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Scott JM, Dale SG, McBroom J, Gould T, Li Q. Size Isn't Everything: Geometric Tuning in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Its Implications for Carbon Nanodots. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:2003-2014. [PMID: 38470339 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c07416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/13/2024]
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Recent developments in light-emitting carbon nanodots and molecular organic semiconductors have seen renewed interest in the properties of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as a family. The networks of delocalized π electrons in sp2-hybridized carbon grant PAHs light-emissive properties right across the visible spectrum. However, the mechanistic understanding of their emission energy has been limited due to the ground state-focused methods of determination. This computational chemistry work, therefore, seeks to validate existing rules and elucidate new features and characteristics of PAHs that influence their emissions. Predictions based on (time-dependent) density functional theory account for the full 3-dimensional electronic structure of ground and excited states and reveal that twisting and near-degeneracies strongly influence emission spectra and may therefore be used to tune the color of PAHs and, hence, carbon nanodots. We particularly note that the influence of twisting goes beyond torsional destabilization of the ground-state and geometric relaxation of the excited state, with a third contribution associated with the electric transition dipole. Symmetries and peri-condensation may also have an effect, but this could not be statistically confirmed. In pursuing this goal, we demonstrate that with minimal changes to molecular size, the entire visible spectrum may be spanned by geometric modification alone; we have also provided a first estimate of emission energy for 35 molecules currently lacking published emission spectra as well as clear guidelines for when more sophisticated computational techniques are required to predict the properties of PAHs accurately.
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- James M Scott
- Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia
- School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia
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- Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia
- The Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials (I-FIM), National University of Singapore, 4 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117544, Singapore
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- School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia
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- Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia
- School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia
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- Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia
- School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland 4111, Australia
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Iftikhar R, Khan FZ, Naeem N. Recent synthetic strategies of small heterocyclic organic molecules with optoelectronic applications: a review. Mol Divers 2024; 28:271-307. [PMID: 36609738 DOI: 10.1007/s11030-022-10597-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2022] [Accepted: 12/31/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Over the past few years, there have been tremendous developments in the design and synthesis of organic optoelectronic materials with appealing applications in device fabrication of organic light-emitting diodes, superconductors, organic lasers, organic field-effect transistors, clean energy-producing organic solar cells, etc. There is an increasing demand for the synthesis of green, highly efficient organic optoelectronic materials to cope with the issue of efficiency roll-off in organic semiconductor-based devices. This review systematically summarized the recent progress in the design and synthesis of small organic molecules having promising optoelectronic properties for their potential applications in optoelectronic devices during the last 10-year range (2010-early 2021).
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- Ramsha Iftikhar
- School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2055, Australia.
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, 38000, Pakistan
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Goettl SJ, Turner AM, Sun BJ, Chang AHH, Hemberger P, Kaiser RI. Gas-phase preparation of the dibenzo[ e,l]pyrene (C 24H 14) butterfly molecule via a phenyl radical-mediated ring annulation. Chem Commun (Camb) 2024; 60:1404-1407. [PMID: 38174640 DOI: 10.1039/d3cc05371g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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A high temperature phenyl-mediated addition-cyclization-dehydrogenation mechanism to form peri-fused polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) derivatives-illustrated through the formation of dibenzo[e,l]pyrene (C24H14)-is explored through a gas-phase reaction of the phenyl radical (C6H5˙) with triphenylene (C18H12) utilizing photoelectron photoion coincidence spectroscopy (PEPICO) combined with electronic structure calculations. Low-lying vibrational modes of dibenzo[e,l]pyrene exhibit out-of-plane bending and are easily populated in high temperature environments such as combustion flames and circumstellar envelopes of carbon stars, thus stressing dibenzo[e,l]pyrene as a strong target for far-IR astronomical surveys.
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- Shane J Goettl
- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, National Dong Hwa University, Shoufeng, Hualien 974, Taiwan.
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- Department of Chemistry, National Dong Hwa University, Shoufeng, Hualien 974, Taiwan.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
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Anjalikrishna PK, Gadre SR, Suresh CH. Electrostatic Potential for Exploring Electron Delocalization in Infinitenes, Circulenes, and Nanobelts. J Org Chem 2023; 88:4123-4133. [PMID: 36952587 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.2c02507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/25/2023]
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The π-conjugation, aromaticity, and stability of the newly synthesized 12-infinitene and of other infinitenes comprising 8-, 10-, 14-, and 16-arene rings are investigated using density functional theory. The π-electron delocalization and aromatic character rooted in infinitenes are quantified in terms of molecular electrostatic potential (MESP) topology. Structurally, the infinitene bears a close resemblance of its helically twisted structure to the infinity symbol. The MESP topology shows that infinitene possesses an infinity-shaped delocalization of the electron density that streams over the fused benzenoid rings. The parameter ∑i=13Δλi, derived from the eigenvalues (λi) corresponding to the MESP minima, is used for quantifying the aromatic character of arene rings of infinitene. The structure, stability, and MESP topology features of 8-, 10-, 12-, 14-, and 16-infinitenes are also compared with the corresponding isomeric circulenes and carbon nanobelts. Further, the strain in all such systems is evaluated by considering the respective isomeric planar benzenoid hydrocarbons as reference systems. The 12-infinitene turns out to be the most aromatic and the least strained among all the systems examined.
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- Puthannur K Anjalikrishna
- Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram 695019, Kerala, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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- Department of Scientific Computing, Modelling and Simulation, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 411007, India
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- Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram 695019, Kerala, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India
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Varet A, Prcovic N, Terrioux C, Hagebaum-Reignier D, Carissan Y. BenzAI: A Program to Design Benzenoids with Defined Properties Using Constraint Programming. J Chem Inf Model 2022; 62:2811-2820. [PMID: 35612612 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.2c00353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The BenzAI program can automatically generate benzenoids with defined structural constraints, like the number of hexagons, the number of carbon and/or hydrogen atoms, the existence of symmetries, the number of Kekulé structures, their diameter, or more elaborate criteria like their irregularity. BenzAI allows both automatic generation and manual building of benzenoids including or excluding defined patterns. For all benzenoids with less than 10 rings, it can extract IR spectra from a database that we generated. It computes local aromaticity for closed-shell and monoradical species using circuit-based algorithms. We present practical examples of what can be done with BenzAI for a diversity of cases.
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- Adrien Varet
- Aix-Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, CNRS, LIS, 13013 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, CNRS, LIS, 13013 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, CNRS, LIS, 13013 Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Centrale Marseille, ISM2, 13013 Marseille, France
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Suresh CH, Remya GS, Anjalikrishna PK. Molecular electrostatic potential analysis: A powerful tool to interpret and predict chemical reactivity. WIRES COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Cherumuttathu H. Suresh
- Chemical Sciences and Technology Division CSIR‐National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram Kerala India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) Ghaziabad India
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- Chemical Sciences and Technology Division CSIR‐National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram Kerala India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) Ghaziabad India
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- Chemical Sciences and Technology Division CSIR‐National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram Kerala India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) Ghaziabad India
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