Flavonoids are polyphenolic plant secondary metabolites with biological properties including Alzheimer's disease (AD) inhibition activities. Numerous studies have been conducted on naturally occurring flavonoids modified to obtain effective drugs for the management of AD. In this study, DFT/B3PW91, TD-DFT/B3LYP methods target molecule hispidulin 4′,5,7-Trihydroxy-6-Methoxyflavone (THMF) and LAN...

We report the implementation and evaluation of a perturbative, density-based correction scheme for vertical excitation energies calculated in the framework of a polarizable continuum model (PCM). Because the proposed first-order correction terms depend solely on the zeroth-order excited-state density, a transfer of the approach to any configuration interaction-type excited-state method is strai...

Time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) and single-excitation configuration interaction (CIS) calculations on the electronic excitations in pyrrole have been performed to examine the reliability of these first-principles electronic structure methods in predicting electronic excitation spectra of pyrrole-containing compounds. Both the TD-DFT and CIS calculations led to satisfactory res...

Time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) is applied to the UV-vis absorption and circular dichroism (CD) spectra of a series of transition metals (M=Ru, Zn, Fe) complexed with an enantiopure hemicage ligand, (-)-(5R,5'R,5' 'R,7R,7'R,7' 'R,8S,8'S,8' 'S)-8,8',8' '-[(2,4,6-trimethyl-1,3,5-benzenetriyl)tris(methylene)]tris[5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-6,6-dimethyl-3-(2-pyridinyl)-5,7-methanoisoquino...

The electronic spectrum of alternant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) includes two singlet excited states that are often denoted (1)La and (1)Lb. Time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) affords reasonable excitation energies for the (1)Lb state in such molecules, but often severely underestimates (1)La excitation energies and fails to reproduce observed trends in the (1)La exci...

We have investigated the dependence of the static first hyperpolarizability on the bond-length alternation (BLA) parameter. Our analysis indicates that the validity of the first hyperpolarizability/BLA parameter relationship is restricted to the no-field, vacuum, limit, while it successively breaks down along with increasing polarity of a surrounding medium, becoming invalid, for instance, in a...

In the continuous quest for improving TD-DFT methodologies as a tool to predict the photophysical features of solvated chromophores, we investigate two model regioisomers based on the 1,2,3-triazole moiety. Starting from their experimental absorption and emission spectra, key energy differences highlighting the main trends between the two isomers are extracted and used to gauge the accuracy of ...

Naphthalene diimides (NDIs) form emissive ground-state charge-transfer (CT) complexes with various electron rich aromatic solvents like benzene, o-xylene and mesitylene. TD-DFT calculation of the complexes suggests CT interaction and accounts for the observed ground-state changes.