Excitation energies of the lowest singlet and triplet state of molecules whose first excited singlet state lies energetically below the first triplet state have been studied computationally at (time-dependent) density functional theory, coupled-cluster, and second-order multiconfiguration perturbation theory levels. The calculations at the ab initio levels show that the singlet-triplet gap is inverted as compared to the one expected from Hund's rule, whereas all density functionals yield the triplet state as the lowest excited state. Double excitations responsible for the inverted singlet-triplet gap have been identified. Employing the spin-flip and ΔSCF methods, singlet-triplet inversion was obtained at the density functional theory level for some of the studied molecules.

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