Can Expanded Bacteriochlorins Act as Photosensitizers in Photodynamic Therapy? Good News from Density Functional Theory Computations

The main photophysical properties of a series of expanded bacteriochlorins, recently synthetized, have been investigated by means of DFT and TD-DFT methods. Absorption spectra computed with different exchange-correlation functionals, B3LYP, M06 and ωB97XD, have been compared with the experimental on...

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Main Authors: Gloria Mazzone, Marta E. Alberto, Bruna C. De Simone, Tiziana Marino, Nino Russo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-02-01
Series:Molecules
Subjects:
DFT
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/21/3/288