Benchmarking excited-state calculations using exciton properties

SA Mewes, F Plasser, A Krylov… - Journal of Chemical …, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Benchmarking is an every-day task in computational chemistry, yet making meaningful
comparisons between different methods is nontrivial. Benchmark studies often focus on the …

Color tuning in bovine rhodopsin through polarizable embedding

D Di Prima, P Reinholdt, J Kongsted - The Journal of Physical …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Bovine rhodopsin is among the most studied proteins in the rhodopsin family. Its primary
activation mechanism is the photoisomerization of 11-cis retinal, triggered by the absorption …

Entanglement entropy of electronic excitations

F Plasser - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2016‏ - pubs.aip.org
A new perspective into correlation effects in electronically excited states is provided through
quantum information theory. The entanglement between the electron and hole …

Relationship between excited state lifetime and isomerization quantum yield in animal rhodopsins: Beyond the one-dimensional Landau–Zener model

MMT El-Tahawy, A Nenov, O Weingart… - The journal of …, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
We show that the speed of the chromophore photoisomerization of animal rhodopsins is not
a relevant control knob for their light sensitivity. This result is at odds with the momentum …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of retinal configuration on the protein–chromophore interactions in bistable jum** spider rhodopsin-1

JR Church, JMH Olsen, I Schapiro - Molecules, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Bistable rhodopsins have two stable forms that can be interconverted by light. Due to their
ability to act as photoswitches, these proteins are considered as ideal candidates for …

Predicting the substituent effects in the optical and electrochemical properties of N,N′-substituted isoindigos

FL Kiss, BP Corbet, NA Simeth, BL Feringa… - Photochemical & …, 2021‏ - Springer
Isoindigo, the structural isomer of the well-known dye indigo, has seen a major revival
recently because of the increasing interest of its use as a potential drug core structure and …

CpHMD-then-QM/MM identification of the amino acids responsible for the anabaena sensory rhodopsin pH-dependent electronic absorption spectrum

E Pieri, V Ledentu, M Sahlin, F Dehez… - Journal of Chemical …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin (ASR), a microbial photoactive protein featuring the retinal
chromophore in two different conformations, exhibits a pH-dependent electronic absorption …

Seeking for Optimal Excited States in Photoinduced Electron-Transfer Processes─ The Case Study of Brooker's Merocyanine

Y Danten, C Gatti, C Frayret - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Material design enters an era in which control of electrons in atoms, molecules, and
materials is an essential property to be predicted and thoroughly understood in view of …

Modeling electron transfers using quasidiabatic hartree–fock states

KT Jensen, RL Benson, S Cardamone… - Journal of Chemical …, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Electron transfer processes are ubiquitous in chemistry and of great importance in many
systems of biological and commercial interest. The ab initio description of these processes …

Counterion-controlled spectral tuning of the protonated Schiff-base retinal

Y Toker, J Langeland, E Gruber, C Kjær, SB Nielsen… - Physical Review A, 2018‏ - APS
Color vision is based on the ability of different opsin proteins to tune the absorption band of
their chromophore, the retinal protonated Schiff base (RPSB). Two main mechanisms …