ArticleJournal of chemical theory and computation2026
Modeling Xanthophyll Excited States via Cost-Effective Quantum Chemistry methods and Property-Based Diabatization.
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Xanthophyll carotenoids play essential roles in photosynthetic light harvesting and photoprotection in biological systems, yet the accurate description of their excited states at a feasible computational cost remains challenging due to their extended π-conjugation and multireference character. Here, we compare the DFT/MRCI, FOMO-CI, and mixed-reference spin-flip TDDFT (MRSF-TDDFT) descriptions of the excited states for a representative set of xanthophylls. We analyze vertical excitation energies and potential energy profiles along the bond-length alternation coordinate, adopting a multiple-property-based diabatization (MPD) scheme to consistently characterize electronic states across methods. We find a remarkably consistent description of the low-lying excited states and their potential energy curves across the methods. DFT/MRCI and the semiempirical FOMO-CI exhibit closely aligned behavior across xanthophylls, while the performance of MRSF-TDDFT depends on the choice of exchange-correlation functional. Overall, our calculations suggest that the covalent 2A
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