines. J Chem Theory Comput 2012; 8:1255-9. [PMID: 26596742 DOI: 10.1021/ct200721d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 99] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We assess the accuracy of eight Minnesota density functionals (M05 through M08-SO) and two others (PBE and PBE0) for the prediction of electronic excitation energies of a family of four cyanine dyes. We find that time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) with the five most recent of these functionals (from M06-HF through M08-SO) is able to predict excitation energies for cyanine dyes within 0.10-0.36 eV accuracy with respect to the most accurate available Quantum Monte Carlo calculations, providing a comparable accuracy to the latest generation of CASPT2 calculations, which have errors of 0.16-0.34 eV. Therefore previous conclusions that TDDFT cannot treat cyanine dyes reasonably accurately must be revised.
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- Denis Jacquemin
- Laboratoire CEISAM - UMR CNRS 6230, Université de Nantes , 2 Rue de la Houssinière, BP 92208, 44322 Nantes Cedex 3, France
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- Commercial Printing Engine Lab, HP Laboratories, Hewlett-Packard Co. , 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Coimbra , 3004-535 Coimbra, Portugal
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- École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris - Chimie ParisTech , LECIME, UMR 7575 CNRS, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France
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- École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris - Chimie ParisTech , LECIME, UMR 7575 CNRS, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Chemistry and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota , Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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Murugan NA, Chakrabarti S, Ågren H. Solvent dependence of structure, charge distribution, and absorption spectrum in the photochromic merocyanine-spiropyran pair. J Phys Chem B 2011; 115:4025-32. [PMID: 21417244 DOI: 10.1021/jp2004612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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We have studied the structures and absorption spectra of merocyanine, the photoresponsive isomer of the spiropyran (SP)-merocyanine (MC) pair, in chloroform and in water solvents using a combined hybrid QM/MM Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics (CP-QM/MM) and ZINDO approach. We report remarkable differences in the molecular structure and charge distribution of MC between the two solvents; the molecular structure of MC remains in neutral form in chloroform while it becomes charge-separated, zwitterionic, in water. The dipole moment of MC in water is about 50% larger than in chloroform, while the value for SP in water is in between, suggesting that the solvent is more influential than the conformation itself in deciding the dipole moment for the merocyanine-spiropyran pair. The calculations could reproduce the experimentally reported blue shift in the absorption spectra of MC when going from the nonpolar to the polar solvent, though the actual value of the absorption maximum is overestimated in chloroform solvent. We find that the CP-QM/MM approach is appropriate for structure modeling of solvatochromic and thermochromic molecules as this approach is able to capture the solvent and thermal-induced structural changes within the solute important for an accurate assessment of the properties.
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- N Arul Murugan
- Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Ponterini G, Vanossi D, Krasnaya ZA, Tatikolov AS, Momicchioli F. Electronic spectra and (hyper)polarizabilities of non-centrosymmetric D–A–D chromophores. An experimentally based three-state model and a theoretical TDDFT study of ketocyanines. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2011; 13:9507-17. [DOI: 10.1039/c1cp20244h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Patel DG, Paquette MM, Kopelman RA, Kaminsky W, Ferguson MJ, Frank NL. A Solution- and Solid-State Investigation of Medium Effects on Charge Separation in Metastable Photomerocyanines. J Am Chem Soc 2010; 132:12568-86. [PMID: 20731393 DOI: 10.1021/ja100238h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Dinesh G. Patel
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, P.O. Box 351700, Seattle, Washington 98195, Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3065, Victoria, BC V8W 3V6, Canada, and Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, P.O. Box 351700, Seattle, Washington 98195, Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3065, Victoria, BC V8W 3V6, Canada, and Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, P.O. Box 351700, Seattle, Washington 98195, Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3065, Victoria, BC V8W 3V6, Canada, and Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, P.O. Box 351700, Seattle, Washington 98195, Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3065, Victoria, BC V8W 3V6, Canada, and Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, P.O. Box 351700, Seattle, Washington 98195, Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3065, Victoria, BC V8W 3V6, Canada, and Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G2, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, P.O. Box 351700, Seattle, Washington 98195, Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3065, Victoria, BC V8W 3V6, Canada, and Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G2, Canada
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Silva PL, Pires PAR, Trassi MAS, Seoud OAE. Solvation in Pure Liquids: What Can Be Learned from the Use of Pairs of Indicators? J Phys Chem B 2008; 112:14976-84. [DOI: 10.1021/jp8067552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Priscilla L. Silva
- Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, C.P. 26077, 05513-970 São Paulo, S.P., Brazil
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- Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, C.P. 26077, 05513-970 São Paulo, S.P., Brazil
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- Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, C.P. 26077, 05513-970 São Paulo, S.P., Brazil
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- Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, C.P. 26077, 05513-970 São Paulo, S.P., Brazil
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Momicchioli F, Ponterini G, Vanossi D. First- and Second-Order Polarizabilities of Simple Merocyanines. An Experimental and Theoretical Reassessment of the Two-Level Model. J Phys Chem A 2008; 112:11861-72. [DOI: 10.1021/jp8080854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Fabio Momicchioli
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia and INSTM, Via Campi 183, 41100 Modena, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia and INSTM, Via Campi 183, 41100 Modena, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia and INSTM, Via Campi 183, 41100 Modena, Italy
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Pinheiro JMF, Peixoto PH, de Melo CP. Inverse photoinduced electron transfer in large betaine molecules. Chem Phys Lett 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2008.07.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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J-type aggregation of a simple merocyanine skeleton: Spectral features and structure of 4-amino-6-oxopyrimidine. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2007.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Guillaume M, Champagne B, Zutterman F. Investigation of the UV/Visible Absorption Spectra of Merocyanine Dyes Using Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory. J Phys Chem A 2006; 110:13007-13. [PMID: 17134160 DOI: 10.1021/jp064059p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The visible spectral properties of a set of merocyanine dyes have been determined experimentally and compared to theoretical estimates calculated using time-dependent density functional theory. Three families of merocyanines have been investigated. The merocyanines of the first class contain the 4-thiazolidinone, 2-thioxo group in resonance with different donor groups. In the second family, they present a common pyrrolo[2,3-c]pyrazole-6-(2H)-acetic acid, the 4-[4-(dialkylamino)phenyl]-3,5-dihydro-3,5-dioxo-2-phenyl group with different substituents on the two phenyl rings, while in the third family, they are constituted of an isoxazolone group linked via a conjugated polyenic segment to an aminophenyl group. Two hybrid exchange-correlation functionals have been used, whereas solvent effects have been included using the integral equation formalism of the polarizable continuum model. Moreover, for one compound, the vibrational structure of the electronic transitions has been determined by calculating the Franck-Condon factors within the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. The calculations show that the dominant transitions present a pi-pi(*) character. This approach reproduces nicely the variations of excitation energies with the nature of the merocyanine so that least-squares fits can be used to correct for the major systematic errors of the computational scheme and to reach an accuracy of 0.09 eV or better. Part of these systematic errors is shown to originate from the description of the solvent effects, whereas vibronic effects can account for most of the remaining differences.
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- Maxime Guillaume
- Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique Appliquée, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, rue de Bruxelles 61, B-5000 Namur, Belgium
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Caricato M, Mennucci B, Tomasi J. Solvent Effects on the Electronic Spectra: An Extension of the Polarizable Continuum Model to the ZINDO Method. J Phys Chem A 2004. [DOI: 10.1021/jp048888r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Solvent influence on absorption and fluorescence spectra of merocyanine dyes: a theoretical and experimental study. Chem Phys 2003. [DOI: 10.1016/s0301-0104(03)00046-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Baraldi I, Momicchioli F, Ponterini G, Tatikolov AS, Vanossi D. Exciton-Like and Charge-Transfer States in Cyanine−Oxonol Ion Pairs. An Experimental and Theoretical Study. J Phys Chem A 2001. [DOI: 10.1021/jp004479t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- I. Baraldi
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 183, I-41100 Modena, Italy and Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of Russia, Kosygin Street 4, 117977, Moscow, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 183, I-41100 Modena, Italy and Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of Russia, Kosygin Street 4, 117977, Moscow, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 183, I-41100 Modena, Italy and Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of Russia, Kosygin Street 4, 117977, Moscow, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 183, I-41100 Modena, Italy and Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of Russia, Kosygin Street 4, 117977, Moscow, Russia
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 183, I-41100 Modena, Italy and Institute of Chemical Physics, Academy of Sciences of Russia, Kosygin Street 4, 117977, Moscow, Russia
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Cichos F, Brown R, Bopp PA. Coupled molecular dynamics/semiempirical simulation of organic solutes in polar liquids. I. Naphthalene in acetonitrile. J Chem Phys 2001. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1351875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Millié P, Momicchioli F, Vanossi D. Exciton Effects in the Dimer and Higher Aggregates of a Simple Merocyanine Dye. A CS INDO CI Based Theoretical Study. J Phys Chem B 2000. [DOI: 10.1021/jp001383q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- P. Millié
- Commisariat à l'Energie Atomique de Saclay, DRECAM, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 183, I-41100 Modena, Italy
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- Commisariat à l'Energie Atomique de Saclay, DRECAM, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 183, I-41100 Modena, Italy
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- Commisariat à l'Energie Atomique de Saclay, DRECAM, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France, and Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 183, I-41100 Modena, Italy
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A Recent Development of the CS INDO Model. Treatment of Solvent Effects on Structures and Optical Properties of Organic Dyes‡‡dedicated to Professor G. Del Re. ADVANCES IN QUANTUM CHEMISTRY 2000. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3276(08)60481-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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