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Journal of Chemical Physics / Volume 131 / Issue 11 / ARTICLES / Theoretical Methods and Algorithms

J. Chem. Phys. 131, 114113 (2009); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3232007 (12 pages)

Full-electron calculation of effective electronic couplings and excitation energies of charge transfer states: Application to hole transfer in DNA π-stacks

Agostino Migliore

Department of Chemistry and Center for Molecular Modeling, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, USA

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(Received 29 May 2009; accepted 31 August 2009; published online 21 September 2009)

In this work I develop and apply a theoretical method for calculating effective electronic couplings (or transfer integrals) between redox sites involved in hole or electron transfer reactions. The resulting methodology is a refinement and a generalization of a recently developed approach for transfer integral evaluation. In fact, it holds for any overlap between the charge-localized states used to represent charge transfer (CT) processes in the two-state model. The presented theoretical and computational analyses show that the prototype approach is recovered for sufficiently small overlaps. The method does not involve any empirical parameter. It allows a complete multielectron description, therefore including electronic relaxation effects. Furthermore, its theoretical formulation holds at any value of the given reaction coordinate and yields a formula for the evaluation of the vertical excitation energy (i.e., the energy difference between the adiabatic ground and first-excited electronic states) that rests on the same physical quantities used in transfer integral calculation. In this paper the theoretical approach is applied to CT in B-DNA base dimers within the framework of Density Functional Theory (DFT), although it can be implemented in other computational schemes. The results of this work, as compared with previous Hartree–Fock (HF) and post-HF evaluations, support the applicability of the current implementation of the method to larger π-stacked arrays, where post-HF approaches are computationally unfeasible.

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Article Outline

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODS
    1. Wave function overlap method for transfer integral evaluation
    2. System definition, diabatic states, and hybrid-DFT implementation of the method
  3. COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
    1. Effective electronic coupling in the GT dimer
    2. Effective electronic coupling in the GG dimer
  4. CONCLUSIONS

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bioelectric phenomena, density functional theory, DNA

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