Research Article

DFT Study of Binding and Electron Transfer from a Metal-Free Dye with Carboxyl, Hydroxyl, and Sulfonic Anchors to a Titanium Dioxide Nanocluster

Table 8

Orbital overlap between the key molecular orbitals (the excited state of the dye and the conduction band edge of the substrate), calculated at DFT/B3LYP/DZVP level.

H2-ACY2−H1H2-ACYH1-ACY2−H3-ACY2−H1H3-ACYH2H3-ACY

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