A new computational protocol relying on the use of electrostatic embedding, derived from QM/QM' ONIOM calculations, to simulate the effect of the crystalline environment on the emission spectra of molecular crystals is here applied to the beta-form of salicylidene aniline (SA). The first singlet excited states (S-1) of the SA cis-keto and trans-keto conformers, surrounded by a cluster of other molecules representing the crystalline structure, were optimized by using a QM/QM' ONIOM approach with and without electronic embedding. The model system consisting of the central salicylidene aniline molecule was treated at the DFT level by using either the B3LYP, PBE0, or the CAM-B3LYP functional, whereas the real system was treated at the HF level. The CAM-B3LYP/HF level of theory provides emission energies in good agreement with experiment with differences of 220/232 nm (cis-keto form) and 28/214 nm (trans-keto form), respectively, whereas notably larger differences are obtained using global hybrids. Though such differences on the optical properties arise from the density functional choice, the contribution of the electronic embedding is rather independent of the functional used. This plays in favor of a more general applicability of the present protocol to other crystalline molecular systems.

Modeling emission features of salicylidene aniline molecular crystals: A QM/QM' approach / Presti, Davide; Labat, Frédéric; Pedone, Alfonso; Frisch, Michael J.; Hratchian, Hrant P.; Ciofini, Ilaria; Menziani, Maria Cristina; Adamo, Carlo. - In: JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY. - ISSN 0192-8651. - ELETTRONICO. - 37(9):(2016), pp. 861-870. [10.1002/jcc.24282]

Modeling emission features of salicylidene aniline molecular crystals: A QM/QM' approach

PRESTI, DAVIDE;PEDONE, Alfonso;MENZIANI, Maria Cristina;
2016

Abstract

A new computational protocol relying on the use of electrostatic embedding, derived from QM/QM' ONIOM calculations, to simulate the effect of the crystalline environment on the emission spectra of molecular crystals is here applied to the beta-form of salicylidene aniline (SA). The first singlet excited states (S-1) of the SA cis-keto and trans-keto conformers, surrounded by a cluster of other molecules representing the crystalline structure, were optimized by using a QM/QM' ONIOM approach with and without electronic embedding. The model system consisting of the central salicylidene aniline molecule was treated at the DFT level by using either the B3LYP, PBE0, or the CAM-B3LYP functional, whereas the real system was treated at the HF level. The CAM-B3LYP/HF level of theory provides emission energies in good agreement with experiment with differences of 220/232 nm (cis-keto form) and 28/214 nm (trans-keto form), respectively, whereas notably larger differences are obtained using global hybrids. Though such differences on the optical properties arise from the density functional choice, the contribution of the electronic embedding is rather independent of the functional used. This plays in favor of a more general applicability of the present protocol to other crystalline molecular systems.
2016
5-gen-2016
37(9)
861
870
Modeling emission features of salicylidene aniline molecular crystals: A QM/QM' approach / Presti, Davide; Labat, Frédéric; Pedone, Alfonso; Frisch, Michael J.; Hratchian, Hrant P.; Ciofini, Ilaria; Menziani, Maria Cristina; Adamo, Carlo. - In: JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY. - ISSN 0192-8651. - ELETTRONICO. - 37(9):(2016), pp. 861-870. [10.1002/jcc.24282]
Presti, Davide; Labat, Frédéric; Pedone, Alfonso; Frisch, Michael J.; Hratchian, Hrant P.; Ciofini, Ilaria; Menziani, Maria Cristina; Adamo, Carlo
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