scholarly journals Understanding intermolecular interactions of large systems in ground state and excited state by using density functional based tight binding methods

2021 ◽  
Vol 154 (19) ◽  
pp. 194106
Author(s):  
Yuan Xu ◽  
Ran Friedman ◽  
Wei Wu ◽  
Peifeng Su

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-84
Author(s):  
Y. Syetov

Structure of molecular units is calculated for the periodic model corresponding to the crystal lattice of 2-(2'-hydroxyphenyl)benzothiazole with vacancies. 2-(2' -hydroxyphenyl)benzothiazole is a luminescent organic substance undergoing excited state intramolecular proton transfer. The calculations are performed with density-functional based tight-binding methods usding Van der Waals interaction empirical correction. It is found that the dihedral angles formed by benzothiazole and phenol parts of the molecules deviate in the vicinity of the vacancy. The vacancy provides enough space for non-planar conformation of the molecules in the ground state. At the same time the increase in energy of the periodic structure with the vacancies caused by appearance of the non-planar conformation is larger than the corresponding increase in the isolated molecule.



2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lili Liu ◽  
Shimou Chen

The geometries and electronic properties of divacancies with two kinds of structures were investigated by the first-principles (U) B3LYP/STO-3G and self-consistent-charge density-functional tight-binding (SCC-DFTB) method. Different from the reported understanding of these properties of divacancy in graphene and carbon nanotubes, it was found that the ground state of the divacancy with 585 configurations is closed shell singlet state and much more stable than the 555777 configurations in the smaller graphene flakes, which is preferred to triplet state. But when the sizes of the graphene become larger, the 555777 defects will be more stable. In addition, the spin density properties of the both configurations are studied in this paper.



2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshio Nishimoto

In this study, excited-state free energies and geometries were efficiently evaluated using a linear-response time-dependent long-range corrected density-functional tight-binding method integrated with the polarizable continuum model (TD-LC-DFTB/PCM). Although the LC-DFTB method required the evaluation of the exchange-type term, which was moderately computationally expensive, a single evaluation of the excited-state gradient for a system consisting of more than 1000 atoms in a vacuum was completed within 30 minutes using one CPU core. Benchmark calculations were conducted for 3-hydroxy avone, which exhibits dual emission: the absorption and enol-form emission wavelengths calculated by TD-LC-DFTB/PCM agreed well with those predicted based on density functional theory using a long-range corrected functional; however, there was a large error in the predicted keto-form emission wavelength. Further benchmark calculations for more than 20 molecules indicated that the conventional TD-DFTB method underestimated the absorption and 0-0 transition energies compared with those which were measured experimentally while the TD-LC-DFTB method systematically overestimated these metrics. Nevertheless, the agreement of the results of the TD-LC-DFTB method with those obtained by the CAM-B3LYP method demonstrates the potential of the TD-LC-DFTB/PCM method. Moreover, changing the range-separation parameter to 0.15 minimized this deviation.<br>



2020 ◽  
Vol 98 (8) ◽  
pp. 761-769
Author(s):  
Omnath Patil ◽  
P.K. Ingalagondi ◽  
Shivaraj Gounhalli ◽  
S.M. Hanagodimath

The absorption and fluorescence emission spectra of a newly synthesized laser grade coumarin dye, 1-((4-methoxyphenoxy) methyl)-3H-benzo[f]chromen-3-one (4-MPMBC), have been recorded in various solvents having different polarities. The spectrum peak was found to shift toward a higher wavelength with an increase in the solvent polarity. The dipole moments of the ground state (μg) and excited state (μe) were estimated using the Lippert, Bakshiev, and Kawski–Chamma–Viallet equations. The μe values were found to be greater than the μg values in all solvents, indicating that the dye is more polar in the excited state than in the ground state. The absorption maximum and emission maximum energies, ground- and excited-state dipole moments, and HOMO–LUMO energy gaps were estimated using Gaussian 16W. These have been compared with the experimental results. The estimated chemical hardness of the dye molecule indicates the soft nature in all of the solvents. The reactive centers such as nucleophilic and electrophilic sites were identified along with contour action using electrostatic potential three-dimensional map density functional theory analysis. The fluorescence quenching has been studied in solvents of varying polarities using aniline as a quencher. The quenching process was found to follow the Stern–Volmer equation and was studied by considering the role of diffusion. In all solvents, the probability of quenching per encounter (p) was found to be less than unity. The activation energy for diffusion and activation energy for quenching were estimated using the values of p.



RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (110) ◽  
pp. 108404-108410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Y. Pan ◽  
J. Huang ◽  
Z. M. Wang ◽  
S. T. Zhang ◽  
D. W. Yu ◽  
...  

The ωB97X was the most reliable functional for the accurate description of HLCT state at ground state and excited state.





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