DFT/MRCI calculations on the excited states of porphyrin, hydroporphyrins, tetrazaporphyrins and metalloporphyrins

2001 ◽  
Vol 05 (03) ◽  
pp. 225-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREAS B. J. PARUSEL ◽  
STEFAN GRIMME

A combination of density functional theory and multi-reference configuration interaction methods (DFT/MRCI) has been applied to the calculation of electronic absorption spectra in a series of porphyrin-type molecules. The calculated excitation energies and oscillator strengths for free-base porphyrin ( PH 2) are in excellent agreement with experiment for both lower and higher excited states which are characterized by a significant contribution of double excitations (>20%). The 41 B 2 u , 41 B 3 u , and 51 B 2 u states are assigned to the L-band and the 71 B 3 u state to the M-band. The results for the hydroporphyrins chlorin ( CH 2) and bacteriochlorin ( BH 2) are in agreement with the experimentally observed increase in intensity for the Q-bands relative to PH 2. For BH 2 we predict a red shift of the Q x -band (0.2 eV) and a blue shift of the B-band (0.5–0.7 eV) in comparison to both PH 2 and CH 2. For porphyrazine ( PzH 2) and the commercial pigment phthalocyanine ( PcH 2) the calculated oscillator strengths of the Q- and B-bands are of comparable size explaining the intense color of PcH 2. For the metalloporphyrins with magnesium ( PMg ) and zinc ( PZn ), the x- and y-polarized components of the Q- and B-bands collapse, due to the higher D4 h symmetry of the molecules. The calculations reproduce the slight, experimentally observed increase in the oscillator strength of the Q-band and the decrease for the B-band. These effects are ascribed to the electropositive nature of the metals relative to hydrogen. Except for the Q-bands, which are adequately described by the 'four-orbital model,' it is essential to account for excitations outside the four frontier orbitals as well as double and triple excitations for accurate reproduction of experimental data. We compare our results both with experiment and, where available, recent first-principle SAC-CI, MRMP, and TDDFT calculations.

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (44) ◽  
pp. 30089-30096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie J. Bao ◽  
Laura Gagliardi ◽  
Donald G. Truhlar

MC-PDFT is more accurate than CR-EOM-CCSD(T) or TDDFT when averaged over the first four adiabatic excitation energies of CN.


2005 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 265-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUSUMU YANAGISAWA ◽  
TAKAO TSUNEDA ◽  
KIMIHIKO HIRAO

We investigated the electron configurations that are dominant in excited states of molecules in time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). By taking advantage of the discussion on off-diagonal elements in the TDDFT response matrix (Appel et al., Phys Rev Lett, 90, 043005, 2003), we can pick up electron transitions that contribute to an excitation of interest by making use of the diagonal elements of the TDDFT matrix. We can obtain approximate excitation energies by calculating a TDDFT submatrix, which is contracted for a list of collected transitions. This contracted TDDFT was applied to the calculation of excitation energies of the CO molecule adsorbing Pt 10 cluster and some prototype small molecules. Calculated results showed that a TDDFT excitation energy is dominated by a few electron configurations, unless severe degeneracy is involved.


2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dapeng Yang ◽  
Yonggang Yang ◽  
Yufang Liu

AbstractThe excited states of cis-trans formic acid dimer and its monomers have been investigated by time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) method. The formation of intermolecular hydrogen bonds O1-H1...O2=C2 and C2-H2...O4=C1 induces bond length lengthening of the groups related to the hydrogen bond, while that of the C2-H2 group is shortened. It is demonstrated that the red-shift hydrogen bond O1-H1...O2=C2 and blue-shift hydrogen bond C2-H2...O4=C1 are both weakened when excited to the S1 state. Moreover, it is found that the groups related to the formation of red-shift hydrogen bond O1-H1...O2=C2 are both strengthened in the S1 state, while the groups related to the blue-shift hydrogen bond C2-H2...O4=C1 are both weakened. This will provide information for the photochemistry and photophysical study of red- and blue-shift hydrogen bond.


Open Physics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 621-627
Author(s):  
Jianfang Cao ◽  
Hongmei Wu ◽  
Yue Zheng ◽  
Fangyuan Nie ◽  
Ming Li ◽  
...  

AbstractThe solute–solvent interactions of 4-nitro-1,8-naphthalimide (4NNI) as a hydrogen bond acceptor in hydrogen donating methanol (MeOH) solvent in electronic excited states were investigated by means of the time-dependent density functional theory(TDDFT). We calculated the S0 state geometry optimizations, electronic transition energies and corresponding oscillation strengths of the low-lying electronically excited states for the isolated 4NNi and hydrogen-bonded 4NNi-(MeOH)1,4 complexes using the density functional theory (DFT) and TDDFT methods. The electronic excitation energies of the hydrogen-bonded complexes are correspondingly decreased compared to that of the isolated 4NNi, which revealed that the intermolecular hydrogen bond C=O···H–O and N=O···H–O in the hydrogen-bonded 4NNi-(MeOH)1,4 are strengthened in the electronically excited state. The calculated results are consistent with the mechanism that hydrogen bond strengthening will induce a redshift of the corresponding electronic spectra, while hydrogen bond weakening will cause a blueshift. Furthermore, we believe that the deduction we used to depict the trend of the hydrogen bond changes in excited states exists in many other fuorescent dyes in solution.


Author(s):  
C. Faber ◽  
P. Boulanger ◽  
C. Attaccalite ◽  
I. Duchemin ◽  
X. Blase

Many-body Green's function perturbation theories, such as the GW and Bethe–Salpeter formalisms, are starting to be routinely applied to study charged and neutral electronic excitations in molecular organic systems relevant to applications in photovoltaics, photochemistry or biology. In parallel, density functional theory and its time-dependent extensions significantly progressed along the line of range-separated hybrid functionals within the generalized Kohn–Sham formalism designed to provide correct excitation energies. We give an overview and compare these approaches with examples drawn from the study of gas phase organic systems such as fullerenes, porphyrins, bacteriochlorophylls or nucleobases molecules. The perspectives and challenges that many-body perturbation theory is facing, such as the role of self-consistency, the calculation of forces and potential energy surfaces in the excited states, or the development of embedding techniques specific to the GW and Bethe–Salpeter equation formalisms, are outlined.


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (05) ◽  
pp. 2050020
Author(s):  
Sidra Ghafoor ◽  
Asim Mansha ◽  
Sadia Asim ◽  
Muhammad Usman ◽  
Ameer Fawad Zahoor ◽  
...  

In the present work, we have studied the 2-hydroxy 2-methyl propiophenone (2H2MPP) theoretically as well as experimentally. The optimized molecular structure has been obtained by the density functional theory (DFT), second-order Moller–Plesset perturbation theory (MP2) and Hartree Fock (HF) in the gas phase as well as in different media like ethanol, DMSO and heptane. FT-IR and FT-Raman spectra were computed as well as recorded and fundamental vibrational wavenumbers were assigned. The electronic absorption spectra were calculated by employing the time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) to get the information about excitation energies, oscillator strength and excited state geometries in gas phase and in different solvent media. Chemical activity and chemical stability obtained by HOMO-LUMO studies using a HF/6-31[Formula: see text]G and MP2/6-311[Formula: see text]G calculations. The chemical interpretation of hyperconjugation interactions obtained by the Natural Bond Orbital (NBO) analysis. Moreover, electrostatic potential (ESP) calculations performed to get the visual representation of relative polarity of molecule. Thermodynamic parameters like enthalpy, entropy, heat capacity, and Gibbs free energy computed with varying temperature from 10[Formula: see text]K to 500[Formula: see text]K. The aim of the current investigation is to find out the quantum chemical properties of the title compound which show an active role in the pharmaceutical and printing industries.


Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 1545
Author(s):  
Yunwen Tao ◽  
Linyao Zhang ◽  
Wenli Zou ◽  
Elfi Kraka

Seventeen singlet excited states of ethylene have been calculated via time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) with the CAM-B3LYP functional and the geometries of 11 excited states were optimized successfully. The local vibrational mode theory was employed to examine the intrinsic C=C/C–H bond strengths and their change upon excitation. The natural transition orbital (NTO) analysis was used to further analyze the C=C/C–H bond strength change in excited states versus the ground state. For the first time, three excited states including πy′ → 3s, πy′ → 3py and πy′ → 3pz were identified with stronger C=C ethylene double bonds than in the ground state.


2018 ◽  
Vol 127 (1A) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Duong Tuan Quang

<p class="03Abstract">The density functional theory and time-dependent density functional theory methods were used for investigation of the excitation and emission properties of some fluorophores. The calculations were based on the optimized geometries of ground states and excited states at the B3LYP functional and LanL2DZ basis set. The results clarified the nature of the optical properties of the compounds and agreed well with the experimental data. The approximate values of excitation energies and emission energies of compounds were also identified. The calculated excitation energies were about 0.01 to 0.56 eV higher than experimental values. Meanwhile, the emission energies were from 0.34 to 0.89 eV higher than experimental values. These large errors occurred when there were great variations between the optimized geometries of ground state and excited states. They could be due to the presence of components of solvent in real solution that stabilized the excited states, leading to reduce the excitation and emission energies in the experiments.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 446
Author(s):  
Edison Rafael Jiménez ◽  
Manuel Caetano ◽  
Nelson Santiago ◽  
F. Javier Torres ◽  
Thibault Terencio ◽  
...  

Recently, several studies have demonstrated that diaminodicyanoquinone derivatives (DADQs) could present interesting fluorescence properties. Furthermore, some DADQs under the solid state are capable of showing quantum yields that can reach values of 90%. Besides, the diaminodiacyanoquinone core represents a versatile building block propense either to modification or integration into different systems to obtain and provide them unique photophysical features. Herein, we carried out a theoretical study on the fluorescence properties of three different diaminodicyanoquinodimethane systems. Therefore, time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) was used to obtain the values associated with the dipole moments, oscillator strengths, and the conformational energies between the ground and the first excited states of each molecule. The results suggest that only two of the three studied systems possess significant luminescent properties. In a further stage, the theoretical insights were confirmed by means of experimental measurements, which not only retrieved the photoluminescence of the DADQs, but also suggest a preliminary and promising antibacterial activity of these systems.


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