TY - JOUR
T1 - Multiconfiguration Pair-Density Functional Theory Calculations of Iron(II) Porphyrin
T2 - Effects of Hybrid Pair-Density Functionals and Expanded RAS and DMRG Active Spaces on Spin-State Orderings
AU - Stroscio, Gautam D.
AU - Zhou, Chen
AU - Truhlar, Donald G.
AU - Gagliardi, Laura
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PY - 2022/6/23
Y1 - 2022/6/23
N2 - Iron(II) porphyrins play critical roles in enzymes and synthetic catalysts. Computationally determining the spin-state ordering for even the unsubstituted iron(II) porphyrin (FeP) is challenging due to its large size. Multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory (MC-PDFT), a method capable of accurately capturing correlation with lower cost than comparably accurate methods, was previously used to predict a triplet ground state for FeP across a wide range of active spaces up to (34e, 35o). The purpose of this present MC-PDFT study is to determine the effects of including nonlocal exchange in the energy calculation and of using a larger active space size [DMRG(40e, 42o) and RAS(40, 2, 2; 16, 6, 20)] on the calculated FeP spin-state ordering. The recently developed hybrid MC-PDFT method, which uses a weighted average of the MC-PDFT energy and the energy expectation value of the reference wave function, is applied with a weight of the reference wave function energy of λ. We find that increasing λ stabilizes the quintet relative to the triplets. The hybrid tPBE0 functional (tPBE with λ set to 0.25) consistently predicts a triplet ground state with the quintet lying above by 0.10-0.16 eV, depending on the reference wave function. These values are particularly interesting in light of tPBE0's very strong performance for a diverse set of other systems.
AB - Iron(II) porphyrins play critical roles in enzymes and synthetic catalysts. Computationally determining the spin-state ordering for even the unsubstituted iron(II) porphyrin (FeP) is challenging due to its large size. Multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory (MC-PDFT), a method capable of accurately capturing correlation with lower cost than comparably accurate methods, was previously used to predict a triplet ground state for FeP across a wide range of active spaces up to (34e, 35o). The purpose of this present MC-PDFT study is to determine the effects of including nonlocal exchange in the energy calculation and of using a larger active space size [DMRG(40e, 42o) and RAS(40, 2, 2; 16, 6, 20)] on the calculated FeP spin-state ordering. The recently developed hybrid MC-PDFT method, which uses a weighted average of the MC-PDFT energy and the energy expectation value of the reference wave function, is applied with a weight of the reference wave function energy of λ. We find that increasing λ stabilizes the quintet relative to the triplets. The hybrid tPBE0 functional (tPBE with λ set to 0.25) consistently predicts a triplet ground state with the quintet lying above by 0.10-0.16 eV, depending on the reference wave function. These values are particularly interesting in light of tPBE0's very strong performance for a diverse set of other systems.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c02347
DO - 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c02347
M3 - Article
C2 - 35674705
AN - SCOPUS:85133100763
SN - 1089-5639
VL - 126
SP - 3957
EP - 3963
JO - Journal of Physical Chemistry A
JF - Journal of Physical Chemistry A
IS - 24
ER -