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Chasing unphysical TD-DFT excited states in transition metal complexes with a simple diagnostic tool

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Transition Metal Complexes (TMCs) are known for the rich variety of their excited states showing different nature and degrees of locality. Describing the energies of these excited states with the same degree of accuracy is still problematic when using time-dependent density functional theory in conjunction with the most current density functional approximations. In particular, the presence of unphysically low lying excited states possessing a relevant Charge Transfer (CT) character may significantly affect the spectra computed at such a level of theory and, more relevantly, the interpretation of their photophysical behavior. In this work, we propose an improved version of the MAC index, recently proposed by the authors and collaborators, as a simple and computationally inexpensive diagnostic tool that can be used for the detection and correction of the unphysically predicted low lying excited states. The analysis, performed on five prototype TMCs, shows that spurious and ghost states can appear in a wide spectral range and that it is difficult to detect them only on the basis of their CT extent. Indeed, both delocalization of the excited state and CT extent are criteria that must be combined, as in the MAC index, to detect unphysical states. ACKNOWLEDGMEN
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hal-03297245 , version 1 (23-07-2021)

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Federica Maschietto, Marco Campetella, Juan Sanz García, Carlo Adamo, Ilaria Ciofini. Chasing unphysical TD-DFT excited states in transition metal complexes with a simple diagnostic tool. Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021, 154 (20), pp.204102. ⟨10.1063/5.0050680⟩. ⟨hal-03297245⟩
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