Many-Body Perturbation Theory Extended to the Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Approach: Application to Indole in Water Solution
Optical properties of aromatic chromophores are used to probe complex biological processes, yet how the environment tunes their optical properties is far from being fully understood. Here we present a method to calculate such properties on large-scale systems, like biologically relevant molecules in...
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Published in | Journal of chemical theory and computation Vol. 5; no. 7; pp. 1822 - 1828 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
American Chemical Society
14.07.2009
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Summary: | Optical properties of aromatic chromophores are used to probe complex biological processes, yet how the environment tunes their optical properties is far from being fully understood. Here we present a method to calculate such properties on large-scale systems, like biologically relevant molecules in aqueous solution. Our approach is based on many-body perturbation theory combined with a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) approach. We include quasiparticle and excitonic effects for the calculation of optical absorption spectra in a QM/MM scheme. We apply this scheme, together with the well-established TDDFT approach, to indole in water solution. Our calculations show that the solvent induces a red shift in the main spectral peak of indole, in quantitative agreement with the experiments, and they point to the relevance of both the electrostatic and geometrical origin of the shift. |
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ISSN: | 1549-9618 1549-9626 |
DOI: | 10.1021/ct800528e |