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Brémond É, Ottochian A, Pérez-Jiménez ÁJ, Ciofini I, Scalmani G, Frisch MJ, Sancho-García JC, Adamo C. Assessing challenging intra- and inter-molecular charge-transfer excitations energies with double-hybrid density functionals. J Comput Chem 2021; 42:970-981. [PMID: 33748983 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2021] [Accepted: 02/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
We investigate the performance of a set of recently introduced range-separated double-hybrid functionals, namely ωB2-PLYP, ωB2GP-PLYP, RSX-0DH, and RSX-QIDH models for hard-to-calculate excitation energies. We compare with the parent (B2-PLYP, B2GP-PLYP, PBE0-DH, and PBE-QIDH) and other (DSD-PBEP86) double-hybrid models as well as with some of the most widely employed hybrid functionals (B3LYP, PBE0, M06-2X, and ωB97X). For this purpose, we select a number of medium-sized intra- and inter-molecular charge-transfer excitations, which are known to be challenging to calculate using time-dependent density-functional theory (TD-DFT) and for which accurate reference values are available. We assess whether the high accuracy shown by the newest double-hybrid models is also confirmed for those cases too. We find that asymptotically corrected double-hybrid models yield a superior performance, especially for the inter-molecular charge-transfer excitation energies, as compared to standard double-hybrid models. Overall, the PBE-QIDH and its corresponding range-separated RSX-QIDH functional are recommended for general-purpose TD-DFT applications, depending on whether long-range effects are expected to play a significant role.
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Affiliation(s)
- Éric Brémond
- Université de Paris, ITODYS, CNRS, Paris, F-75006, France
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- Chimie ParisTech, PSL Research University, CNRS, Institute of Chemistry for Life and Health Sciences (i-CLeHS, Paris, France
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- Chimie ParisTech, PSL Research University, CNRS, Institute of Chemistry for Life and Health Sciences (i-CLeHS, Paris, France
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- Chimie ParisTech, PSL Research University, CNRS, Institute of Chemistry for Life and Health Sciences (i-CLeHS, Paris, France.,Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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Alipour M, Karimi N. Dissecting the accountability of parameterized and parameter-free single-hybrid and double-hybrid functionals for photophysical properties of TADF-based OLEDs. J Chem Phys 2017. [PMID: 28641443 DOI: 10.1063/1.4986777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
Abstract
Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) based on thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters are an attractive category of materials that have witnessed a booming development in recent years. In the present contribution, we scrutinize the accountability of parameterized and parameter-free single-hybrid (SH) and double-hybrid (DH) functionals through the two formalisms, full time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) and Tamm-Dancoff approximation (TDA), for the estimation of photophysical properties like absorption energy, emission energy, zero-zero transition energy, and singlet-triplet energy splitting of TADF molecules. According to our detailed analyses on the performance of SHs based on TD-DFT and TDA, the TDA-based parameter-free SH functionals, PBE0 and TPSS0, with one-third of exact-like exchange turned out to be the best performers in comparison to other functionals from various rungs to reproduce the experimental data of the benchmarked set. Such affordable SH approximations can thus be employed to predict and design the TADF molecules with low singlet-triplet energy gaps for OLED applications. From another perspective, considering this point that both the nonlocal exchange and correlation are essential for a more reliable description of large charge-transfer excited states, applicability of the functionals incorporating these terms, namely, parameterized and parameter-free DHs, has also been evaluated. Perusing the role of exact-like exchange, perturbative-like correlation, solvent effects, and other related factors, we find that the parameterized functionals B2π-PLYP and B2GP-PLYP and the parameter-free models PBE-CIDH and PBE-QIDH have respectable performance with respect to others. Lastly, besides the recommendation of reliable computational protocols for the purpose, hopefully this study can pave the way toward further developments of other SHs and DHs for theoretical explorations in the field of OLEDs technology.
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- Mojtaba Alipour
- Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
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Wasserman A, Nafziger J, Jiang K, Kim MC, Sim E, Burke K. The Importance of Being Inconsistent. Annu Rev Phys Chem 2017; 68:555-581. [PMID: 28463652 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-052516-044957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Adam Wasserman
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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- Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697
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Sancho-García JC, Pérez-Jiménez ÁJ, Savarese M, Brémond É, Adamo C. Determining the role of the underlying orbital-dependence of PBE0-DH and PBE-QIDH double-hybrid density functionals. J Comput Chem 2017; 38:1509-1514. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.24788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2017] [Revised: 02/20/2017] [Accepted: 02/23/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- D3-Compunet; CompuNet, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia; via Morego 30 Genoa I-16163 Italy
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- D3-Compunet; CompuNet, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia; via Morego 30 Genoa I-16163 Italy
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- D3-Compunet; CompuNet, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia; via Morego 30 Genoa I-16163 Italy
- Chimie ParisTech, PSL Research University, CNRS, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris, F-75005 Paris; France
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Sancho-García JC, Pérez-Jiménez AJ, Savarese M, Brémond E, Adamo C. Importance of Orbital Optimization for Double-Hybrid Density Functionals: Application of the OO-PBE-QIDH Model for Closed- and Open-Shell Systems. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:1756-62. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b00994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- J. C. Sancho-García
- Departamento
de Química Física, Universidad de Alicante, 03080 Alicante, Spain
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- Departamento
de Química Física, Universidad de Alicante, 03080 Alicante, Spain
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- CompuNet, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, I-16163 Genoa, Italy
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- CompuNet, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, I-16163 Genoa, Italy
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- CompuNet, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, via Morego 30, I-16163 Genoa, Italy
- Institut de Recherche
de Chimie Paris, IRCP CNRS UMR-8247, Chimie ParisTech, École Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Paris, 11 rue P. et M. Curie, F-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, 103 Boulevard Saint Michel, F-75005 Paris, France
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On the performance of time-dependent double-hybrid density functionals for description of absorption and emission spectra of heteroaromatic compounds. Theor Chem Acc 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-016-1838-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Su NQ, Xu X. A comparative study of the xDH-PBE0 and DSD-PBEPBE-D3BJ doubly hybrid density functionals. Mol Phys 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2015.1129462] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Neil Qiang Su
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, MOE Laboratory for Computational Physical Science, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, MOE Laboratory for Computational Physical Science, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Zhang IY, Su NQ, Brémond ÉAG, Adamo C, Xu X. Response to “Comment on ‘Doubly hybrid density functional xDH-PBE0 from a parameter-free global hybrid model PBE0”’ [J. Chem. Phys. 143, 187101 (2015)]. J Chem Phys 2015. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4934820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Igor Ying Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, MOE Laboratory for Computational Physical Science, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
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- Laboratoire d’Électrochimie, Chimie des Interfaces et Modélisation pour l’Énergie, CNRS UMR-7575, École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, Chimie ParisTech, 11 rue P. et M. Curie, F-75231 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire d’Électrochimie, Chimie des Interfaces et Modélisation pour l’Énergie, CNRS UMR-7575, École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, Chimie ParisTech, 11 rue P. et M. Curie, F-75231 Paris, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, 103 Boulevard Saint Michel, F-75005 Paris, France
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Molecular Catalysis and Innovative Materials, MOE Laboratory for Computational Physical Science, Department of Chemistry, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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