@article {632,
	title = {Toward a molecular scale interpretation of excitation energy transfer in solvated bichromophoric systems},
	journal = {Journal of the American Chemical Society},
	volume = {127},
	year = {2005},
	month = {2005},
	pages = {16733 - 16744},
	abstract = {This paper presents a quantum-mechanical study of the intramolecular excitation energy transfer (EET) coupling in naphthalene-bridge-naphthalene systems in gas phase and in solution. ZINDO and TDDFT response schemes are compared using both an exact and an approximate solution. The approximate solution based on a perturbative approach uses the single chromophore properties to reconstruct the real system coupling thus neglecting possible through-bond effects which conversely are accounted for in the exact solution. The comparison of the results of the two approaches with the experiments allows a detailed analysis of the relative importance of through-bond and through-space effects as well as a more complete understanding of the modifications in the EET coupling with the size of the system, the chromophore-chromophore distance, and solvation.},
	keywords = {ab-initio, charge-transfer, density-functional theory, light-harvesting   complex, linked free-base, polarizable continuum model, purple   bacteria, q-like bands, through-bond, transfer excited-states},
	isbn = {0002-7863},
	author = {Curutchet, Carles and Mennucci,B.}
}
