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T1 Vibronic Spectra of π-Conjugated Systems with a Multitude of Coupled States: A Protocol Based on Linear Vibronic Coupling Models and Quantum Dynamics Tested on Hexahelicene
A1 Aranda, Daniel
A1 Santoro, Fabrizio
K1 Electrónica - Espectros
AB Hexahelicene is a prototype of an extended π-conjugated system with axial chirality. Its absorption (ABS) and electronic circular dichroism (ECD) spectra show vibronic features and strong nonadiabatic effects, challenging currently available computational methods. Here, we compute the nonadiabatic ABS and ECD vibronic spectra of hexahelicene in the full energy range, covering ∼2 eV and 14–18 coupled electronic states, including all of the relevant nuclear coordinates. To this end, we exploit a recently proposed protocol that uses time-dependent density functional theory to parameterize linear vibronic coupling models comprising several electronic states. Spectra are computed through quantum dynamical propagations with multiconfigurational time-dependent Hartree methods. Our results nicely reproduce the experimental spectra providing an assignment of the main observed bands. On the contrary, we document that the application of the Herzberg–Teller intensity-borrowing theory leads to large artifacts. The proposed approach is of general applicability for rigid systems and represents a viable tool for studying the photophysical properties of π-conjugated systems characterized by a dense manifold of interacting electronic states.
PB ACS Publications
YR 2021
FD 2021-02-19
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37057
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37057
LA eng
NO Daniel Aranda and Fabrizio Santoro. Vibronic Spectra of π-Conjugated Systems with a Multitude of Coupled States: A Protocol Based on Linear Vibronic Coupling Models and Quantum Dynamics Tested on Hexahelicene. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2021 17 (3), 1691-1700 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00022
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026