The TDDFT Excitation Energies of the BODIPYs; The DFT and TDDFT Challenge Continues

Autor: Adrien Schlachter, Alexandre Fleury, Kevin Tanner, Armand Soldera, Benoit Habermeyer, Roger Guilard, Pierre D. Harvey
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Molecules, Vol 26, Iss 6, p 1780 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1420-3049
DOI: 10.3390/molecules26061780
Popis: The derivatives of 4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene (BODIPY) are pivotal ingredients for a large number of functional, stimuli-responsive materials and therapeutic molecules based on their photophysical properties, and there is a urgent need to understand and predict their optical traits prior to investing a large amount of resources in preparing them. Density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TDDFT) computations were performed to calculate the excitation energies of the lowest-energy singlet excited state of a large series of common BODIPY derivatives employing various functional aiming at the best possible combination providing the least deviations from the experimental values. Using the common “fudge” correction, a series of combinations was investigated, and a methodology is proposed offering equal or better performances than what is reported in the literature.
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