Relationship between singlet–triplet excitation energies and the Kohn–Sham orbitals obtained with potentials that exhibit a wrong asymptotic behavior
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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.
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