The main objective of this work is to investigate theoretically the electronic and
optical properties of organic compounds on liquid enviroment. The understanding of interactions on liquid systems is very important for the description of phenomena in many parts of the Science, like Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Materials. Also as in the development of optical materials. The thermal fluctuations make that lots of configurations can be generated. This is the reason of the statistical behavior realized in liquid systems. Considering these difficulties, to describe liquid systems, the sequential Monte Carlo / quantum mechanics (S-MC/QM) treatment is used in this work. On this procedure, first the liquid structure is generated by MC simulation and later, only the most important part of the system is treated as quantum mechanics.Using the above procedure, the quantum properties of the Methyl Orange (MO) and O 2,3-dimethyl thiene[3,4-b]pirazine (DTP) were investigated. MO is a well known pH indicator and can be found under basic and acidic conditions. Its minimal energy geometries were obtained by Density Functional Theory by the B3LYP functional, being the system described by Pople basis with one polarization function (6-31G*). To obtain the average properties of the quantum observables of these systems quantum chemistry calculations were performed within semi-empirical INDO/S-CI approach. About the absorption spectra of the MO, the experimental data presented in scientific literature reports a broad band placed on the lowest energies, more precisely between 400 and 600 nm. Our theoretical results for the alcaline form show an intense π → π* transition at about 432.4±0.03 nm and under acidic conditions, considering the MO acidic form, this transition appears at about 507.4±0.12, 496.4±0.28 or 545.3±0.10 nm, showing good agreement with experimental results. The DTP is a particular system used in the production of low band gap
polimers. Its electrical and optical properties were obtained by the novel Average Solvent Electrostatic Configuration (ASEC) methodology. The ASEC procedure include a solvent molecules point charges and permits obtaining quantum mechanical quantities performing only few quantum calculations. For DTP, using the Mφller- Plesset second order perturbation thoery (MP2) and the aug-cc-pVDZ, the electric dipole moment 1.16 D was reached performing only four quantum calculations on representative configurations, presenting an increase of 42% when compared to the isolated dipole. The polarizability also was apparised considering the same level of dipole calculation, the average value 132.7 a30 was observed. The lowest energy region of the absorption spectra was also investigated by ASEC procedure and using both, semi-empirical and DFT quantum approaches. This absorption region is the reason of contraditory conclusions about of the n → π* and π → π* transitions. Our results show these excitations are observed and they can overlap themselves. As example, our DFT results using the B3LYP functional show that these transitions are placed at about 360.63 and 351.15 nm, respectively, being in good agreement with experimental predictions.
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