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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 2.

The effects of active space size, the number of roots and Tsel (Eh) in post-CASSCF/6-31G* calculations on the computed S1 (S2) vertical excitation energy (nm) of PSB all-trans-6-s-trans retinal in vacuo optimized at B3LYP/6-31G* level

6-root CAS(12/12) 3-root CAS(12/12) 3-root CAS(6/6) 3-root CAS(6/6)
CASSCF 553 (404) 548 (391) 382 (334) 382 (334)
Tsel 10-6 10-6 10-6 10-7
DDCI2+Q 545 (416) 544 (412) 559 (385) 545 (379)