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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Phys Chem B. 2008 Dec 25;112(51):16883–16890. doi: 10.1021/jp807172h

Table 1.

Basis set dependence of the S1 (S2 in parentheses) vertical excitation energy (nm) of PSB all-trans-6-s-trans retinal in vacuo at the 6-root CASSCF(12/12) and DDCI2+Q(12/12) level at the B3LYP/6-31G*-optimized geometry

Basis Set Basis Set Size CASSCF(12/12) DDCI2+Q(12/12)
6-31G* 354 553 (404) 545 (416)
VDZP [or SV(P)] 444 566 (405) 555 (420)
BNANO-DZP 444 559 (405) 555 (437)
TZVP 579 572 (406) 570 (438)
VTZP 600 572 (406) 563 (441)
BNANO-TZ2P 753 552 (404) 550 (437)