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 Stev...

The geometries and energies of the electronic states of phenyloxenium ion 1 (Ph-O(+)) were computed at the multireference CASPT2/pVTZ level of theory. Despite being isoelectronic to phenylnitrene 4, the phenyloxenium ion 1 has remarkably different energetic orderings of its electronic states. The closed-shell singlet configuration ((1)A(1)) is the ground state of the phenyloxenium ion 1, with a...

the effects of halogens; fluorine, chlorine and bromine, on the stability and multiplicity of phenylcarbenes / silylenes/ germylenes structures are compared and contrasted at b3lyp/6-311++g**//b3lyp/6-31+g* level. the singlet-triplet energy gaps, δes-t , values for all the above speciesincrease through fluorinated up, δes-ts and δehomo–lumos support the stability of the singlet statesinspite of...

Conformational dependence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in flexible Paternò-Büchi (PB) diradicals has been studied with high-level ab initio methods using both (i) one-electron spin-orbit Hamiltonian with parametrized (effective) nuclear charges in conjunction with a state-averaged MCSCF wave function as implemented by Robb in Gaussian 98 and (ii) complete one- and two-electron SOC with a fully ...

Density functional theory (UB3LYP/6-31G(d,p)) was used to determine substituent effects on the singlet-triplet-state energy gap for 21 meta-substituted phenylnitrenium ions. It was found that strongly electron-donating substituents stabilize the triplet state relative to the singlet state. With sufficiently strong meta electron donors (e.g., m,m'-diaminophenylnitrenium ion) the triplet is predi...

Using single- and multireference approaches we have examined many of the low-lying electronic states of oxo-Mn(salen), several of which have not been explored previously. Large complete-active-space self-consistent-field (CASSCF) computations have been performed in pursuit of an accurate ordering for the lowest several electronic states. Basis set and relativistic effects have also been conside...

The geometries and relative stabilities of the singlet and triplet states of phenyl- (Cs), diphenyl- (C2), 1-naphthyl- (Cs), di(1-naphthyl)- (C2), and 9-anthryl-substituted (Cs) carbenes were investigated at the B3LYP/6-311+G(d,p) + ZPVE level of density functional theory. The singlet-triplet energy separations (DeltaEST), 2.7, 2.9, 3.4, 3.7, and 5.7 kcal/mol, respectively, after including an e...

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Excitement in the area of plasmonics stems from the ability to detect processes that are otherwise undetectable. Collective electron oscillations at metal surfaces experience strong spatial localization, which results in extremely intense and localized electromagnetic fields. This phenomenon is at the heart of all surface-enhanced spectroscopic processes. The intense local field can relax sever...