Excited states of ortho-nitrobenzaldehyde as a challenging case for single- and multi-reference electronic structure theory

© 2023 The Authors. Journal of Computational Chemistry published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of computational chemistry. - 1984. - 44(2023), 14 vom: 30. Mai, Seite 1381-1394
1. Verfasser: Vörös, Dóra (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Mai, Sebastian
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of computational chemistry
Schlagworte:Journal Article UV/Vis absorption spectroscopy excited states multireference calculations nitro-aromatic compounds single-reference calculations
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520 |a We present a large set of vertical excitation calculations for the ortho-nitrobenzaldehyde (oNBA) molecule, which exhibits a very challenging excited-state electronic structure like other nitroaromatic compounds. The single-reference methods produce mostly consistent results up to about 5.5 eV. By contrast, the CAS second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2) results depend sensitively on the employed parameters. At the CAS self-consistent field level, the energies of the bright ππ * states are strongly overestimated while doubly excited states appear too low and mix with these ππ * states. This mixing hampers the CASPT2 step, leading to inconsistent results. Only by increasing the number of states in the state-averaging step to about 40-to cover all bright ππ * states embedded in the double excitations-and employing extended multistate CASPT2 could CASPT2 results consistent with experiment be obtained. We assign the four bands in the molecule's spectrum: The weakest band at 3.7 eV arises from the n NO 2 π * states, the second one at 4.4 eV from the ππ * ( L b ) state, the shoulder at 5.2 eV from the ππ * ( L a ) state, and the maximum at 5.7 eV from the ππ * ( B a / B b ) states. We also highlight the importance of modern wave function analysis techniques in elucidating the absorption spectrum of challenging molecules 
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