In this work the, intrinsic properties of the ground and excited states of the DOEO 0 neutral molecule and the DOEO þ cation are studied;The ground-state optimised structures and energies were obtained using the density functional theory (DFT) as approximated by the various functionals (B3LYP, B3PW91, and LSDA) in restricted and unrestricted models for neutral DOEO 0 and DOEO þ cation, respectively. The character and energy of the first 30 singlet-singlet electronic transitions were investigated by applying the time-dependent DFT approximations, TD-B3LYP, TD-B3PW91, and TD-LSDA, to the corresponding optimised ground-state geometries. Moreover, excites states were calculated for DOEO dimer with one hole at the TD-B3LYP/3-21 þ G(d) level of theory; the initial geometry of the dimer was taken from X-ray data. A comparison is made between the different theoretical methodologies used to study the electronic ground and excited states. We also report the polarised optical conductivity spectra (500-18,000 cm À1 ) and the absorption spectra (400-47,000 cm À1 ) of (DOEO) 4 HgBr 4 Á TCE salt.