Proton-coupled electron transfer: Moving together and charging forward

S Hammes-Schiffer - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015 - ACS Publications
Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) is ubiquitous throughout chemistry and biology.
This Perspective discusses recent advances and current challenges in the field of PCET …

Benchmarking two-photon absorption cross sections: performance of CC2 and CAM-B3LYP

MTP Beerepoot, DH Friese, NH List… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
We investigate the performance of CC2 and TDDFT/CAM-B3LYP for the calculation of two-
photon absorption (TPA) strengths and cross sections and contrast our results to a recent …

Electronic couplings for molecular charge transfer: Benchmarking CDFT, FODFT, and FODFTB against high-level ab initio calculations

A Kubas, F Hoffmann, A Heck, H Oberhofer… - The Journal of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We introduce a database (HAB11) of electronic coupling matrix elements (H ab) for electron
transfer in 11 π-conjugated organic homo-dimer cations. High-level ab inito calculations at …

Protein matrix control of reaction center excitation in photosystem II

A Sirohiwal, F Neese, DA Pantazis - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Photosystem II (PSII) is a multisubunit pigment–protein complex that uses light-induced
charge separation to power oxygenic photosynthesis. Its reaction center chromophores …

Polarizable density embedding: A new QM/QM/MM-based computational strategy

JMH Olsen, C Steinmann, K Ruud… - The Journal of Physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We present a new QM/QM/MM-based model for calculating molecular properties and excited
states of solute–solvent systems. We denote this new approach the polarizable density …

Quantum mechanics/fluctuating charge protocol to compute solvatochromic shifts

M Ambrosetti, S Skoko, T Giovannini… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Despite the potentialities of the quantum mechanics (QM)/fluctuating charge (FQ) approach
to model the spectral properties of solvated systems, its extensive use has been hampered …

Cost-effective simulations of vibrationally-resolved absorption spectra of fluorophores with machine-learning-based inhomogeneous broadening

EF Petrusevich, MHE Bousquet… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The results of electronic and vibrational structure simulations are an invaluable support for
interpreting experimental absorption/emission spectra, which stimulates the development of …

Toward Accurate Two-Photon Absorption Spectrum Simulations: Exploring the Landscape beyond the Generalized Gradient Approximation

K Ahmadzadeh, X Li, Z Rinkevicius… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In this Letter, we present a pioneering analysis of the density functional approximations
(DFAs) beyond the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) for predicting two-photon …

Electronic absorption spectra and solvatochromic shifts by the vertical excitation model: Solvated clusters and molecular dynamics sampling

AV Marenich, CJ Cramer… - The Journal of Physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A physically realistic treatment of solvatochromic shifts in liquid-phase electronic absorption
spectra requires a proper account for various short-and long-range equilibrium and …

How Does Bending the Uranyl Unit Influence Its Spectroscopy and Luminescence?

H Oher, ASP Gomes, RE Wilson, DD Schnaars… - Inorganic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Bent uranyl complexes can be formed with chloride ligands and 1, 10-phenanthroline (phen)
ligands bound to the equatorial and axial planes of the uranyl (VI) moiety, as revealed by the …