Quantum chemical calculation of excited states of flavin-related molecules

Neiss, Christian and Saalfrank, Peter and Parac, Maja and Grimme, Stefan (2003) Quantum chemical calculation of excited states of flavin-related molecules. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A, 107 (1). pp. 140-147. ISSN 1089-5639

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Abstract

The performance of various methods of various quantum mechanical methods for the calculation of lowlying singlet and triplet excited states of biologically relevant species related to flavins is critically examined. In particular, configuration interaction singles (CIS), time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT), and the recently proposed multireference configuration interaction DFT method (DFT/MRCI) [Grimme, S.; Waletzke, M. J. Chem. Phys. 1999, 111, 5645] are compared. For the DFT-based methods, various hybrid exchange-correlation functionals are used. For the "test molecule" uracil, it is found that CIS does not give quantitatively accurate energies even in conjunction with large basis sets including diffuse functions. In contrast TD-DFT(B3LYP) and DFT/MRCI produce reasonably accurate results even with medium-sized basis sets such as 6-31G*. Following these test calculations, the absorption energies of the lumiflavin molecule in its ground (i.e., So --> S-n) and lowest triplet state (i.e., T-1 --> T-n) are investigated. The nature of the low-lying excited states is discussed, and the results are compared to experiment. Finally, the effect of surrounding water molecules and of geometrical distortions on the absorption spectrum of flavin-type species is discussed on the basis of model calculations.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: TOTALLY OPTIMIZED GEOMETRIES; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY; BASIS-SETS; CONFIGURATION-INTERACTION; SPECTRA; DERIVATIVES; RI-MP2;
Subjects: 500 Science > 540 Chemistry & allied sciences
Divisions: Chemistry and Pharmacy > Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 25 Aug 2021 10:20
Last Modified: 25 Aug 2021 10:20
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/39362

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