Abstract
A linear relationship was found between the singlet-triplet excitation energy and the energy difference presented by the Kohn-Sham frontier molecular orbitals, independently of the used exchange-correlation functional and of the basis set functions quality. The relationship was explored in three different situations: (a) when the number of carbons is increased in an all-trans acetylene family; (b) rotation of the trans-butadiene around the single bond; (c) dissociation process of the molecules H2 and FH. Additionally, it was found a strong relationship between the vertical singlet-triplet excitation energy obtained with the B3LYP and the multiconfiguration-self consistent methods.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 207-212 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Chemical Physics Letters |
| Volume | 419 |
| Issue number | 1-3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 15 2006 |
Funding
Financial support for A.V.M was provided by CONACYT, México, through the scholarship 179850, respectively. The Millennium Nucleus for Applied Quantum Mechanics project P02-004-F, and FONDECYT Grants 1050294 and 7010649 supported part of this work.