Electronic Structure Underlying Colour Differences Between Diarylmethane Dyes and their Azomethine Analogues

2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seth Olsen

We show that multireference perturbation theory based on a four-electron, three-orbital state-averaged complete active space self-consistent field model can reproduce the shift in colour between diarylmethane dyes and their corresponding azomethine analogues. We relate the azomethine shift to changes in the electronic structure, through an examination of the relative changes in the state-averaged one-electron Hamiltonian (Fock) and surprisal matrices that characterise the analogous self-consistent field solutions.

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 12356-12364
Author(s):  
Martina Zámečníková ◽  
Dana Nachtigallová

The role of the bridging water molecules has been studied during the excited state photodynamics of a N-methylformamide dimer in complex with water molecules employing the complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) and CAS perturbation theory (CASPT2) methods.


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