Role of the electronically excited-state hydrogen bonding and water clusters in the luminescent metal-organic framework.

The electronically excited state and luminescence property of metal-organic framework Zn(3-tzba)(2,2'-bipy)(H2O)·nH2O have been investigated using the density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TDDFT). The calculated geometry and infrared spectra in the ground state are consistent with the experimental results. The frontier molecular orbitals and electronic configuration indicated that the origin of luminescence is attributed to a ligand-to-ligand charge transfer (LLCT).

The effect of furcated hydrogen bond and coordination bond on luminescent behavior of metal-organic framework [CuCN·EIN]: a TDDFT study.

The hydrogen bonding in electronically excited-state of the metal-organic framework [CuCN·EIN] was studied using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). The representative fragment of [CuCN·EIN] was employed for the computation. The geometric structures, binding energies and IR spectra in both ground state and electronically excited state S(1) of the complex were computed using DFT and TDDFT methods to investigate excited-state hydrogen-bonding and coordination bonding, respectively.

Theoretical study on the motion of a La atom inside a C82 cage.

The motion of a single lanthanum atom inside a C82 (C2v) fullerene cage has been investigated by means of the hybrid density functional method (B3LYP). The obtained potential energy surface (PES) suggests that the encapsulated La atom can oscillate only around the minimum energy potential well, which is apparently different from the scenario of a giant bowl-shaped movement at room temperature described by Nishibori et al. (Nishibori, E.