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Resilience of Hund's rule in the Chemical Space of Small Organic Molecules
Atreyee Majumdar, Raghunathan Ramakrishnan
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We embark on a quest to identify small molecules in the chemical space that can potentially violate Hund's rule. Utilizing twelve TDDFT approximations and the ADC(2) many-body method, we report the energies of S₁ and T₁ excited states of 12,880 closed-shell organic molecules within the bigQM7ω dataset with up to 7 CONF atoms. In this comprehensive dataset, none of the molecules, in their minimum energy geometry, exhibit a negative S₁-T₁ energy gap at the ADC($2$) level while several molecules display values <0.1 eV. The spin-component-scaled double-hybrid method, SCS-PBE-QIDH, demonstrates the best agreement with ADC(2). Yet, at this level, a few molecules with a strained sp³-N center turn out as false-positives with the S₁ state lower in energy than T₁. We investigate a prototypical cage molecule with an energy gap <-0.2 eV, which a closer examination revealed as another false positive. We conclude that in the chemical space of small closed-shell organic molecules, it is possible to identify geometric and electronic structural features giving rise to S₁-T₁ degeneracy; still, there is no evidence of a negative gap. We share the dataset generated for this study as a module, to facilitate seamless molecular discovery through data mining.
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