Assessing challenging intra- and inter-molecular charge-transfer excitations energies with double-hybrid density functionals

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of computational chemistry. - 1984. - 42(2021), 14 vom: 30. Mai, Seite 970-981
1. Verfasser: Brémond, Éric (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Ottochian, Alistar, Pérez-Jiménez, Ángel José, Ciofini, Ilaria, Scalmani, Giovanni, Frisch, Michael J, Sancho-García, Juan Carlos, Adamo, Carlo
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2021
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of computational chemistry
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't TD-DFT charge-transfer excitation energies double-hybrid density functional weakly bound complexes
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Zusammenfassung:© 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
We investigate the performance of a set of recently introduced range-separated double-hybrid functionals, namely ωB2-PLYP, ωB2GP-PLYP, RSX-0DH, and RSX-QIDH models for hard-to-calculate excitation energies. We compare with the parent (B2-PLYP, B2GP-PLYP, PBE0-DH, and PBE-QIDH) and other (DSD-PBEP86) double-hybrid models as well as with some of the most widely employed hybrid functionals (B3LYP, PBE0, M06-2X, and ωB97X). For this purpose, we select a number of medium-sized intra- and inter-molecular charge-transfer excitations, which are known to be challenging to calculate using time-dependent density-functional theory (TD-DFT) and for which accurate reference values are available. We assess whether the high accuracy shown by the newest double-hybrid models is also confirmed for those cases too. We find that asymptotically corrected double-hybrid models yield a superior performance, especially for the inter-molecular charge-transfer excitation energies, as compared to standard double-hybrid models. Overall, the PBE-QIDH and its corresponding range-separated RSX-QIDH functional are recommended for general-purpose TD-DFT applications, depending on whether long-range effects are expected to play a significant role
Beschreibung:Date Completed 24.09.2021
Date Revised 24.09.2021
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1096-987X
DOI:10.1002/jcc.26517