DFT and MP2 calculations are performed to obtain optimized ground state geometries and binding energies of the cage and the prism conformers of water W6 clusters and Bz-W6 clusters using the aug-cc-pVDZ basis set. The cage conformer of Bz-W6 system is found to be more stable than prism conformer for all range of DFT functional and MP2. Time dependent-DFT is then used to study UV spectroscopy of Bz, water W6 clusters and Bz-W6 clusters at both the MP2 and wB97XD optimized ground state geometries using the B3LYP, CAM-B3LYP and M06-2X functional with 6-31++G(d,p) and aug-cc-pVTZ basis sets. Our results predict minor differences in the UV spectroscopy of cage and prism conformers W6 and Bz-W6 clusters that may be observable with high-resolution spectroscopy. The M06-2X and CAM-B3LYP functional perform consistently with each other, Benzene-mediated excitations of the water W6 cluster towards longer wavelengths above 170 nm are noticed in both the cage and prism geometries of Bz-W6. Benzene is found to be influenced after interacting with the cage and prism W6 geometries, and is seen to undergo a red shift in the main π→π electronic transition, in which the degeneracy is slightly broken. Charge transfer (CT) states and diffuse Rydberg-type states are also found to play an important role in the spectroscopy of such systems.
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