Comparative Study of Vibrational Spectra of Two Bioactive Natural Products Lupeol and Lupenone Using MM/QM Method

Table 5

Lowest energy, HOMO-LUMO gap (frontier orbital energy gap) and dipole moment of lupeol and lupenone by (B3LYP/6-31G: PM3) methods.

ParametersLupeolLupenone

Energy (in au)−0.1855−0.1666
HOMO (in eV)−9.10−10.07
LUMO (in eV)0.991.08
Frontier orbital energy gap (in eV)10.0911.15
Dipole moment (in Debye)1.662.91