New Materials Design.Free-Base Porphyrin and Its Meso-Tetrahalogenated Derivatives

	MSM 99 Technical Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems Chapter 3: Computational Materials
	New Materials Design.Free-Base Porphyrin and Its Meso-Tetrahalogenated Derivatives
Authors:	K.A. Nguyen and R. Pachter
Affilation:	Air Force Research Laboratory, US
Pages:	57 - 60
Keywords:	modeling and simulation of optical limiting materials, ab initio electronic structure, porphyrin derivatives, electronic spectra, molecular structures
Abstract:	Ab initio electronic structure theory has been applied to predict the structures and electronic spectra of free-base porphyrin (PH2) and its meso-tetrahalogenated derivatives (m-PX8H2, X = F, Cl, Br). Structures, singlet-triplet energy gaps, and electronic spectra are predicted using the B3LYP method in conjunction with the 6-31G(d) basis set and the effective core potentials/basis sets of Stevens et al. Minimum energy structures of the lowest triplet excited states (T1) were found to retain D2h symmetry with stretched Cb-Cb and Cb-Cm bond distances. We found that halogenation at the four meso-positions significantly changes the ground state excitation energies and the singlet-triplet gap for the free-base parent compound.
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ISBN:	0-9666135-4-6
Pages:	697
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