Simple Protocol for Capturing Both Linear-Response and State-Specific Effects in Excited-State Calculations with Continuum Solvation Models
Ciro A. Guido, Amara Chrayteh, Giovanni Scalmani, Benedetta Mennucci, Denis Jacquemin
Abstract
We present an effective computational protocol (cLR2) to describe both solvatochromism and fluorosolvatochromism. This protocol, which couples the polarizable continuum model to time-dependent density functional theory, simultaneously accounts for both linear-response and state-specific solvation effects. A series of test cases, including solvatochromic and fluorosolvatochromic compounds and excited-state intramolecular proton transfers, are used to highlight that cLR2 is especially beneficial for modeling bright excitations possessing a significant charge-transfer character, as well as cases in which an accurate balance between states of various polarities should be restored.