Next, the QM region was expanded to include solvent molecules closest to the chromophore. For water, this meant that all hydrogen bonded water molecules were included, whereas for chloroform and dimethyl sulfoxide it was all solvent molecules within a radius of 3 Å from the chromophore. Overall, this expansion of the QM region corrected a considerable amount of the discrepancies observed for the minimal-sized QM regions, and particularly improvements in the high-energy region of the computed spectra were observed. However, some dissonance between the use of polarizable water models and the reference spectrum were observed for the anionic solute. The concern was especially one peak in the high energy region of the spectrum, which was ascribed to most likely be due to over-polarization effects.