Benchmarking of Density Functionals for

Autor: Daniel M, Adrion, Danil S, Kaliakin, Patrick, Neal, Steven A, Lopez
Rok vydání: 2021
Zdroj: The journal of physical chemistry. A. 125(29)
ISSN: 1520-5215
Popis: Molecular photoswitches use light to interconvert from a thermodynamically stable isomer into a metastable isomer. Photoswitches have been used in photopharmacology, catalysis, and molecular solar thermal (MOST) materials because of their spatiotemporal activation. Visible-light-absorbing photoswitches are especially attractive because low-energy light minimizes undesired photochemical reactions and enables biological applications. Ideal photoswitches require well-separated absorption spectra for both isomers and long-lived metastable states. However, predicting thermal half-lives with density functional theory is difficult because it requires locating transition structures and chosing an accurate model chemistry. We now report
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