Friday, October 31, 2014

INDO/X: A New Semiempirical Method for Excited States of Organic and Biological Molecules

Alexander A. Voityuk Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 2014, ASAP
Contributed by +Jan Jensen

This paper presents a significantly more accurate re-parameterization of the popular INDO/S method. The re-parameterization is based on the TBE-2 data set: vertical excitation energies and oscillator strengths computed for the valence excited states of 28 medium-sized organic molecules using multistate-CASPT2 and aug-cc-pVTZ basis set.

The author sums it up succinctly: "The mean absolute deviations of the INDO/X excitation energies relative to the TBE-2 data is 0.26 eV for singlet states and 0.33 eV for triplet states. The corresponding values for INDO/S are 0.56 and 0.64 eV. ...  Unlike INDO/S where two different Hamiltonians are employed for singlet and triplet excitations, both types of excited states are calculated within the same INDO/X scheme."  The MADs are thus similar to the MAD for TD-B3LYP calculations (0.27 eV) and significantly better than TD-BP86 (0.53 eV) and TD-BHLYP (0.48 eV) calculations.

Like INDO/S, INDO/X uses the CIS approach and can therefore be applied to quite large molecules. Furthermore, the author notes that the results are quite insensitive to the chosen active space.

Thanks to @CompChemNews for alerting me to this paper.



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