Nonorthogonality Problem and Effective Electronic Coupling Calculation: Application to Charge Transfer in 蟺-Stacks Relevant to Biochemistry and Molecular Electronics

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• 作者：Agostino Migliore
• 刊名：Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：June 14, 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：7
• 期：6
• 页码：1712-1725
• 全文大小：955K
• 年卷期：v.7,no.6(June 14, 2011)
• ISSN：1549-9626

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A recently proposed method for the calculation of the effective electronic coupling (or charge-transfer integral) in a two-state system is discussed and related to other methods in the literature. The theoretical expression of the coupling is exact within the two-state model and applies to the general case where the charge transfer (CT) process involves nonorthogonal initial and final diabatic (localized) states. In this work, it is shown how this effective electronic coupling is also the one to be used in a suitable extension of Rabi鈥檚 formula to the nonorthogonal representation of two-state dynamical problems. The formula for the transfer integral is inspected in the regime of long-range CT and applied to CT reactions in redox molecular systems of interest to biochemistry and/or to molecular electronics: the guanine鈥搕hymine stack from regular B-DNA, the polyaromatic perylenediimide stack, and the quinol-semiquinone couple. The calculations are performed within the framework of the Density Functional Theory (DFT), using hybrid exchange-correlation (XC) density functionals, which also allowed investigation of the appropriateness of such hybrid-DFT methods for computing electronic couplings. The use of the recently developed M06-2X and M06-HF density functionals in appropriate ways is supported by the results of this work.