We demonstrate the importance of the dynamical electron correlation effect in diabatic couplings of electron-exchange processes in molecular aggregates. To perform a multireference perturbation theory with large active space of molecular aggregates, an efficient low-rank approximation is applied to the complete active space self-consistent field reference functions. It is known that kinetic rates of electron-exchange processes, such as singlet fission, triplet–triplet annihilation, and triplet exciton transfer, are not sufficiently explained by the direct term of the diabatic couplings but efficiently mediated by the low-lying charge transfer states if the two molecules are in close proximity. It is presented in this paper, however, that regardless of the distance of the molecules, the direct term is considerably underestimated by up to three orders of magnitude without the dynamical electron correlation, i.e., the diabatic states expressed in the active space are not adequate to quantitatively reproduce the electron-exchange processes.
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