Solvating solutes 1 and 2 in CHCl 3 gives the one-photon absorption spectra presented in major peak, here observed at around 4.1 eV for solute 1 (Figure ) and 3.2 eV for solute 2 (Figure ), is reproduced with good accuracy using the CHL model with only the peakheight being overestimated somewhat. The high-energy region of the spectra predictions of peaks 2 (5.5 eV) and 4 (6.6 eV) are somewhat reproduced for solute 1 with the CHL model, whereas the third peak (6.0 eV) deviates by 0.2 eV and is predicted to be more intense than the reference calculation. A similar observation is made for solute 2 where all minor peaks are shifted 0.2-0.4 eV and the last predicted peak (5.5 eV) is also predicted to be 5 times more intense active than what the reference spectrum suggests. The deviations from the reference spectrum computed from eq 13 is 0.45 for both solutes.