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Agisilaos Chantzis1, Thibaut Very1, Antonio Monari1
1Equipe de Chimie et Biochimie Théoriques, SRSMC UMR 7565, Université de Lorraine-Nancy and CNRS , Boulevard des Aiguilletes BP 70239, 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France.
Abstract:
The UV/vis and circular-dichroism spectra of a bis-bipyridinyl ruthenium complex are computed at the density functional theory level and the time dependent density functional level of theory. The effects of the solvent, here water, have been taken into account, by polarizable continuum methods and by a hybrid quantum-mechanics/molecular-mechanics approach combined with molecular dynamics. The effects of the solvent have been decomposed in geometric, electrostatic, and polarization of the environment. The principal transitions have been analyzed by means of natural transition orbitals.
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