On the performance of long‐range‐corrected density functional theory and reduced‐size polarized LPol‐n basis sets in computations of electric dipole (hyper)polarizabilities of π‐conjugated molecules

Static longitudinal electric dipole (hyper)polarizabilities are calculated for six medium‐sized π‐conjugated organic molecules using recently developed LPol‐n basis set family to assess their performance. Dunning's correlation‐consistent basis sets of triple‐ζ quality combined with MP2 method and supported by CCSD(T)/aug‐cc‐pVDZ results are used to obtain the reference values of analyzed properties. The same reference is used to analyze (hyper)polarizabilities predicted by selected exchange‐correlation functionals, particularly those asymptotically corrected. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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