Table 7. Computed Excitation Energies (eV) and Energy Components from Multistate Energy Decomposition Analysis (MS-EDA) for Pentacene Excimer and a Pentacene Dimer Fishbone Configurationa.
| excimer |
fishboneb |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| energy term | Lb | Lb | La | Lb |
| hν̅0K | 2.10 | 3.14 | 2.21 | 3.24 |
| ΔEdist | 0.18 | 0.18 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
| ELex[(X*•Y)K] | 1.89 | 3.04 | 1.99/1.98 | 2.92/2.92 |
| EEx[(X•Y)K–] | 1.46 | 2.92 | 1.97 | 2.92 |
| EEx[(X•Y)K+] | 2.40 | 3.03 | 2.02 | 2.93 |
| ESE[(X•Y)CTK–] | 0.62 | 2.70 | 1.88 | 2.92 |
| ESE[(X•Y)CTK+] | 2.30 (CT), 2.47 | 3.38 | 1.97, 2.23 (CT) | 2.93 |
| E(XY)K– | 0.94 | 2.49 | 1.71 | 3.07 |
| E(XY)K+ | 2.11 | 2.87 | 1.92 | 3.10 |
All excitation energies are given relative to that of the adiabatic ground state of isolated pentacene. The M06-2X density functional is used along with the cc-pVDZ basis set. Adapted from ref (5). Copyright 2023 American Chemical Society.
The HOMO–1 → LUMO+1 configuration was not included.