Nguyen K.A., Pachter R.
Air Force Research Laboratory, US
Keywords: ab initio electronic structure, electronic spectra, modeling, molecular structures, porphyrin derivatives, simulation of optical limiting materials
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.
Journal: TechConnect Briefs
Volume: Technical Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems
Published: April 19, 1999
Pages: 57 - 60
Industry sector: Advanced Materials & Manufacturing
Topic: Informatics, Modeling & Simulation
ISBN: 0-9666135-4-6