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Khanam S, Akram SJ, Khera RA, Zohra ST, Shawky AM, Alatawi NS, Ibrahim MAA, Rashid EU. Exploration of charge transfer analysis and photovoltaics properties of A-D-A type non-fullerene phenazine based molecules to enhance the organic solar cell properties. J Mol Graph Model 2023; 125:108580. [PMID: 37544020 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2023.108580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2023] [Revised: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 07/28/2023] [Indexed: 08/08/2023]
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To intensify the photovoltaic properties of organic solar cells, density functional theory (DFT) based computational techniques were implemented on six non-fullerene A-D-A type small molecules (N1-N6) modified from reference molecule (R) which consists of phenazine fused with 1,4- Dimethyl-4H-3,7-dithia-4-aza- cyclopenta [α] pentalene on both sides with one of its phenyl rings acting as the central donor unit, further attached with 2-(5,6-Difluoro-2-methylene-3-oxo-indan-1-ylidene)-malononitrile acceptor groups at terminal sites. All proposed compounds have a phenazine base modified with a variety of substituents at the terminals. Transition density matrix, density of states, frontier molecular orbitals, intramolecular charge transfer abilities and optoelectronic properties of these compounds were investigated using B3LYP/6-31G (d, p) and B3LYP/6-31G++ (d,p) level of theory. All six designed compounds exhibited a bathochromic sift in their λmax as compared to the R molecule. All designed molecules also have reduced band gap and smaller excitation energy than R. Among all, N6 exhibited highest λmax and lowest bandgap as compared to reference molecule indicating its promising photovoltaic properties. Decreased hole and electron reorganization energy in several of the suggested compounds is indicative of greater charge mobility in them. PTB7-Th donor was employed to calculate open circuit voltage of all investigated molecules. N1-N5 molecules had improved optoelectronic properties, significant probable power conversion efficiency as evident from their absorption aspects, high values of Voc, and fill factor, compared to R molecule. Designed A-D-A type NF based molecules make OSCs ideal for use in wearable devices, building-integrated photovoltaics and smart fabrics.
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- Sabiha Khanam
- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan; Theoretical Physics IV, University of Bayreuth, Universität straße 30, 95447, Bayreuth, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan
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- Science and Technology Unit (STU), Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia
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- Physics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, 71421, Saudi Arabia
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- Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Minia University, Minia, 61519, Egypt; School of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban, 4000, South Africa
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan.
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Asif A, Maqsood N, Akram SJ, Nouman M, Elmushyakhi A, Shawky AM, Iqbal J. Efficient side-chain engineering of thieno-imidazole salt-based molecule to boost the optoelectronic attributes of organic solar cells: A DFT approach. J Mol Graph Model 2023; 121:108428. [PMID: 36801585 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2023.108428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2022] [Revised: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 02/06/2023] [Indexed: 02/15/2023]
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This study focused on modeling and density functional theory (DFT) analysis of reference (AI1) and designed structures (AI11-AI15), based on the thieno-imidazole core, in order to create profitable candidates for solar cells. All the optoelectronic properties of the molecular geometries were computed using DFT and time dependent-DFT approaches. The influence of terminal acceptors on the bandgaps, absorption, hole and electron mobilities, charge transfer capabilities, fill factor, dipole moment, etc. Of the recently designed structures (AI11-AI15), as well as reference (AI1), were evaluated. Optoelectronics and chemical parameters of newly architecture geometries were shown to be superior to the cited molecule. The FMOs and DOS graphs also demonstrated that the linked acceptors remarkably improved the dispersion of charge density in the geometries under study, particularly in AI11 and AI14. Calculated values of binding energy and chemical potential confirmed the thermal stability of the molecules. All the derived geometries surpassed the AI1 (Reference) molecule in terms of maximum absorbance ranging from 492 to 532 nm (in chlorobenzene solvent) and a narrower bandgap ranging from 1.76 to 1.99eV. AI15 had the lowest exciton dissociation energy of 0.22eV as well as lowest electrons and hole dissociation energies, while AI11 and AI14 showed highest VOC, fill factor, power conversion efficiency (PCE), IP and EA (owing to presence of strong electron pulling cyano (CN) moieties at their acceptor portions and extended conjugation) than all the examined molecules, implying that they could be used to build elite solar cells with enhanced photovoltaic attributes.
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- Areeba Asif
- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, 38000, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, 38000, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, 38000, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, 38000, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia
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- Science and Technology Unit (STU), Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, 21955, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture, 38000, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
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Novel A-π-D-π-A-type non-fullerene acceptors for solution-processed organic photovoltaic cells: A DFT study. J SOLID STATE CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2022.123714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Olsen JMH, Reine S, Vahtras O, Kjellgren E, Reinholdt P, Hjorth Dundas KO, Li X, Cukras J, Ringholm M, Hedegård ED, Di Remigio R, List NH, Faber R, Cabral Tenorio BN, Bast R, Pedersen TB, Rinkevicius Z, Sauer SPA, Mikkelsen KV, Kongsted J, Coriani S, Ruud K, Helgaker T, Jensen HJA, Norman P. Dalton Project: A Python platform for molecular- and electronic-structure simulations of complex systems. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:214115. [PMID: 32505165 DOI: 10.1063/1.5144298] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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The Dalton Project provides a uniform platform access to the underlying full-fledged quantum chemistry codes Dalton and LSDalton as well as the PyFraME package for automatized fragmentation and parameterization of complex molecular environments. The platform is written in Python and defines a means for library communication and interaction. Intermediate data such as integrals are exposed to the platform and made accessible to the user in the form of NumPy arrays, and the resulting data are extracted, analyzed, and visualized. Complex computational protocols that may, for instance, arise due to a need for environment fragmentation and configuration-space sampling of biochemical systems are readily assisted by the platform. The platform is designed to host additional software libraries and will serve as a hub for future modular software development efforts in the distributed Dalton community.
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- Jógvan Magnus Haugaard Olsen
- Department of Chemistry, Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Chemistry, Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, University of Oslo, N-0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry, Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Division of Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Chemistry and the PULSE Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- DTU Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Chemistry, Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, University of Oslo, N-0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- DTU Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Chemistry, Hylleraas Centre for Quantum Molecular Sciences, University of Oslo, N-0315 Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Aidas K, Angeli C, Bak KL, Bakken V, Bast R, Boman L, Christiansen O, Cimiraglia R, Coriani S, Dahle P, Dalskov EK, Ekström U, Enevoldsen T, Eriksen JJ, Ettenhuber P, Fernández B, Ferrighi L, Fliegl H, Frediani L, Hald K, Halkier A, Hättig C, Heiberg H, Helgaker T, Hennum AC, Hettema H, Hjertenæs E, Høst S, Høyvik IM, Iozzi MF, Jansík B, Jensen HJA, Jonsson D, Jørgensen P, Kauczor J, Kirpekar S, Kjærgaard T, Klopper W, Knecht S, Kobayashi R, Koch H, Kongsted J, Krapp A, Kristensen K, Ligabue A, Lutnæs OB, Melo JI, Mikkelsen KV, Myhre RH, Neiss C, Nielsen CB, Norman P, Olsen J, Olsen JMH, Osted A, Packer MJ, Pawlowski F, Pedersen TB, Provasi PF, Reine S, Rinkevicius Z, Ruden TA, Ruud K, Rybkin VV, Sałek P, Samson CCM, de Merás AS, Saue T, Sauer SPA, Schimmelpfennig B, Sneskov K, Steindal AH, Sylvester-Hvid KO, Taylor PR, Teale AM, Tellgren EI, Tew DP, Thorvaldsen AJ, Thøgersen L, Vahtras O, Watson MA, Wilson DJD, Ziolkowski M, Agren H. The Dalton quantum chemistry program system. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2013; 4:269-284. [PMID: 25309629 PMCID: PMC4171759 DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 874] [Impact Index Per Article: 79.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Dalton is a powerful general-purpose program system for the study of molecular electronic structure at the Hartree-Fock, Kohn-Sham, multiconfigurational self-consistent-field, Møller-Plesset, configuration-interaction, and coupled-cluster levels of theory. Apart from the total energy, a wide variety of molecular properties may be calculated using these electronic-structure models. Molecular gradients and Hessians are available for geometry optimizations, molecular dynamics, and vibrational studies, whereas magnetic resonance and optical activity can be studied in a gauge-origin-invariant manner. Frequency-dependent molecular properties can be calculated using linear, quadratic, and cubic response theory. A large number of singlet and triplet perturbation operators are available for the study of one-, two-, and three-photon processes. Environmental effects may be included using various dielectric-medium and quantum-mechanics/molecular-mechanics models. Large molecules may be studied using linear-scaling and massively parallel algorithms. Dalton is distributed at no cost from http://www.daltonprogram.org for a number of UNIX platforms.
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- Kestutis Aidas
- Department of General Physics and Spectroscopy, Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Aarhus University School of Engineering Aarhus, Denmark
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Oslo Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, School of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Trieste Trieste, Italy
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- Norwegian Computing Center Oslo, Norway
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- CTCC, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Physical Chemistry and Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CIQUS), University of Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- CTCC, Department of Chemistry, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Norway
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- CTCC, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo Oslo, Norway
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- CTCC, Department of Chemistry, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Norway
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum Bochum, Germany
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- CTCC, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Philosophy, The University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark Odense, Denmark
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- High-Performance Computing Group, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Norway
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- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University Linköping, Sweden
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich Zürich, Switzerland
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- Australian National University Supercomputer Facility Canberra, Australia
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- Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark Odense, Denmark
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- Computer Services: Networks and Systems, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Modena, Italy
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- Physics Department, FCEyN-UBA and IFIBA-CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark Odense, Denmark
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- Institute of Physics, Kazimierz Wielki University Bydgoszcz, Poland
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- Department of Physics, University of Northeastern and IMIT-CONICET Corrientes, Argentina
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- CTCC, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, School of Biotechnology and Swedish e-Science Research Center (SeRC), KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden
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- CTCC, Department of Chemistry, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Norway
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Paul Sabatier University Toulouse, France
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen Denmark
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- Institute for Nuclear Waste Disposal, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Karlsruhe, Germany
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- CTCC, Department of Chemistry, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Norway
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- VLSCI and School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne Parkville, Australia
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- School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham Nottingham, UK
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- CTCC, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo Oslo, Norway
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol Bristol, UK
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, School of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey
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- Department of Chemistry and La Trobe Institute for Molecular Sciences, La Trobe University Melbourne, Australia
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- CoE for Next Generation Computing, Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, School of Biotechnology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden
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Chen X, Rinkevicius Z, Ruud K, Ågren H. Role of zero-point vibrational corrections to carbon hyperfine coupling constants in organic π radicals. J Chem Phys 2013; 138:054310. [PMID: 23406122 DOI: 10.1063/1.4789769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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By analyzing a set of organic π radicals, we demonstrate that zero-point vibrational corrections give significant contributions to carbon hyperfine coupling constants, in one case even inducing a sign reversal for the coupling constant. We discuss the implications of these findings for the computational analysis of electron paramagnetic spectra based on hyperfine coupling constants evaluated at the equilibrium geometry of radicals. In particular, we note that a dynamical description that involves the nuclear motion is in many cases necessary in order to achieve a semi-quantitatively predictive theory for carbon hyperfine coupling constants. In addition, we discuss the implications of the strong dependence of the carbon hyperfine coupling constants on the zero-point vibrational corrections for the selection of exchange-correlation functionals in density functional theory studies of these constants.
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- X Chen
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Biotechnology, Division of Theoretical Chemistry and Biology, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Rinkevicius Z, Murugan NA, Kongsted J, Frecuş B, Steindal AH, Ågren H. Density Functional Restricted–Unrestricted/Molecular Mechanics Theory for Hyperfine Coupling Constants of Molecules in Solution. J Chem Theory Comput 2011; 7:3261-71. [DOI: 10.1021/ct2003572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Zilvinas Rinkevicius
- Department of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
- Swedish e-Science Research Center (SeRC), Royal Institute of Technology, SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Tromsø, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, School of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Li Z, Liu W. Spin-adapted open-shell random phase approximation and time-dependent density functional theory. I. Theory. J Chem Phys 2010; 133:064106. [PMID: 20707560 DOI: 10.1063/1.3463799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The spin-adaptation of single-reference quantum chemical methods for excited states of open-shell systems has been nontrivial. The primary reason is that the configuration space, generated by a truncated rank of excitations from only one component of a reference multiplet, is spin-incomplete. Those "missing" configurations are of higher ranks and can, in principle, be recaptured by a particular class of excitation operators. However, the resulting formalisms are then quite involved and there are situations [e.g., time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) under the adiabatic approximation] that prevent one from doing so. To solve this issue, we propose here a tensor-coupling scheme that invokes all the components of a reference multiplet (i.e., a tensor reference) rather than increases the excitation ranks. A minimal spin-adapted n-tuply excited configuration space can readily be constructed by tensor products between the n-tuple tensor excitation operators and the chosen tensor reference. Further combined with the tensor equation-of-motion formalism, very compact expressions for excitation energies can be obtained. As a first application of this general idea, a spin-adapted open-shell random phase approximation is first developed. The so-called "translation rule" is then adopted to formulate a spin-adapted, restricted open-shell Kohn-Sham (ROKS)-based TD-DFT (ROKS-TD-DFT). Here, a particular symmetry structure has to be imposed on the exchange-correlation kernel. While the standard ROKS-TD-DFT can access only excited states due to singlet-coupled single excitations, i.e., only some of the singly excited states of the same spin (S(i)) as the reference, the new scheme can capture all the excited states of spin S(i)-1, S(i), or S(i)+1 due to both singlet- and triplet-coupled single excitations. The actual implementation and computation are very much like the (spin-contaminated) unrestricted Kohn-Sham-based TD-DFT. It is also shown that spin-contaminated spin-flip configuration interaction approaches can easily be spin-adapted via the tensor-coupling scheme.
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- Zhendong Li
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, and Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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Chen X, Rinkevicius Z, Cao Z, Ruud K, Agren H. Zero-point vibrational corrections to isotropic hyperfine coupling constants in polyatomic molecules. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2010; 13:696-707. [PMID: 21063618 DOI: 10.1039/c0cp01443e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The present work addresses isotropic hyperfine coupling constants in polyatomic systems with a particular emphasis on a largely neglected, but a posteriori significant, effect, namely zero-point vibrational corrections. Using the density functional restricted-unrestricted approach, the zero-point vibrational corrections are evaluated for the allyl radical and four of its derivatives. In addition for establishing the numerical size of the zero-point vibrational corrections to the isotropic hyperfine coupling constants, we present simple guidelines useful for identifying hydrogens for which such corrections are significant. Based on our findings, we critically re-examine the computational procedures used for the determination of hyperfine coupling constants in general as well as the practice of using experimental hyperfine coupling constants as reference data when benchmarking and optimizing exchange-correlation functionals and basis sets for such calculations.
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- Xing Chen
- Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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Rinkevicius Z, de Almeida KJ, Vahtras O. Density functional restricted-unrestricted approach for nonlinear properties: application to electron paramagnetic resonance parameters of square planar copper complexes. J Chem Phys 2008; 129:064109. [PMID: 18715053 DOI: 10.1063/1.2964102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The density functional restricted-unrestricted approach for treatments of spin polarization effects in molecular properties using spin restricted Kohn-Sham theory has been extended from linear to nonlinear properties. It is shown that the spin polarization contribution to a nonlinear property has the form of a quadratic response function that includes the zero-order Kohn-Sham operator, in analogy to the lower order case where the spin polarization correction to an expectation value has the form of a linear response function. The developed approach is used to formulate new schemes for computation of electronic g-tensors and hyperfine coupling constants, which include spin polarization effects within the framework of spin restricted Kohn-Sham theory. The proposed computational schemes are in the present work employed to study the spin polarization effects on electron paramagnetic resonance spin Hamiltonian parameters of square planar copper complexes. The obtained results indicate that spin polarization gives rise to sizable contributions to the hyperfine coupling tensor of copper in all investigated complexes, while the electronic g-tensors of these complexes are only marginally affected by spin polarization and other factors, such as choice of exchange-correlation functional or molecular structures, will have more pronounced impact on the accuracy of the results.
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- Zilvinas Rinkevicius
- Department of Theoretical Chemistry, School of Biotechnology, The Royal Institute of Technology, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Rinkevicius Z, Jha PC, Oprea CI, Vahtras O, Agren H. Time-dependent density functional theory for nonlinear properties of open-shell systems. J Chem Phys 2007; 127:114101. [PMID: 17887822 DOI: 10.1063/1.2768357] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
This paper presents response theory based on a spin-restricted Kohn-Sham formalism for computation of time-dependent and time-independent nonlinear properties of molecules with a high spin ground state. The developed approach is capable to handle arbitrary perturbations and constitutes an efficient procedure for evaluation of electric, magnetic, and mixed properties. Apart from presenting the derivation of the proposed approach, we show results from illustrating calculations of static and dynamic hyperpolarizabilities of small Si(3n+1)H(6n+3) (n=0,1,2) clusters which mimic Si(111) surfaces with dangling bond defects. The results indicate that the first hyperpolarizability tensor components of Si(3n+1)H(6n+3) have an ordering compatible with the measurements of second harmonic generation in SiO2/Si(111) interfaces and, therefore, support the hypothesis that silicon surface defects with dangling bonds are responsible for this phenomenon. The results exhibit a strong dependence on the quality of basis set and exchange-correlation functional, showing that an appropriate set of diffuse functions is required for reliable predictions of the first hyperpolarizability of open-shell compounds.
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Affiliation(s)
- Zilvinas Rinkevicius
- Department of Theoretical Chemistry, Royal Institute of Technology, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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