H ∕ D isotope effect on porphine and porphycene molecules with multicomponent hybrid density functional theory

Abstract

To analyze the H/D isotope effect on porphine and porphycene molecules including the protonic/deuteronic quantum nature and electron correlation efficiently, the authors have developed the new scheme of the multicomponent hybrid density functional theory [MC_(HF+DFT)]. The optimized geometries of porphine, porphycene, and these deuterated isotopomers by our MC_(HF+DFT) method are in good agreement with the experimental "high-symmetric" structures, contrary to the "low-symmetric" geometries optimized by pure multicomponent Hartree-Fock method. The optimized geometries for HD-porphine and HD-porphycene molecules, in which an inner hydrogen is replaced to a deuterium, are found to be low symmetric. Such drastic geometrical change induces the electronic polarization, and gives rise to the slight dipole moment values in these HD species. Their results clearly indicate that the difference of the nuclear quantum nature between inner proton and inner deuteron directly influences the molecular geometry and electronic structure.