We report how closely the Kohn-Sham highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) eigenvalues of 11 density functional theory (DFT) functionals, respectively, correspond to the negative ionization potentials (-IPs) and electron affinities (EAs) of a test set of molecules. We also report how accurately the HOMO-LUMO gaps of these methods predict the low...

In this work, the effects of As-doped on the adsorption of oxygen gas on the outer and inner surface ofboron nitride nanotube (BNNTs) is investigated. The structural parameters, quantum properties involving:bond length, bond angle, HOMO-LUMO orbital, gapenergy, electron affinity, electronegativity, chemicalpotential, global hardness, global softness and NMR parameters of BNNTs are calculated at...

The research in the short-chain organic -conjugated molecules has become one of the most interesting topics in the fields of chemistry. These compounds have become the most promising materials for the optoelectronic device technology. The use of low band gap materials is a viable method for better harvesting of the solar spectrum and increasing its efficiency. The control of the band gap of th...

A series of variable band-gap donor–acceptor–donor (DAD) chromophores capped with platinum(II) acetylide units has been synthesized and fully characterized by electrochemical and photophysical methods, with particular emphasis placed on probing triplet excited state properties. A counter-intuitive trend of increasing fluorescence quantum efficiency and lifetime with decreasing excited state ene...

The geometric and electronic structures of all-trans polyacetylene (PA) molecule in neutral, cationic, and anionic states have been studied theoretically by density functional theory method at the B3LYP/6-31+G* level. The results show that both the geometric and electronic structures of the PA molecule are sensitive to the external electric field (EF). For neutral PA molecule, with the increase...

Metal–dithiolene complexes form very attractive categories of molecular metals and superconductors. They can have various oxidation states and can range from electron acceptors to donors. The first observation of metallic behavior in crystalline metal– dithiolene complexes was reported for Li0.75[Pt(mnt)2]?2H2O [mnt~maleonitriledithiolate; Scheme 1] by Underhill et al. in 1981. The conduction p...

In the present work, the structural and electronic properties, and conductivity of (5,5) and (6,6) Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes in the ground state have done by using the Hartree-Fock and density functional theory DFT-B3LYP/6-31G* level. Delocalization of charge density between the bonding or lone pair and antibonding orbitals calculated by NBO (natural bond orbital) analysis. These methods a...