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Shaalan Alag A, Szalay PG, Tajti A. Ab initio investigation of excited state charge transfer pathways in differently capped bithiophene cages. J Comput Chem 2024; 45:1078-1086. [PMID: 38241483 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.27307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2023] [Revised: 11/27/2023] [Accepted: 12/15/2023] [Indexed: 01/21/2024]
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The electronic excitations of conformationally constrained bithiophene cage systems as previously investigated by Lewis et al. (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 143, 18548 (2021)) are revisited, employing the correlated ab initio Scaled Opposite-Spin Algebraic Diagrammatic Construction Second Order electronic structure method. Quantitative descriptors are determined to assess the extent of charge transfer between the bithiophene moieties and the capping domains, represented by either phenyl or triazine groups. The investigation substantiates intrinsic differences in the photophysical behavior of these two structural variants and reveals the presence of lower-energy excited states characterized by noteworthy charge transfer contributions in the triazine cage system. The manifestation of this charge transfer character is discernible even at the Franck-Condon geometry, persisting throughout the relaxation of the excited state. By examining isolated monomer building blocks, we confirm the existence of analogous charge transfer contributions in their excitations. Employing this methodological approach facilitates the prospective identification of potential wall/cap chromophore pairs, wherein charge transfer pathways can be accessed within the energetically favorable regime.
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- Ahmed Shaalan Alag
- Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Reimann M, Kirsch C, Sebastiani D, Kaupp M. Rydberg electron stabilizes the charge localized state of the diamine cation. Nat Commun 2024; 15:293. [PMID: 38177143 PMCID: PMC10767003 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44526-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/06/2024] Open
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A previous controversial discussion regarding the interpretation of Rydberg spectra of gaseous dimethylpiperazine (DMP) as showing the co-existence of a localized and delocalized mixed-valent DMP+ radical cation is revisited. Here we show by high-level quantum-chemical calculations that an apparent barrier separating localized and delocalized DMP+ minima in previous multi-reference configuration-interaction (MRCI) calculations and in some other previous computations were due to unphysical curve crossings of the reference wave functions. These discontinuities on the surface are removed in state-averaged MRCI calculations and with some other, orthogonal high-level approaches, which do not provide a barrier and thus no localized minimum. We then proceed to show that in the actually observed Rydberg state of neutral DMP the 3s-type Rydberg electron binds more strongly to a localized positive charge distribution, generating a localized DMP* Rydberg-state minimum, which is absent for the DMP+ cation. This work presents a case where interactions of a Rydberg electron with the underlying cationic core alter molecular structure in a fundamental way.
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- Marc Reimann
- Theoretische Chemie/Quantenchemie, Institut für Chemie, Sekr. C7, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, 06120, Halle (Saale), Germany
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- Theoretische Chemie/Quantenchemie, Institut für Chemie, Sekr. C7, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623, Berlin, Germany.
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Hancock AC, Goerigk L. Noncovalently bound excited-state dimers: a perspective on current time-dependent density functional theory approaches applied to aromatic excimer models. RSC Adv 2023; 13:35964-35984. [PMID: 38090083 PMCID: PMC10712016 DOI: 10.1039/d3ra07381e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Accepted: 11/21/2023] [Indexed: 05/12/2024] Open
Abstract
Excimers are supramolecular systems whose binding strength is influenced by many factors that are ongoing challenges for computational methods, such as charge transfer, exciton coupling, and London dispersion interactions. Treating the various intricacies of excimer binding at an adequate level is expected to be particularly challenging for time-dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT) methods. In addition to well-known limitations for some TD-DFT methods in the description of charge transfer or exciton coupling, the inherent London dispersion problem from ground-state DFT translates to TD-DFT. While techniques to appropriately treat dispersion in DFT are well-developed for electronic ground states, these dispersion corrections remain largely untested for excited states. Herein, we aim to shed light on current TD-DFT methods, including some of the newest developments. The binding of four model excimers is studied across nine density functionals with and without the application of additive dispersion corrections against a wave function reference of SCS-CC2/CBS(3,4) quality, which approximates select CCSDR(3)/CBS data adequately. To our knowledge, this is the first study that presents single-reference wave function dissociation curves at the complete basis set level for the assessed model systems. It is also the first time range-separated double-hybrid density functionals are applied to excimers. In fact, those functionals turn out to be the most promising for the description of excimer binding followed by global double hybrids. Range-separated and global hybrids-particularly with large fractions of Fock exchange-are outperformed by double hybrids and yield worse dissociation energies and inter-molecular equilibrium distances. The deviation between each assessed functional and reference increases with system size, most likely due to missing dispersion interactions. Additive dispersion corrections of the DFT-D3(BJ) and DFT-D4 types reduce the average errors for TD-DFT methods but do so inconsistently and therefore do not offer a black-box solution in their ground-state parametrised form. The lack of appropriate description of dispersion effects for TD-DFT methods is likely hindering the practical application of the herein identified more efficient methods. Dispersion corrections parametrised for excited states appear to be an important next step to improve the applicability of TD-DFT methods and we hope that our work assists with the future development of such corrections.
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- Amy C Hancock
- School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne Parkville Australia +61-(0)3-8344 6784
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- School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne Parkville Australia +61-(0)3-8344 6784
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Sirohiwal A, Pantazis DA. Reaction Center Excitation in Photosystem II: From Multiscale Modeling to Functional Principles. Acc Chem Res 2023; 56:2921-2932. [PMID: 37844298 PMCID: PMC10634305 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.3c00392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 10/18/2023]
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Oxygenic photosynthesis is the fundamental energy-converting process that utilizes sunlight to generate molecular oxygen and the organic compounds that sustain life. Protein-pigment complexes harvest light and transfer excitation energy to specialized pigment assemblies, reaction centers (RC), where electron transfer cascades are initiated. A molecular-level understanding of the primary events is indispensable for elucidating the principles of natural photosynthesis and enabling development of bioinspired technologies. The primary enzyme in oxygenic photosynthesis is Photosystem II (PSII), a membrane-embedded multisubunit complex, that catalyzes the light-driven oxidation of water. The RC of PSII consists of four chlorophyll a and two pheophytin a pigments symmetrically arranged along two core polypeptides; only one branch participates in electron transfer. Despite decades of research, fundamental questions remain, including the origin of this functional asymmetry, the nature of primary charge-transfer states and the identity of the initial electron donor, the origin of the capability of PSII to enact charge separation with far-red photons, i.e., beyond the "red limit" where individual chlorophylls absorb, and the role of protein conformational dynamics in modulating charge-separation pathways.In this Account, we highlight developments in quantum-chemistry based excited-state computations for multipigment assemblies and the refinement of protocols for computing protein-induced electrochromic shifts and charge-transfer excitations calibrated with modern local correlation coupled cluster methods. We emphasize the importance of multiscale atomistic quantum-mechanics/molecular-mechanics and large-scale molecular dynamics simulations, which enabled direct and accurate modeling of primary processes in RC excitation at the quantum mechanical level.Our findings show how differential protein electrostatics enable spectral tuning of RC pigments and generate functional asymmetry in PSII. A chlorophyll pigment on the active branch (ChlD1) has the lowest site energy in PSII and is the primary electron donor. The complete absence of low-lying charge-transfer states within the central pair of chlorophylls excludes a long-held assumption about the initial charge separation. Instead, we identify two primary charge separation pathways, both with the same pheophytin acceptor (PheoD1): a fast pathway with ChlD1 as the primary electron donor (short-range charge-separation) and a slow pathway with PD1PD2 as the initial donor (long-range charge separation). The low-energy spectrum is dominated by two states with significant charge-transfer character, ChlD1δ+PheoD1δ- and PD1δ+PheoD1δ-. The conformational dynamics of PSII allows these charge-transfer states to span wide energy ranges, pushing oxygenic photosynthesis beyond the "red limit". These results provide a quantum mechanical picture of the primary events in the RC of oxygenic photosynthesis, forming a solid basis for interpreting experimental observations and for extending photosynthesis research in new directions.
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- Abhishek Sirohiwal
- Department
of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Max-Planck-Institut
für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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Hall D, Sancho-García JC, Pershin A, Beljonne D, Zysman-Colman E, Olivier Y. Benchmarking DFT Functionals for Excited-State Calculations of Donor-Acceptor TADF Emitters: Insights on the Key Parameters Determining Reverse Inter-System Crossing. J Phys Chem A 2023. [PMID: 37196185 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c08201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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The importance of intermediate triplet states and the nature of excited states has gained interest in recent years for the thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) mechanism. It is widely accepted that simple conversion between charge transfer (CT) triplet and singlet excited states is too crude, and a more complex route involving higher-lying locally excited triplet excited states has to be invoked to witness the magnitude of the rate of reverse inter-system crossing (RISC) rates. The increased complexity has challenged the reliability of computational methods to accurately predict the relative energy between excited states as well as their nature. Here, we compare the results of widely used density functional theory (DFT) functionals, CAM-B3LYP, LC-ωPBE, LC-ω*PBE, LC-ω*HPBE, B3LYP, PBE0, and M06-2X, against a wavefunction-based reference method, Spin-Component Scaling second-order approximate Coupled Cluster (SCS-CC2), in 14 known TADF emitters possessing a diversity of chemical structures. Overall, the use of the Tamm-Dancoff Approximation (TDA) together with CAM-B3LYP, M06-2X, and the two ω-tuned range-separated functionals LC-ω*PBE and LC-ω*HPBE demonstrated the best agreement with SCS-CC2 calculations in predicting the absolute energy of the singlet S1, and triplet T1 and T2 excited states and their energy differences. However, consistently across the series and irrespective of the functional or the use of TDA, the nature of T1 and T2 is not as accurately captured as compared to S1. We also investigated the impact of the optimization of S1 and T1 excited states on ΔEST and the nature of these states for three different functionals (PBE0, CAM-B3LYP, and M06-2X). We observed large changes in ΔEST using CAM-B3LYP and PBE0 functionals associated with a large stabilization of T1 with CAM-B3LYP and a large stabilization of S1 with PBE0, while ΔEST is much less affected considering the M06-2X functional. The nature of the S1 state barely evolves after geometry optimization essentially because this state is CT by nature for the three functionals tested. However, the prediction of the T1 nature is more problematic since these functionals for some compounds interpret the nature of T1 very differently. SCS-CC2 calculations on top of the TDA-DFT optimized geometries lead to a large variation in terms of ΔEST and the excited-state nature depending on the chosen functionals, further stressing the large dependence of the excited-state features on the excited-state geometries. The presented work highlights that despite good agreement of energies, the description of the exact nature of the triplet states should be undertaken with caution.
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- David Hall
- Organic Semiconductor Centre, EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, KY16 9ST St Andrews, U.K
- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, University of Mons, 7000 Mons, Belgium
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, P.O. Box 49, 1121 Budapest, Hungary
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- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, University of Mons, 7000 Mons, Belgium
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- Organic Semiconductor Centre, EaStCHEM School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews, KY16 9ST St Andrews, U.K
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- Laboratory for Computational Modeling of Functional Materials, Namur Institute of Structured Matter, University of Namur, Rue de Bruxelles, 61, 5000 Namur, Belgium
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Electronic excited states in deep variational Monte Carlo. Nat Commun 2023; 14:274. [PMID: 36650151 PMCID: PMC9845370 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35534-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2022] [Accepted: 12/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Obtaining accurate ground and low-lying excited states of electronic systems is crucial in a multitude of important applications. One ab initio method for solving the Schrödinger equation that scales favorably for large systems is variational quantum Monte Carlo (QMC). The recently introduced deep QMC approach uses ansatzes represented by deep neural networks and generates nearly exact ground-state solutions for molecules containing up to a few dozen electrons, with the potential to scale to much larger systems where other highly accurate methods are not feasible. In this paper, we extend one such ansatz (PauliNet) to compute electronic excited states. We demonstrate our method on various small atoms and molecules and consistently achieve high accuracy for low-lying states. To highlight the method's potential, we compute the first excited state of the much larger benzene molecule, as well as the conical intersection of ethylene, with PauliNet matching results of more expensive high-level methods.
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Shaalan Alag A, Jelenfi DP, Tajti A, Szalay PG. Accurate Prediction of Vertical Ionization Potentials and Electron Affinities from Spin-Component Scaled CC2 and ADC(2) Models. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:6794-6801. [PMID: 36269873 PMCID: PMC9890482 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The CC2 and ADC(2) wave function models and their spin-component scaled modifications are adopted for predicting vertical ionization potentials (VIPs) and electron affinities (VEAs). The ionic solutions are obtained as electronic excitations in the continuum orbital formalism, making possible the use of existing, widespread quantum chemistry codes with minimal modifications, in full consistency with the treatment of charge transfer excitations. The performance of different variants is evaluated via benchmark calculations on various sets from previous works, containing small- and medium-sized systems, including the nucleobases. It is shown that with the spin-scaled approximate methods, in particular the scaled opposite-spin variant of the ADC(2) method, the accuracy of EOM-CCSD is achievable at a fraction of the computational cost, also outperforming many common electron propagator approaches.
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- Ahmed Shaalan Alag
- György
Hevesy Doctoral School, Institute of Chemistry,
ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117Budapest, Hungary
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- György
Hevesy Doctoral School, Institute of Chemistry,
ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117Budapest, Hungary
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- Laboratory
of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry,
ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, P.O. Box 32, H-1518Budapest 112, Hungary,E-mail:
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- Laboratory
of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry,
ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, P.O. Box 32, H-1518Budapest 112, Hungary
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Pavosevic F, Hammes-Schiffer S. Triple electron-electron-proton excitations and second-order approximations in nuclear-electronic orbital coupled cluster methods. J Chem Phys 2022; 157:074104. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0106173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
The accurate description of nuclear quantum effects, such as zero-point energy, is important for modeling a wide range of chemical and biological processes. Within the nuclear-electronic orbital (NEO) approach, such effects are incorporated in a computationally efficient way by treating electrons and select nuclei, typically protons, quantum mechanically with molecular orbital techniques. Herein, we implement and test a NEO coupled cluster method that explicitly includes the triple electron-proton excitations, where two electrons and one proton are excited simultaneously. Our calculations show that this NEO-CCSD(eep) method provides highly accurate proton densities and proton affinities, outperforming any previously studied NEO method. These examples highlight the importance of the triple electron-electron-proton excitations for an accurate description of nuclear quantum effects. Additionally, we also implement and test the second-order approximate coupled cluster with singles and doubles (NEO-CC2) method, as well as its scaled-opposite-spin (SOS) versions. The NEO-SOS$'$-CC2 method, which scales the electron-proton correlation energy as well as the opposite-spin and same-spin components of the electron-electron correlation energy, achieves nearly the same accuracy as the NEO-CCSD(eep) method for the properties studied. Because of its low computational cost, this method will enable a wide range of chemical and photochemical applications for large molecular systems. This work sets the stage for a wide range of developments and applications within the NEO framework.
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Loos PF, Lipparini F, Matthews DA, Blondel A, Jacquemin D. A Mountaineering Strategy to Excited States: Revising Reference Values with EOM-CC4. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:4418-4427. [PMID: 35737466 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In the framework of the computational determination of highly accurate vertical excitation energies in small organic compounds, we explore the possibilities offered by the equation-of-motion formalism relying on the approximate fourth-order coupled-cluster (CC) method, CC4. We demonstrate, using an extended set of more than 200 reference values based on CC including up to quadruples excitations (CCSDTQ), that CC4 is an excellent approximation to CCSDTQ for excited states with a dominant contribution from single excitations with an average deviation as small as 0.003 eV. We next assess the accuracy of several additive basis set correction schemes, in which vertical excitation energies obtained with a compact basis set and a high-order CC method are corrected with lower-order CC calculations performed in a larger basis set. Such strategies are found to be overall very beneficial, though their accuracy depends significantly on the actual scheme. Finally, CC4 is employed to improve several theoretical best estimates of the QUEST database for molecules containing between four and six (nonhydrogen) atoms, for which previous estimates were computed at the CCSDT level.
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- Pierre-François Loos
- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, University of Pisa, Via Moruzzi 3, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, United States
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- Nantes Université, CNRS, CEISAM UMR 6230, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Nantes Université, CNRS, CEISAM UMR 6230, F-44000 Nantes, France
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Hancock AC, Goerigk L. Noncovalently bound excited-state dimers: a perspective on current time-dependent density functional theory approaches applied to aromatic excimer models. RSC Adv 2022; 12:13014-13034. [PMID: 35520129 PMCID: PMC9062889 DOI: 10.1039/d2ra01703b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2022] [Accepted: 04/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
Abstract
Excimers are supramolecular systems whose binding strength is influenced by many factors that are ongoing challenges for computational methods, such as charge transfer, exciton coupling, and London dispersion interactions. Treating the various intricacies of excimer binding at an adequate level is expected to be particularly challenging for Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT) methods. In addition to well-known limitations for some TD-DFT methods in the description of charge transfer or exciton coupling, the inherent London dispersion problem from ground-state DFT translates to TD-DFT. While techniques to appropriately treat dispersion in DFT are well-developed for electronic ground states, these dispersion corrections remain largely untested for excited states. Herein, we aim to shed light on current TD-DFT methods, including some of the newest developments. The binding of four model excimers is studied across nine density functionals with and without the application of additive dispersion corrections against a wave function reference of SCS-CC2/CBS(3,4) quality, which approximates select CCSDR(3)/CBS data adequately. To our knowledge, this is the first study that presents single-reference wave function dissociation curves at the complete basis set level for the assessed model systems. It is also the first time range-separated double-hybrid density functionals are applied to excimers. In fact, those functionals turn out to be the most promising for the description of excimer binding followed by global double hybrids. Range-separated and global hybrids-particularly with large fractions of Fock exchange-are outperformed by double hybrids and yield worse dissociation energies and inter-molecular equilibrium distances. The deviation between each assessed functional and reference increases with system size, most likely due to missing dispersion interactions. Additive dispersion corrections of the DFT-D3(BJ) and DFT-D4 types reduce the average errors for TD-DFT methods but do so inconsistently and therefore do not offer a black-box solution in their ground-state parametrised form. The lack of appropriate description of dispersion effects for TD-DFT methods is likely hindering the practical application of the herein identified more efficient methods. Dispersion corrections parametrised for excited states appear to be an important next step to improve the applicability of TD-DFT methods and we hope that our work assists with the future development of such corrections.
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- Amy C Hancock
- School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne Parkville Australia +61-3-8344-6784
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- School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne Parkville Australia +61-3-8344-6784
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Haldar S, Mukhopadhyay T, Dutta AK. A similarity transformed second-order approximate coupled cluster method for the excited states: Theory, implementation, and benchmark. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:014110. [PMID: 34998329 DOI: 10.1063/5.0064889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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We present a novel and cost-effective approach of using a second similarity transformation of the Hamiltonian to include the missing higher-order terms in the second-order approximate coupled cluster singles and doubles (CC2) model. The performance of the newly developed ST-EOM-CC2 model has been investigated for the calculation of excitation energies of valence, Rydberg, and charge-transfer excited states. The method shows significant improvement in the excitation energies of Rydberg and charge-transfer excited states as compared to the conventional CC2 method while retaining the good performance of the latter for the valence excited state. This method retains the charge-transfer separability of the charge-transfer excited states, which is a significant advantage over the traditional CC2 method. A second order many-body perturbation theory variant of the new method is also proposed.
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- Soumi Haldar
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India
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Barboza CA, Morawski O, Olas J, Gawrys P, Banasiewicz M, Suwinska K, Shova S, Kozankiewicz B, Sobolewski AL. Unravelling the ambiguity of the emission pattern of donor–acceptor salicylaldimines. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.117532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Jelenfi DP, Tajti A, Szalay PG. First-principles interpretation of electron transport through single-molecule junctions using molecular dynamics of electron attached states. Mol Phys 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2021.1999518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Dávid P. Jelenfi
- Hevesy György PhD School of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Chemistry, Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Chemistry, Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Kim I, Cho KH, Jeon SO, Son WJ, Kim D, Rhee YM, Jang I, Choi H, Kim DS. Three States Involving Vibronic Resonance is a Key to Enhancing Reverse Intersystem Crossing Dynamics of an Organoboron-Based Ultrapure Blue Emitter. JACS AU 2021; 1:987-997. [PMID: 34467345 PMCID: PMC8395647 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.1c00179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2021] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
Abstract
The recently developed narrow-band blue-emitting organoboron chromophores based on the multiple-resonance (MR) effect have now become one of the most important components for constructing efficient organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). While they basically emit through fluorescence, they are also known for showing substantial thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) even with a relatively large singlet-triplet gap (ΔE ST). Indeed, understanding the reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) dynamics behind this peculiar TADF will allow judicious molecular designs toward achieving better performing OLEDs. Explaining the underlying nonadiabatic spin-flip mechanism, however, has often been equivocal, and how the sufficiently fast RISC takes place even with the sizable ΔE ST and vanishingly small spin-orbit coupling is not well understood. Here, we show that a vibronic resonance, namely the frequency matching condition between the vibration and the electronic energy gap, orchestrates three electronic states together and this effect plays a major role in enhancing RISC in a typical organoboron emitter. Interestingly, the mediating upper electronic state is quite high in energy to an extent that its thermal population is vanishingly small. Through semiclassical quantum dynamics simulations, we further show that the geometry dependent non-Condon coupling to the upper triplet state that oscillates with the frequency ΔE ST/ℏ is the main driving force behind the peculiar resonance enhancement. The existence of an array of vibrational modes with strong vibronic rate enhancements provides the ability to sustain efficient RISC over a range of ΔE ST in defiance of the energy gap law, which can render the MR-emitters peculiar in comparison with more conventional donor-acceptor type emitters. Our investigation may provide a new guide for future blue emitting molecule developments.
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- Inkoo Kim
- Data
and Information Technology Center, Samsung
Electronics, Hwaseong 18448, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic
of Korea
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- Samsung
Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung
Electronics, Suwon 16678, Republic of Korea
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- Data
and Information Technology Center, Samsung
Electronics, Hwaseong 18448, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry, Kyonggi University, Suwon 16227, Republic of Korea
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- Department
of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of
Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Republic
of Korea
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- Data
and Information Technology Center, Samsung
Electronics, Hwaseong 18448, Republic of Korea
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- Samsung
Advanced Institute of Technology, Samsung
Electronics, Suwon 16678, Republic of Korea
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- Data
and Information Technology Center, Samsung
Electronics, Hwaseong 18448, Republic of Korea
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Haldar S, Dutta AK. An efficient Fock space multi-reference coupled cluster method based on natural orbitals: Theory, implementation, and benchmark. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:014105. [PMID: 34241374 DOI: 10.1063/5.0054171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
We present a natural orbital-based implementation of the intermediate Hamiltonian Fock space coupled-cluster method for the (1, 1) sector of Fock space. The use of natural orbitals significantly reduces the computational cost and can automatically choose an appropriate set of active orbitals. The new method retains the charge transfer separability of the original intermediate Hamiltonian Fock space coupled-cluster method and gives excellent performance for valence, Rydberg, and charge-transfer excited states. It offers significant computational advantages over the popular equation of motion coupled cluster method for excited states dominated by single excitations.
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- Soumi Haldar
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India
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Sirohiwal A, Neese F, Pantazis DA. How Can We Predict Accurate Electrochromic Shifts for Biochromophores? A Case Study on the Photosynthetic Reaction Center. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 17:1858-1873. [PMID: 33566610 PMCID: PMC8023663 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c01152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
Abstract
Protein-embedded chromophores are responsible for light harvesting, excitation energy transfer, and charge separation in photosynthesis. A critical part of the photosynthetic apparatus are reaction centers (RCs), which comprise groups of (bacterio)chlorophyll and (bacterio)pheophytin molecules that transform the excitation energy derived from light absorption into charge separation. The lowest excitation energies of individual pigments (site energies) are key for understanding photosynthetic systems, and form a prime target for quantum chemistry. A major theoretical challenge is to accurately describe the electrochromic (Stark) shifts in site energies produced by the inhomogeneous electric field of the protein matrix. Here, we present large-scale quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics calculations of electrochromic shifts for the RC chromophores of photosystem II (PSII) using various quantum chemical methods evaluated against the domain-based local pair natural orbital (DLPNO) implementation of the similarity-transformed equation of motion coupled cluster theory with single and double excitations (STEOM-CCSD). We show that certain range-separated density functionals (ωΒ97, ωΒ97X-V, ωΒ2PLYP, and LC-BLYP) correctly reproduce RC site energy shifts with time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT). The popular CAM-B3LYP functional underestimates the shifts and is not recommended. Global hybrid functionals are too insensitive to the environment and should be avoided, while nonhybrid functionals are strictly nonapplicable. Among the applicable approximate coupled cluster methods, the canonical versions of CC2 and ADC(2) were found to deviate significantly from the reference results both for the description of the lowest excited state and for the electrochromic shifts. By contrast, their spin-component-scaled (SCS) and particularly the scale-opposite-spin (SOS) variants compare well with the reference DLPNO-STEOM-CCSD and the best range-separated DFT methods. The emergence of RC excitation asymmetry is discussed in terms of intrinsic and protein electrostatic potentials. In addition, we evaluate a minimal structural scaffold of PSII, the D1-D2-CytB559 RC complex often employed in experimental studies, and show that it would have the same site energy distribution of RC chromophores as the full PSII supercomplex, but only under the unlikely conditions that the core protein organization and cofactor arrangement remain identical to those of the intact enzyme.
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- Abhishek Sirohiwal
- Max-Planck-Institut
für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
- Fakultät
für Chemie und Biochemie, Ruhr-Universität
Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut
für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut
für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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Tajti A, Kozma B, Szalay PG. Improved Description of Charge-Transfer Potential Energy Surfaces via Spin-Component-Scaled CC2 and ADC(2) Methods. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 17:439-449. [PMID: 33326229 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c01146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
The molecular level understanding of electronic transport properties depends on the reliable theoretical description of charge-transfer (CT)-type electronic states. In this paper, the performance of spin-component-scaled variants of the popular CC2 and ADC(2) methods is evaluated for CT states, following benchmark strategies of earlier studies that revealed a compromised accuracy of the unmodified models. In addition to statistics on the accuracy of vertical excitation energies at equilibrium and infinite separation of bimolecular complexes, potential energy surfaces of the ammonia-fluorine complex are also reported. The results show the capability of spin-component-scaled approaches to reduce the large errors of their regular counterparts to a significant extent, outperforming even the coupled-cluster single and double method in many cases. The cost-effective scaled-opposite-spin variants are found to provide a remarkably good agreement with the CCSDT-3 reference data, thereby being recommended methods of choice in the study of charge-transfer states.
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- Attila Tajti
- Institute of Chemistry, Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, P.O. Box 32, H-1518, Budapest 112, Hungary
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- Institute of Chemistry, Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, P.O. Box 32, H-1518, Budapest 112, Hungary
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- Institute of Chemistry, Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, P.O. Box 32, H-1518, Budapest 112, Hungary
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Rishi V, Perera A, Bartlett RJ. A route to improving RPA excitation energies through its connection to equation-of-motion coupled cluster theory. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:234101. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0023862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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- Varun Rishi
- Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
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- Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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- Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
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Chrayteh A, Blondel A, Loos PF, Jacquemin D. Mountaineering Strategy to Excited States: Highly Accurate Oscillator Strengths and Dipole Moments of Small Molecules. J Chem Theory Comput 2020; 17:416-438. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c01111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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- Amara Chrayteh
- Université de Nantes, CNRS, CEISAM UMR 6230, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Université de Nantes, CNRS, CEISAM UMR 6230, F-44000 Nantes, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- Université de Nantes, CNRS, CEISAM UMR 6230, F-44000 Nantes, France
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Kozma B, Tajti A, Demoulin B, Izsák R, Nooijen M, Szalay PG. A New Benchmark Set for Excitation Energy of Charge Transfer States: Systematic Investigation of Coupled Cluster Type Methods. J Chem Theory Comput 2020; 16:4213-4225. [PMID: 32502351 PMCID: PMC7467641 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The
numerous existing publications on benchmarking quantum chemistry
methods for excited states rarely include Charge Transfer (CT) states,
although many interesting phenomena in, e.g., biochemistry and material
physics involve the transfer of electrons between fragments of the
system. Therefore, it is timely to test the accuracy of quantum chemical
methods for CT states, as well. In this study we first propose a new
benchmark set consisting of dimers having low-energy CT states. On
this set, the vertical excitation energy has been calculated with
Coupled Cluster methods including triple excitations (CC3, CCSDT-3,
CCSD(T)(a)*), as well as with methods including full or approximate
doubles (CCSD, STEOM-CCSD, CC2, ADC(2), EOM-CCSD(2)). The results
show that the popular CC2 and ADC(2) methods are much less accurate
for CT states than for valence states. On the other hand, EOM-CCSD
seems to have similar systematic overestimation of the excitation
energies for both types of states. Among the triples methods the novel
EOM-CCSD(T)(a)* method including noniterative triple excitations is
found to stand out with its consistently good performance for all
types of states, delivering essentially EOM-CCSDT quality results.
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- Balázs Kozma
- Institute of Chemistry, Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, P.O. Box 32, H-1518, Budapest 112, Hungary
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- Institute of Chemistry, Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, P.O. Box 32, H-1518, Budapest 112, Hungary
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
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- Institute of Chemistry, Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, P.O. Box 32, H-1518, Budapest 112, Hungary
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Loos PF, Scemama A, Jacquemin D. The Quest for Highly Accurate Excitation Energies: A Computational Perspective. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:2374-2383. [PMID: 32125872 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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We provide an overview of the successive steps that made it possible to obtain increasingly accurate excitation energies with computational chemistry tools, eventually leading to chemically accurate vertical transition energies for small- and medium-size molecules. First, we describe the evolution of ab initio methods employed to define benchmark values, with the original Roos CASPT2 method, then the CC3 method as in the renowned Thiel set, and more recently the resurgence of selected configuration interaction methods. The latter method has been able to deliver consistently, for both single and double excitations, highly accurate excitation energies for small molecules, as well as medium-size molecules with compact basis sets. Second, we describe how these high-level methods and the creation of representative benchmark sets of excitation energies have allowed the fair and accurate assessment of the performance of computationally lighter methods. We conclude by discussing possible future theoretical and technological developments in the field.
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- Pierre-François Loos
- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, 31062 Toulouse, France
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- Université de Nantes, CNRS, CEISAM UMR 6230, F-44000 Nantes, France
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Kochman MA, Durbeej B. Simulating the Nonadiabatic Relaxation Dynamics of 4-( N, N-Dimethylamino)benzonitrile (DMABN) in Polar Solution. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:2193-2206. [PMID: 32083861 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b10588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The compound 4-(N,N-dimethylamino)benzonitrile (DMABN) represents the archetypal system for dual fluorescence, a rare photophysical phenomenon in which a given fluorophore shows two distinct emission bands. Despite extensive studies, the underlying mechanism remains the subject of debate. In the present contribution, we address this issue by simulating the excited-state relaxation process of DMABN as it occurs in polar solution. The potential energy surfaces for the system are constructed with the use of the additive quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) method, and the coupled dynamics of the electronic wave function and the nuclei is propagated with the semiclassical fewest switches surface hopping method. The DMABN molecule, which comprises the QM subsystem, is treated with the use of the second-order algebraic diagrammatic construction (ADC(2)) method with the imposition of spin-opposite scaling (SOS). It is verified that this level of theory achieves a realistic description of the excited-state potential energy surfaces of DMABN. The simulation results qualitatively reproduce the main features of the experimentally observed fluorescence spectrum, thus allowing the unambiguous assignment of the two fluorescence bands: the normal band is due to the near-planar locally excited (LE) structure of DMABN, while the so-called "anomalous" second band arises from the twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) structure. The transformation of the LE structure into the TICT structure takes place directly via intramolecular rotation, and is not mediated by another excited-state structure. In particular, the oft-discussed rehybridized intramolecular charge transfer (RICT) structure, which is characterized by a bent nitrile group, does not play a role in the relaxation process.
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- Michał Andrzej Kochman
- Division of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden.,Department of Chemistry, University College London (UCL), 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0A, United Kingdom
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- Division of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden
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Kállay M, Nagy PR, Mester D, Rolik Z, Samu G, Csontos J, Csóka J, Szabó PB, Gyevi-Nagy L, Hégely B, Ladjánszki I, Szegedy L, Ladóczki B, Petrov K, Farkas M, Mezei PD, Ganyecz Á. The MRCC program system: Accurate quantum chemistry from water to proteins. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:074107. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5142048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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- Mihály Kállay
- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, H-1521 Budapest, Hungary
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Cardeynaels T, Paredis S, Deckers J, Brebels S, Vanderzande D, Maes W, Champagne B. Finding the optimal exchange–correlation functional to describe the excited state properties of push–pull organic dyes designed for thermally activated delayed fluorescence. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:16387-16399. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp02409k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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In view of designing organic dyes for TADF, TD-DFT calculations are performed on 10 prototypical donor-acceptor compounds and are benchmarked against riCC2 calculations, demonstrating that modified range-separated hybrids perform best.
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- Tom Cardeynaels
- University of Namur
- Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry
- Theoretical and Structural Physical Chemistry Unit
- Namur Institute of Structured Matter
- 5000 Namur
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- Hasselt University
- Institute for Materials Research (IMO-IMOMEC)
- Design & Synthesis of Organic Semiconductors (DSOS)
- 3590 Diepenbeek
- Belgium
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- Hasselt University
- Institute for Materials Research (IMO-IMOMEC)
- Design & Synthesis of Organic Semiconductors (DSOS)
- 3590 Diepenbeek
- Belgium
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- Hasselt University
- Institute for Materials Research (IMO-IMOMEC)
- Design & Synthesis of Organic Semiconductors (DSOS)
- 3590 Diepenbeek
- Belgium
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- Hasselt University
- Institute for Materials Research (IMO-IMOMEC)
- Design & Synthesis of Organic Semiconductors (DSOS)
- 3590 Diepenbeek
- Belgium
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- Hasselt University
- Institute for Materials Research (IMO-IMOMEC)
- Design & Synthesis of Organic Semiconductors (DSOS)
- 3590 Diepenbeek
- Belgium
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- University of Namur
- Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry
- Theoretical and Structural Physical Chemistry Unit
- Namur Institute of Structured Matter
- 5000 Namur
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Barboza CA, Gawrys P, Banasiewicz M, Suwinska K, Sobolewski AL. Photophysical transformations induced by chemical substitution to salicylaldimines. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:6698-6705. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp00110d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The role of electron-acceptor strength and microenvironment polarity on the photophysical properties of salicylaldimines.
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- Physics Institute
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- Warsaw
- Poland
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
- Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw
- Warsaw
- Poland
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Tajti A, Tulipán L, Szalay PG. Accuracy of Spin-Component Scaled ADC(2) Excitation Energies and Potential Energy Surfaces. J Chem Theory Comput 2019; 16:468-474. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b01065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Attila Tajti
- Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, 112, P.O. Box 32, H-1518 Budapest, Hungary
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- Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, 112, P.O. Box 32, H-1518 Budapest, Hungary
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- Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, 112, P.O. Box 32, H-1518 Budapest, Hungary
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