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Korsaye FA, Perrella F, Petrone A, Adamo C, Rega N, Ciofini I. Monitoring Density Redistribution at the Excited State in a Dual Emitting Molecule: An Analysis Based on Real-Time Density Functional Theory and Density Descriptors. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:4324-4334. [PMID: 38758031 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.4c00934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
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In this work, we computed and analyzed, by means of density-based descriptors, the real-time evolution of both the locally excited (LE) and charge-transfer (CT) excited states for the planar and twisted conformations of the DMABN (4-(N,N-dimethylamino)benzonitrile) molecule using real-time time-dependent density functional theory (DFT) and three different exchange-correlation energy functionals (EXC) belonging to the same family (the PBE one). Our results based on the analysis of density-based descriptors show that the underlying EXC modifies the evolution in time of the density. In particular, comparing the frequency of density reorganization computed with the three functionals (PBE, PBE0, and LC-PBE), we found that the frequency of electronic interconversion of the individual determinants involved during the dynamics increases from PBE to PBE0 and to LC-PBE. This allows us to show that there is a correlation between the delocalization of the electronic density and the frequency of reorganization. In particular, the greater the mean hole-electron distance during the dynamics, the lower is the frequency of density reorganization.
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- Feven-Alemu Korsaye
- Chimie ParisTech, PSL University, CNRS, Institute of Chemistry for Life and Health Sciences, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Largo San Marcellino 10, I-80138 Napoli, Italia
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- Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Largo San Marcellino 10, I-80138 Napoli, Italia
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, via Cintia 21, I-80126 Napoli, Italia
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Unità di Napoli, via Cintia 21, I-80126 Napoli, Italia
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- Chimie ParisTech, PSL University, CNRS, Institute of Chemistry for Life and Health Sciences, F-75005 Paris, France
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- Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Largo San Marcellino 10, I-80138 Napoli, Italia
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, via Cintia 21, I-80126 Napoli, Italia
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Unità di Napoli, via Cintia 21, I-80126 Napoli, Italia
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- Chimie ParisTech, PSL University, CNRS, Institute of Chemistry for Life and Health Sciences, F-75005 Paris, France
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Datar A, Gudivada S, Matthews DA. Ab Initio Investigation of Intramolecular Charge Transfer States in DMABN by Calculation of Excited State X-ray Absorption Spectra. J Phys Chem A 2023. [PMID: 37209154 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c01409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Dual fluorescence in 4-(dimethylamino)benzonitrile (DMABN) and its derivatives in polar solvents has been studied extensively for the past several decades. An intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) minimum on the excited state potential energy surface, in addition to the localized low-energy (LE) minimum, has been proposed as a mechanism for this dual fluorescence, with large geometric relaxation and molecular orbital reorganization a key feature of the ICT pathway. Herein, we have used both equation-of-motion coupled-cluster with single and double excitations (EOM-CCSD) and time-dependent density functional (TDDFT) methods to investigate the landscape of excited state potential energy surfaces across a number of geometric conformations proposed as ICT structures. In order to correlate these geometries and valence excited states in terms of potential experimental observables, we have calculated the nitrogen K-edge ground and excited state absorption spectra for each of the predicted "signpost" structures and identified several key spectral features that could be used to interpret a future time-resolved X-ray absorption experiment.
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- Avdhoot Datar
- Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 75275, United States
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Ren M, Liu X, Zhang L, Lin X, Wu W, Chen Z. Compact and accurate ab initio valence bond wave functions for electron transfer: the classic but challenging covalent-ionic interaction in LiF. J Chem Phys 2022; 157:084106. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0097614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The paper combines the valence bond block diabatization approach (VBBDA) with the idea of orbital breathing. With highly compact wave functions, the breathing orbital valence bond (BOVB) method is applied to investigate several atomic and molecular properties including the electron affinity of F, the adiabatic and diabatic potential energy curves and the dipole moment curves of the two lowest-lying 1Σ+ states, the electronic coupling curve and the crossing distance of the two diabatic states, and the spectroscopic constants of the ground states for LiF. The configuration selection scheme proposed in this work is quite general, requiring only the selection of several de-excitation and excitation orbitals in a sense like the restricted active space self-consistent field method. Practically, this is also the first time that BOVB results are extrapolated to complete basis set limit. Armed with the chemical intuition provided by VB theory, the classic but challenging covalent-ionic interaction in the title molecule is not only conceptually interpreted but is also accurately computed.
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- Mingxing Ren
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, China
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- Chemistry, Xiamen University, China
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Twisted intramolecular charge transfer of nitroaromatic push-pull chromophores. Sci Rep 2022; 12:6557. [PMID: 35449231 PMCID: PMC9023442 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-10565-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2021] [Accepted: 04/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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The structural changes during the intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) of nitroaromatic chromophores, 4-dimethylamino-4′-nitrobiphenyl (DNBP) and 4-dimethylamino-4′-nitrostilbene (DNS) were investigated by femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) with both high spectral and temporal resolutions. The kinetically resolved Raman spectra of DNBP and DNS in the locally-excited and charge-transferred states of the S1 state appear distinct, especially in the skeletal vibrational modes of biphenyl and stilbene including ν8a and νC=C. The ν8a of two phenyls and the νC=C of the central ethylene group (only for stilbene), which are strongly coupled in the planar geometries, are broken with the twist of nitrophenyl group with the ICT. Time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy measurements and the time-dependent density functional theory simulations support the ultrafast ICT dynamics of 220–480 fs with the twist of nitrophenyl group occurring in the S1 state of the nitroaromatic chromophores. While the ICT of DNBP occurs via a barrier-less pathway, the ICT coordinates of DNS are strongly coupled to several low-frequency out-of-phase deformation modes relevant to the twist of the nitrophenyl group.
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Ortiz-Gómez I, González-Alfaro S, Sánchez-Ruiz A, de Orbe-Payá I, Capitán-Vallvey LF, Navarro A, Salinas-Castillo A, García-Martínez JC. Reversal of a Fluorescent Fluoride Chemosensor from Turn-Off to Turn-On Based on Aggregation Induced Emission Properties. ACS Sens 2022; 7:37-43. [PMID: 35020353 PMCID: PMC8805153 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.1c02196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2021] [Accepted: 01/11/2022] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Here we present a new approach for the development of fluoride chemosensors taking advantage of aggregation induced emission (AIE) properties. Although AIE-based chemosensors have been described, they rely primarily on the analyte causing aggregation and hence fluorescence. We propose a new concept in the use of AIE for the development of fluorescent sensors. Our hypothesis is based on the fact that a turn-off chemosensor in solution can be transformed into turn-on in the solid state if the properties of ACQ and AIE are properly combined between the fluorescent molecules involved. To demonstrate this hypothesis, we have selected a fluorescent chemosensor for the fluoride anion with a conjugated structure of bis(styryl)pyrimidine that, while showing turn-off behavior in solution, becomes turn-on when it is brought to the solid state. We have also combined it with the advantages of a detection system based on the microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (μPAD). The system is fully characterized spectroscopically both in solution and in the solid state, and quantum mechanical calculations were performed to explain how the sensor works. The prepared device presents a high sensitivity, with no interference and with an LoD and LoQ that allow determination of fluoride concentrations in water 2 orders of magnitude below the maximum allowed by WHO.
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- Inmaculada Ortiz-Gómez
- ECsens,
Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
- Unit
of Excellence in Chemistry applied to Biomedicine and the Environment, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Universidad
de Castilla-La Mancha, Departamento de
Química Inorgánica, Orgánica y Bioquímica,
Facultad de Farmacia, C/José María Sánchez Ibáñez s/n, 02008 Albacete, Spain
- Universidad
de Castilla-La Mancha, Regional Center for
Biomedical Research (CRIB), C/Almansa 13, 02008 Albacete, Spain
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- Universidad
de Castilla-La Mancha, Departamento de
Química Inorgánica, Orgánica y Bioquímica,
Facultad de Farmacia, C/José María Sánchez Ibáñez s/n, 02008 Albacete, Spain
- Universidad
de Castilla-La Mancha, Regional Center for
Biomedical Research (CRIB), C/Almansa 13, 02008 Albacete, Spain
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- ECsens,
Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
- Unit
of Excellence in Chemistry applied to Biomedicine and the Environment, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- ECsens,
Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
- Unit
of Excellence in Chemistry applied to Biomedicine and the Environment, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Department
of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Experimental Sciences,
Campus Las Lagunillas, Universidad de Jaén, 23071 Jaén, Spain
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- ECsens,
Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
- Unit
of Excellence in Chemistry applied to Biomedicine and the Environment, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
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- Universidad
de Castilla-La Mancha, Departamento de
Química Inorgánica, Orgánica y Bioquímica,
Facultad de Farmacia, C/José María Sánchez Ibáñez s/n, 02008 Albacete, Spain
- Universidad
de Castilla-La Mancha, Regional Center for
Biomedical Research (CRIB), C/Almansa 13, 02008 Albacete, Spain
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Chen L, Li F, Li Y, Yang J, Li Y, He B. Red-emitting fluorogenic BODIPY-tetrazine probes for biological imaging. Chem Commun (Camb) 2021; 58:298-301. [PMID: 34889325 DOI: 10.1039/d1cc05863k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
Abstract
A series of new BODIPY-tetrazine derivatives have been developed with a twist intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) state in polar solvents, which is an electron transfer process that occurs upon photoexcitation in a molecule that usually consists of an electron donor and acceptor linked by a single bond. Among them, the BODIPY-tetrazine derivative 6i was stable towards long-term storage and red-emitting with excellent performance, and was further used to image trans-cyclooctene-labeled lipids in mammalian cells and cyclopropene-labeled sugars in cancer cells under no-wash conditions.
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- Lei Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Functions and Applications of Medicinal Plants, Engineering Research Center for the Development and Application of Ethnic Medicine and TCM (Ministry of Education), Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang 550004, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science of Shaanxi Province, Key laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Chang'an Campus: No. 620, West Chang'an Avenue, Chang'an, Xi'an, 710119, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Functions and Applications of Medicinal Plants, Engineering Research Center for the Development and Application of Ethnic Medicine and TCM (Ministry of Education), Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang 550004, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Science of Shaanxi Province, Key laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Chang'an Campus: No. 620, West Chang'an Avenue, Chang'an, Xi'an, 710119, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Functions and Applications of Medicinal Plants, Engineering Research Center for the Development and Application of Ethnic Medicine and TCM (Ministry of Education), Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang 550004, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Functions and Applications of Medicinal Plants, Engineering Research Center for the Development and Application of Ethnic Medicine and TCM (Ministry of Education), Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutics, School of Pharmacy, Guizhou Medical University, Guiyang 550004, China.
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Gómez S, Soysal EN, Worth GA. Micro-Solvated DMABN: Excited State Quantum Dynamics and Dual Fluorescence Spectra. Molecules 2021; 26:7247. [PMID: 34885829 PMCID: PMC8658867 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26237247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2021] [Revised: 11/23/2021] [Accepted: 11/24/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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In this work, we report a complete analysis by theoretical and spectroscopic methods of the short-time behaviour of 4-(dimethylamino)benzonitrile (DMABN) in the gas phase as well as in cyclohexane, tetrahydrofuran, acetonitrile, and water solution, after excitation to the La state. The spectroscopic properties of DMABN were investigated experimentally using UV absorption and fluorescence emission spectroscopy. The computational study was developed at different electronic structure levels and using the Polarisable Continuum Model (PCM) and explicit solvent molecules to reproduce the solvent environment. Additionally, excited state quantum dynamics simulations in the diabatic picture using the direct dynamics variational multiconfigurational Gaussian (DD-vMCG) method were performed, the largest quantum dynamics "on-the-fly" simulations performed with this method until now. The comparison with fully converged multilayer multiconfigurational time-dependent Hartree (ML-MCTDH) dynamics on parametrised linear vibronic coupling (LVC) potentials show very similar population decays and evolution of the nuclear wavepacket. The ring C=C stretching and three methyl tilting modes are identified as the responsible motions for the internal conversion from the La to the Lb states. No major differences are observed in the ultrafast initial decay in different solvents, but we show that this effect depends strongly on the level of electronic structure used.
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- Sandra Gómez
- Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, UK;
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, UK;
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Kochman MA, Durbeej B, Kubas A. Simulation and Analysis of the Transient Absorption Spectrum of 4-( N, N-Dimethylamino)benzonitrile (DMABN) in Acetonitrile. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:8635-8648. [PMID: 34550700 PMCID: PMC8503879 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c06166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2021] [Revised: 09/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Abstract
4-(N,N-Dimethylamino)benzonitrile (DMABN) is a well-known model compound for dual fluorescence-in sufficiently polar solvents, it exhibits two distinct fluorescence emission bands. The interpretation of its transient absorption (TA) spectrum in the visible range is the subject of a long-standing controversy. In the present study, we resolve this issue by calculating the TA spectrum on the basis of nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations. An unambiguous assignment of spectral signals to specific excited-state structures is achieved by breaking down the calculated spectrum into contributions from twisted and nontwisted molecular geometries. In particular, the much-discussed excited-state absorption band near 1.7 eV (ca. 700 nm) is attributed to the near-planar locally excited (LE) minimum on the S1 state. On the technical side, our study demonstrates that the second-order approximate coupled cluster singles and doubles (CC2) method can be used successfully to calculate the TA spectra of moderately large organic molecules, provided that the system in question does not approach a crossing between the lowest excited state and the singlet ground state within the time frame of the simulation.
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- Michał Andrzej Kochman
- Institute
of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of
Sciences, Ul. Marcina Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warszawa, Poland
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- Division
of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology
(IFM), Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden
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- Institute
of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of
Sciences, Ul. Marcina Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warszawa, Poland
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Kochman MA, Palczewski K, Kubas A. Theoretical Study of the Photoisomerization Mechanism of All- Trans-Retinyl Acetate. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:8358-8372. [PMID: 34546761 PMCID: PMC8488936 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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The compound 9-cis-retinyl acetate (9-cis-RAc) is a precursor
to 9-cis-retinal,
which has potential application in the treatment of some hereditary
diseases of the retina. An attractive synthetic route to 9-cis-RAc is based on the photoisomerization reaction of the
readily available all-trans-RAc. In the present study,
we examine the mechanism of the photoisomerization reaction with the
use of state-of-the-art electronic structure calculations for two
polyenic model compounds: tEtEt-octatetraene and tEtEtEc-2,6-dimethyl-1,3,5,7,9-decapentaene. The occurrence
of photoisomerization is attributed to a chain-kinking mechanism,
whereby a series of S1/S0 conical intersections
associated with kinking deformations at different positions along
the polyenic chain mediate internal conversion to the S0 state, and subsequent isomerization around one of the double bonds.
Two other possible photoisomerization mechanisms are taken into account,
but they are rejected as incompatible with simulation results and/or
the available spectroscopic data.
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- Michał Andrzej Kochman
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Ul. Marcina Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warszawa, Poland
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Gavin Herbert Eye Institute, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, United States.,Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, United States.,Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, United States
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Ul. Marcina Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warszawa, Poland
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Kretz B, Egger DA. Accurate Molecular Geometries in Complex Excited-State Potential Energy Surfaces from Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 17:357-366. [PMID: 33284603 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00858] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The interplay of electronic excitations and structural changes in molecules impacts nonradiative decay and charge transfer in the excited state, thus influencing excited-state lifetimes and photocatalytic reaction rates in optoelectronic and energy devices. To capture such effects requires computational methods providing an accurate description of excited-state potential energy surfaces and geometries. We suggest time-dependent density functional theory using optimally tuned range-separated hybrid (OT-RSH) functionals as an accurate approach to obtain excited-state molecular geometries. We show that OT-RSH provides accurate molecular geometries in excited-state potential energy surfaces that are complex and involve an interplay of local and charge-transfer excitations, for which conventional semilocal and hybrid functionals fail. At the same time, the nonempirical OT-RSH approach maintains the high accuracy of parametrized functionals (e.g., B3LYP) for predicting excited-state geometries of small organic molecules showing valence excited states.
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- Bernhard Kretz
- Department of Physics, Technical University of Munich, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Technical University of Munich, James-Franck-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
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Otis L, Craig I, Neuscamman E. A hybrid approach to excited-state-specific variational Monte Carlo and doubly excited states. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:234105. [PMID: 33353344 DOI: 10.1063/5.0024572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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We extend our hybrid linear-method/accelerated-descent variational Monte Carlo optimization approach to excited states and investigate its efficacy in double excitations. In addition to showing a superior statistical efficiency when compared to the linear method, our tests on small molecules show good energetic agreement with benchmark methods. We also demonstrate the ability to treat double excitations in systems that are too large for a full treatment by using selected configuration interaction methods via an application to 4-aminobenzonitrile. Finally, we investigate the stability of state-specific variance optimization against collapse to other states' variance minima and find that symmetry, Ansatz quality, and sample size all have roles to play in achieving stability.
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- Leon Otis
- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Kochman MA, Durbeej B. Simulating the Nonadiabatic Relaxation Dynamics of 4-( N, N-Dimethylamino)benzonitrile (DMABN) in Polar Solution. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:2193-2206. [PMID: 32083861 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b10588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The compound 4-(N,N-dimethylamino)benzonitrile (DMABN) represents the archetypal system for dual fluorescence, a rare photophysical phenomenon in which a given fluorophore shows two distinct emission bands. Despite extensive studies, the underlying mechanism remains the subject of debate. In the present contribution, we address this issue by simulating the excited-state relaxation process of DMABN as it occurs in polar solution. The potential energy surfaces for the system are constructed with the use of the additive quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) method, and the coupled dynamics of the electronic wave function and the nuclei is propagated with the semiclassical fewest switches surface hopping method. The DMABN molecule, which comprises the QM subsystem, is treated with the use of the second-order algebraic diagrammatic construction (ADC(2)) method with the imposition of spin-opposite scaling (SOS). It is verified that this level of theory achieves a realistic description of the excited-state potential energy surfaces of DMABN. The simulation results qualitatively reproduce the main features of the experimentally observed fluorescence spectrum, thus allowing the unambiguous assignment of the two fluorescence bands: the normal band is due to the near-planar locally excited (LE) structure of DMABN, while the so-called "anomalous" second band arises from the twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) structure. The transformation of the LE structure into the TICT structure takes place directly via intramolecular rotation, and is not mediated by another excited-state structure. In particular, the oft-discussed rehybridized intramolecular charge transfer (RICT) structure, which is characterized by a bent nitrile group, does not play a role in the relaxation process.
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- Michał Andrzej Kochman
- Division of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden.,Department of Chemistry, University College London (UCL), 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0A, United Kingdom
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- Division of Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden
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Ibele LM, Nicolson A, Curchod BFE. Excited-state dynamics of molecules with classically driven trajectories and Gaussians. Mol Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2019.1665199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Lea M. Ibele
- Department of Chemistry, Durham University, Durham, UK
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Heo W, Joo T. Molecular Dynamics of Excited State Intramolecular Charge Transfer in Solution by Coherent Nuclear Wave Packets. Chemphyschem 2019; 20:1448-1455. [PMID: 30974028 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201801103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2018] [Revised: 04/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Revealing a proper reaction coordinate in a chemical reaction is the key step towards elucidation of the molecular reaction dynamics. In this report, we investigated the dynamics of intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) of 8-aminopyrene-1,3,6-trisulfonic acid (APTS) occurring in the excited state by time-resolved fluorescence (TF) and TF spectra. Accurate reaction rates and rate-dependent nuclear wave packets in the product state allow detailed investigation of the molecular reaction dynamics. The ICT rate is solvent dependent: (34 fs)-1 , (87 fs)-1 , and (∞)-1 in water, formamide, and dimethylformamide, respectively. By recording spectra of the nuclear wave packets for different reaction rates, chemical species responsible for the emission spectra can be positively identified. The origin of the wave packets can be deduced from the amplitude change of the wave packets at different reaction rates, and the vibrational modes that are associated with the reaction coordinate could be identified. Theoretical calculations of the vibrational reorganization energies reproduce the experimental spectrum of the nuclear wave packets and corroborate the conclusions.
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- Wooseok Heo
- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 37673, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, 37673, South Korea
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Maschietto F, Sanz García J, Campetella M, Ciofini I. Using density based indexes to characterize excited states evolution. J Comput Chem 2019; 40:650-656. [PMID: 30549077 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.25750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/02/2018] [Revised: 09/10/2018] [Accepted: 09/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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With the aim of offering new computational tools helping in the description of photochemical reactions and phenomena occurring at the excited state, we present in this work the capability of a density based index (Π) in locating decay channels from higher to lower excited states. The Π index, previously applied to disclose non-radiative decay channels from the first excited state to the ground state, is very simple in its formulation and can be evaluated, practically with no extra computational cost, and coupled to any quantum method able to provide excited states densities. Indeed, this index relies only on the knowledge of energetics and electron densities of the different electronic states involved in the decay. In the present work, we show the proficiency of the Π index in the general case of decay between excited states by applying it to two model systems well characterized both theoretically and experimentally. In both cases, this descriptor was successful in spotting the regions where excited states are more likely to decay, thus suggesting its potential interest for further application in the design of new compounds. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Federica Maschietto
- Chimie ParisTech, PSL Research University, CNRS, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris, F-75005, Paris, France
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- Chimie ParisTech, PSL Research University, CNRS, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris, F-75005, Paris, France
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- Chimie ParisTech, PSL Research University, CNRS, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris, F-75005, Paris, France
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- Chimie ParisTech, PSL Research University, CNRS, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris, F-75005, Paris, France
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Aldaz C, Kammeraad JA, Zimmerman PM. Discovery of conical intersection mediated photochemistry with growing string methods. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:27394-27405. [PMID: 30357173 PMCID: PMC6532651 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp04703k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Conical intersections (CIs) are important features of photochemistry that determine yields and selectivity. Traditional CI optimizers require significant human effort and chemical intuition, which typically restricts searching to only a small region of the CI space. Herein, a systematic approach utilizing the growing string method is introduced to locate multiple CIs. Unintuitive MECI are found using driving coordinates that can be generated using a combinatorial search, and subsequent optimization allows reaction pathways, transition states, products, and seam-space pathways to be located. These capabilities are demonstrated by application to two prototypical photoisomerization reactions and the dimerization of butadiene. In total, many reaction pathways were uncovered, including the elusive stilbene hula-twist mechanism, and a previously unidentified product in butadiene dimerization. Overall, these results suggest that growing string methods provide a predictive strategy for exploring photochemistry.
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- Cody Aldaz
- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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Rankine CD, Nunes JPF, Feixas TWBL, Young S, Wann DA. Structure of 4-(Dimethylamino)benzonitrile Using Gas Electron Diffraction: A New Lease of Life for the Only Gas Electron Diffractometer in the U.K. . J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:5656-5665. [PMID: 29870255 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b03613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The continued demand for gas-phase molecular structures has led to the recommissioning of a gas electron diffractometer, formerly housed at the University of Reading. The gas electron diffractometer, now the only one of its kind in the U.K., is currently housed at the University of York, where it is now used routinely to determine directly structures of isolated molecules in the gas phase. The instrument has been fitted with an air-heated nozzle assembly to increase the range of molecules accessible to study in the gas phase; the efficacy of this assembly is demonstrated in this article via the determination of the gas-phase structure of 4-(dimethylamino)benzonitrile (DMABN) at high temperature. A series of complementary theoretical calculations using the B2PLYP DFT functional of Grimme et al. with correlation-consistent basis sets of double, triple, and quadruple-ζ quality are also presented. The agreement between the experimental and theoretical structural parameters attests to the accuracy of the applied theoretical calculations and of our gas-phase structural solution.
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- Conor D Rankine
- Department of Chemistry , University of York , Heslington, York YO10 5DD , U.K
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- Department of Chemistry , University of York , Heslington, York YO10 5DD , U.K
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- Department of Chemistry , University of York , Heslington, York YO10 5DD , U.K
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- Department of Chemistry , University of York , Heslington, York YO10 5DD , U.K
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Nabavi SH, Khodabandeh MH, Golbabaee M, Moshaii A, Davari MD. Excited states study reveals the twisted geometry induced large stokes shift in DCM fluorescent dye. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2017.05.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Gao A, Li J, Wang D, Ma X, Wang M. Nonadiabatic dynamics simulation of photoisomerization mechanism of the second stablest isomer of N-salicilydenemethylfurylamine. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2018; 191:315-324. [PMID: 29055276 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2017.10.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2017] [Revised: 10/07/2017] [Accepted: 10/12/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The photoisomerization processes of the second stablest isomer in the aromatic Schiff base, N-salicilydenemethylfurylamine, in the gas phase have been studied by static electronic structure calculations and surface-hopping dynamics simulations based on the Zhu-Nakamura theory. Various stable structures are obtained in the optimization because of different orientations of methyl-furyl part with respect to the salicylaldimine part and different orientations of hydroxy group with respect to the benzene ring. Upon photoexcitation into the first excited state, bond isomerization in the salicylaldimine part is completely suppressed until the strong excited-state hydrogen bond is broken. The decay pathway involves two excited-state minima, one in cis-enol form and the other in cis-keto form. After the excited-state proton transfer, twists of bonds lead to a conical intersection between the ground and excited states. After internal conversion around a conical intersection, the molecule is stabilized in cis- or trans-keto form. If the reverse hydrogen transfer process occurs in the ground state, the molecule will finally end up in the cis-enol region. The cis-keto and trans-keto isomers are observed as photoproducts. According to our full-dimensional nonadiabatic dynamics simulations, we find the excited-state intramolecular proton transfer and torsions of three single bonds in the chain to be responsible for photoisomerization of the second stablest isomer of N-salicilydenemethylfurylamine.
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- Aihua Gao
- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, China.
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- Technical Test Center, Shengli Oil-field, Sinopec, Dongying 257000, China
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, China
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, China
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Ludong University, Yantai 264025, China.
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Dereka B, Svechkarev D, Rosspeintner A, Tromayer M, Liska R, Mohs AM, Vauthey E. Direct Observation of a Photochemical Alkyne–Allene Reaction and of a Twisted and Rehybridized Intramolecular Charge-Transfer State in a Donor–Acceptor Dyad. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:16885-16893. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b09591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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- Bogdan Dereka
- Department of Physical
Chemistry, University of Geneva, 30 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Physical
Chemistry, University of Geneva, 30 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Getreidemarkt 9/163/MC, 1060 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Getreidemarkt 9/163/MC, 1060 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Physical
Chemistry, University of Geneva, 30 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Gao AH, Wang MS. Nonadiabaticab initiomolecular dynamics study of photoisomerization inN-salicilydenemethylfurylamine (SMFA). J Chem Phys 2017; 146:124312. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4979060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Medders GR, Alguire EC, Jain A, Subotnik JE. Ultrafast Electronic Relaxation through a Conical Intersection: Nonadiabatic Dynamics Disentangled through an Oscillator Strength-Based Diabatization Framework. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:1425-1434. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b12120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Gregory R. Medders
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
- Stanford
PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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Zachariasse KA, Demeter A, Druzhinin SI. Absence of Intramolecular Charge Transfer with 4-Fluoro-N,N-dimethylaniline (DMA4F), Contrary to an Experimental Report Supported by Computations. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:1223-1232. [PMID: 28099017 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b12142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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With 4-fluoro-N,N-dimethylaniline (DMA4F), only a single fluorescence from a locally excited (LE) state is observed, irrespective of solvent polarity, temperature, and excitation wavelength. The relatively small excited state dipole moment μe = 7.3 D confirms the identification as LE. The single exponential fluorescence decays in the nonpolar n-hexane (2.04 ns) and in the strongly polar acetonitrile (5.73 ns) are a further support. Similar results are obtained with 4-chloro-N,N-dimethylaniline (DMA4Cl), having a chlorobenzene subgroup, a somewhat better electron acceptor than the fluorobenzene moiety in DMA4F. The absence of intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) with DMA4F is in accord with its large energy gap ΔE(S1,S2) of 8300 cm-1 in n-hexane between the two lowest singlet excited states, which is even larger than that (6300 cm-1) of N,N-dimethylaniline (DMA), for which an LE → ICT reaction likewise does not occur. The results with DMA4F are in contradiction with a publication by Fujiwara et al. ( Chem. Phys. Lett. 2013 , 586 , 70 ), in which the appearance of dual LE + ICT emission is reported for DMA4F in n-hexane and MeCN at room temperature. The ICT/LE fluorescence quantum yield ratio Φ'(ICT)/Φ(LE) reached a maximum value of ∼2, in n-hexane and surprisingly also in MeCN, as the excitation wavelength approaches the red-edge of the absorption spectrum. These, in our opinion, erroneous observations were supported by time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations, which compute a perpendicularly twisted lowest ICT state (TICT) state. This is a further example of the general tendency of computations to find a TICT conformation for the lowest excited singlet state of electron donor/acceptor molecules such as p-substituted anilines.
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- Klaas A Zachariasse
- Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Spektroskopie und Photochemische Kinetik , 37070 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences , P.O. Box 286, 1519 Budapest, Hungary
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- Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Spektroskopie und Photochemische Kinetik , 37070 Göttingen, Germany
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Curchod BFE, Sisto A, Martínez TJ. Ab Initio Multiple Spawning Photochemical Dynamics of DMABN Using GPUs. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:265-276. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b09962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Basile F. E. Curchod
- Department
of Chemistry and the PULSE Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and the PULSE Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and the PULSE Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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Kumpulainen T, Lang B, Rosspeintner A, Vauthey E. Ultrafast Elementary Photochemical Processes of Organic Molecules in Liquid Solution. Chem Rev 2016; 117:10826-10939. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 249] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Tatu Kumpulainen
- Department of Physical Chemistry,
Sciences II, University of Geneva, 30 Quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Department of Physical Chemistry,
Sciences II, University of Geneva, 30 Quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Department of Physical Chemistry,
Sciences II, University of Geneva, 30 Quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Department of Physical Chemistry,
Sciences II, University of Geneva, 30 Quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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Yang D, Zheng R, Wang Y, Lv J. A Theoretical Investigation on Intramolecular Hydrogen Bond: The ESIPT Mechanism of dmahf Sensor. J CLUST SCI 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s10876-016-1090-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Du L, Lan Z. An On-the-Fly Surface-Hopping Program JADE for Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics of Polyatomic Systems: Implementation and Applications. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 11:1360-74. [PMID: 26574348 DOI: 10.1021/ct501106d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Nonadiabatic dynamics simulations have rapidly become an indispensable tool for understanding ultrafast photochemical processes in complex systems. Here, we present our recently developed on-the-fly nonadiabatic dynamics package, JADE, which allows researchers to perform nonadiabatic excited-state dynamics simulations of polyatomic systems at an all-atomic level. The nonadiabatic dynamics is based on Tully's surface-hopping approach. Currently, several electronic structure methods (CIS, TDHF, TDDFT(RPA/TDA), and ADC(2)) are supported, especially TDDFT, aiming at performing nonadiabatic dynamics on medium- to large-sized molecules. The JADE package has been interfaced with several quantum chemistry codes, including Turbomole, Gaussian, and Gamess (US). To consider environmental effects, the Langevin dynamics was introduced as an easy-to-use scheme into the standard surface-hopping dynamics. The JADE package is mainly written in Fortran for greater numerical performance and Python for flexible interface construction, with the intent of providing open-source, easy-to-use, well-modularized, and intuitive software in the field of simulations of photochemical and photophysical processes. To illustrate the possible applications of the JADE package, we present a few applications of excited-state dynamics for various polyatomic systems, such as the methaniminium cation, fullerene (C20), p-dimethylaminobenzonitrile (DMABN) and its primary amino derivative aminobenzonitrile (ABN), and 10-hydroxybenzo[h]quinoline (10-HBQ).
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- Likai Du
- Key Laboratory of Biobased Materials, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Qingdao, 266101 Shandong, People's Republic of China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China.,The Qingdao Key Lab of Solar Energy Utilization and Energy Storage Technology, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Qingdao, 266101 Shandong, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Biobased Materials, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Qingdao, 266101 Shandong, People's Republic of China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China.,The Qingdao Key Lab of Solar Energy Utilization and Energy Storage Technology, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Qingdao, 266101 Shandong, People's Republic of China
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Ethynyl substitution effect on the electronic excitation spectra of aniline. Chem Res Chin Univ 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s40242-016-5355-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Yang D, Li P, Zheng R, Wang Y, Lv J. A research on excited-state intramolecular proton-transfer mechanism of a new chemosensor. Theor Chem Acc 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-015-1802-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Segado M, Gómez I, Reguero M. Intramolecular charge transfer in aminobenzonitriles and tetrafluoro counterparts: fluorescence explained by competition between low-lying excited states and radiationless deactivation. Part I: A mechanistic overview of the parent system ABN. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:6861-74. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp04690d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The simplicity of the fluorescence pattern of ABN is in fact the outcome of an intricate interplay between locally excited and charge transfer excited states.
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- Mireia Segado
- Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica
- Facultat de Química
- Universitat Rovira i Virgili
- Tarragona
- Spain
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- Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica
- Facultat de Química
- Universitat Rovira i Virgili
- Tarragona
- Spain
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- Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica
- Facultat de Química
- Universitat Rovira i Virgili
- Tarragona
- Spain
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Segado M, Mercier Y, Gómez I, Reguero M. Intramolecular charge transfer in aminobenzonitriles and tetrafluoro counterparts: fluorescence explained by competition between low lying excited states and radiationless deactivation. Part II: influence of substitution on luminescence patterns. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:6875-84. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp04693a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Same fluorescence paterns, diferent topographies of excited states.
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- Mireia Segado
- Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica
- Universitat Rovira i Virgili
- 43007-Tarragona
- Spain
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- Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica
- Universitat Rovira i Virgili
- 43007-Tarragona
- Spain
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- Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica
- Universitat Rovira i Virgili
- 43007-Tarragona
- Spain
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- Departament de Química Física i Inorgànica
- Universitat Rovira i Virgili
- 43007-Tarragona
- Spain
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Georgieva I, Aquino AJA, Plasser F, Trendafilova N, Köhn A, Lischka H. Intramolecular Charge-Transfer Excited-State Processes in 4-(N,N-Dimethylamino)benzonitrile: The Role of Twisting and the πσ* State. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:6232-43. [PMID: 25989536 PMCID: PMC4476306 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b03282] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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The
structural processes leading to dual fluorescence of 4-(dimethylamino)benzonitrile
in the gas phase and in acetonitrile solvent were investigated using
a combination of multireference configuration interaction (MRCI) and
the second-order algebraic diagrammatic construction (ADC(2)) methods.
Solvent effects were included on the basis of the conductor-like screening
model. The MRCI method was used for computing the nonadiabatic interaction
between the two lowest excited ππ* states (S2(La, CT) and S1(Lb, LE)) and the
corresponding minimum on the crossing seam (MXS) whereas the ADC(2)
calculations were dedicated to assessing the role of the πσ*
state. The MXS structure was found to have a twisting angle of ∼50°.
The branching space does not contain the twisting motion of the dimethylamino
group and thus is not directly involved in the deactivation process
from S2 to S1. Polar solvent effects are not
found to have a significant influence on this situation. Applying Cs symmetry restrictions, the ADC(2) calculations
show that CCN bending leads to a strong stabilization and to significant
charge transfer (CT). Nevertheless, this structure is not a minimum
but converts to the local excitation (LE) structure on releasing the
symmetry constraint. These findings suggest that the main role in
the dynamics is played by the nonadiabatic interaction of the LE and
CT states and that the main source for the dual fluorescence is the
twisted internal charge-transfer state in addition to the LE state.
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- Ivelina Georgieva
- †Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- ‡Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1061, United States.,§Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
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- §Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
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- †Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- ∥Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- ‡Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409-1061, United States.,§Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
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Perveaux A, Castro PJ, Lauvergnat D, Reguero M, Lasorne B. Intramolecular Charge Transfer in 4-Aminobenzonitrile Does Not Need the Twist and May Not Need the Bend. J Phys Chem Lett 2015; 6:1316-1320. [PMID: 26263129 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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A study combining accurate quantum chemistry and full-dimensional quantum dynamics is presented to confirm the existence of an ultrafast radiationless decay channel from the charge-transfer state to the locally excited state in 4-aminobenzonitrile. This intramolecular charge-transfer pathway proceeds through a newly found planar conical intersection, and it is shown to be more efficient in the presence of acetonitrile than in the gas phase. Our results are consistent with recent experimental observations.
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- Aurelie Perveaux
- †Laboratoire de Chimie Physique (UMR 8000), CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
- ‡Institut Charles Gerhardt (UMR 5253), CNRS, Université de Montpellier, 34095 Montpellier, France
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- §Departament de Quı́mica Fı́sica i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- †Laboratoire de Chimie Physique (UMR 8000), CNRS, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
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- §Departament de Quı́mica Fı́sica i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain
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- ‡Institut Charles Gerhardt (UMR 5253), CNRS, Université de Montpellier, 34095 Montpellier, France
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Gómez I, Castro PJ, Reguero M. Insight into the Mechanisms of Luminescence of Aminobenzonitrile and Dimethylaminobenzonitrile in Polar Solvents. An ab Initio Study. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:1983-95. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b01421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Isabel Gómez
- Departament
de Química
Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, C.
Marcel·lí Domingo 1, 43007, Tarragona , Spain
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- Departament
de Química
Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, C.
Marcel·lí Domingo 1, 43007, Tarragona , Spain
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- Departament
de Química
Física i Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, C.
Marcel·lí Domingo 1, 43007, Tarragona , Spain
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Kochman MA, Tajti A, Morrison CA, Miller RJD. Early Events in the Nonadiabatic Relaxation Dynamics of 4-(N,N-Dimethylamino)benzonitrile. J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 11:1118-28. [DOI: 10.1021/ct5010609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Michał A. Kochman
- Max Planck Institute
for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Building 99 (CFEL), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute
of Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest 1053, Hungary
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh, Joseph Black Building, David Brewster
Road, Edinburgh, Scotland EH9 3FJ
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- Max Planck Institute
for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Building 99 (CFEL), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Liu X, Cho B, Chan LY, Kwan WL, Ken Lee CL. Development of asymmetrical near infrared squaraines with large Stokes shift. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra18998e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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New asymmetrical squaraines with large Stokes shifts of up to 90 nm were synthesized. TDDFT calculations indicate that steric effects from N,N-dibutylaniline and squaraine contribute to the large geometric change, resulting in the large Stokes shift.
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- Xiaoqian Liu
- Centre for Biomedical and Life Sciences
- Department of Technology
- Innovation and Enterprise (TIE)
- Singapore Polytechnic
- Singapore
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- Energetics Research Institute (EnRI)
- Nanyang Technological University
- Singapore
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- Centre for Biomedical and Life Sciences
- Department of Technology
- Innovation and Enterprise (TIE)
- Singapore Polytechnic
- Singapore
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- Engineering Product Development
- Singapore University of Technology and Design
- Singapore
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- Centre for Biomedical and Life Sciences
- Department of Technology
- Innovation and Enterprise (TIE)
- Singapore Polytechnic
- Singapore
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Sayed M, Biedermann F, Uzunova VD, Assaf KI, Bhasikuttan AC, Pal H, Nau WM, Mohanty J. Triple emission from p-dimethylaminobenzonitrile-cucurbit[8]uril triggers the elusive excimer emission. Chemistry 2014; 21:691-6. [PMID: 25393034 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201404902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The intriguing dual-emission behavior of p- dimethylaminobenzonitrile (DMABN) and the identity of the associated excited states is, arguably, the most extensively investigated and also controversially discussed molecule- specific phenomenon of modern photochemistry. We have now found a new, third fluorescence band when DMABN is encapsulated within the water-soluble molecular container cucurbit[8]uril (CB8). It is centered between the previously observed emissions and assigned to the elusive excimer emission from DMABN through 1:2 CB8:DMABN complex formation. Heating of the CB8⋅(DMABN)2 complex from 0 to 100 °C results in the dissociation of the ternary complex and restoration of the dual-emission properties of the monomer. Alternatively, monomer emission can be obtained by selecting cucurbit[7]uril (CB7), a host homologue that is too small to accommodate two DMABN molecules, or by introducing ethyl instead of methyl groups at the amino terminus of the aminobenzonitrile guest.
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- Mhejabeen Sayed
- Radiation & Photochemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400 085 (India), Fax: (+91) 22-25505151/25519613
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Aoki Y, Matsuki N, Mori T, Ikeda H, Inoue Y. Exciplex ensemble modulated by excitation mode in intramolecular charge-transfer dyad: effects of temperature, solvent polarity, and wavelength on photochemistry and photophysics of tethered naphthalene-dicyanoethene system. Org Lett 2014; 16:4888-91. [PMID: 25207472 DOI: 10.1021/ol502394g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Solvent, temperature, and excitation wavelength significantly affected the photochemical outcomes of a naphthalene-dicyanoethene system tethered by different number (n) of methylene groups (1-3). The effect of irradiation wavelength was almost negligible for 2a but pronounced for 3a. The temperature dependence and theoretical calculations indicated the diversity of exciplex conformations, an ensemble of which can be effectively altered by changing excitation wavelength to eventually switch the regioselectivity of photoreactions.
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- Yoshiaki Aoki
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University , 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita 565-0871, Japan
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Park M, Im D, Rhee YH, Joo T. Coherent and Homogeneous Intramolecular Charge-Transfer Dynamics of 1-tert-Butyl-6-cyano-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline (NTC6), a Rigid Analogue of DMABN. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:5125-34. [DOI: 10.1021/jp411227r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Myeongkee Park
- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 790-784, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 790-784, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 790-784, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang 790-784, Korea
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Mercier Y, Reguero M. Looking for the species responsible of the anomalous fluorescence band in ortho-, meta- and para-(di-tert-butylamino)benzonitrile. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2014.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Betz T, Zinn S, Graneek JB, Schnell M. Nuclear quadrupole coupling constants of two chemically distinct nitrogen atoms in 4-aminobenzonitrile. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:5164-9. [PMID: 24911139 PMCID: PMC4106272 DOI: 10.1021/jp410964w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
Abstract
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The
rotational spectrum of 4-aminobenzonitrile in the gas phase
between 2 and 8.5 GHz is reported. Due to the two chemically distinct
nitrogen atoms, the observed transitions showed a rich hyperfine structure.
From the determination of the nuclear quadrupole coupling constants,
information about the electronic environment of these atoms could
be inferred. The results are compared to data for related molecules,
especially with respect to the absence of dual fluorescence in 4-aminobenzonitrile.
In addition, the two-photon ionization spectrum of this molecule was
recorded using a time-of-flight mass spectrometer integrated into
the setup. This new experimental apparatus is presented here for the
first time.
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Affiliation(s)
- Thomas Betz
- Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter , Luruper Chaussee 149, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
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Choudhury SD, Muralidharan S, Pal H. A study on the photophysics of 9-amino-10-cyanoanthracene: probing its dual absorption and emission behavior. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:11509-18. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp00865k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
This study explores the photophysics of an interesting donor–acceptor substituted molecule, 9-amino-10-cyanoanthracene, that shows unusual dual absorption and emission behavior.
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- Center for Biomedical Engineering and Technology
- University of Maryland School of Medicine
- Baltimore, USA
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- Radiation & Photochemistry Division
- Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
- Mumbai 400 085, India
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Moghadam AJ, Omidyan R, Mirkhani V. Photophysics of a Schiff base: theoretical exploration of the excited-state deactivation mechanisms of N-salicilydenemethylfurylamine (SMFA). Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:2417-24. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp54416h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Tan WS, Prabhakar C, Liu YH, Peng SM, Yang JS. Effects of iptycene scaffolds on the photoluminescence of N,N-dimethylaminobenzonitrile and its analogues. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2014; 13:211-23. [DOI: 10.1039/c3pp50196e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Segarra-Martí J, Coto PB. A theoretical study of the intramolecular charge transfer in 4-(dimethylamino)benzethyne. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:25642-8. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp03436h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The intramolecular charge transfer process in DMABE is investigated using multireference perturbation theory methods.
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Affiliation(s)
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik
- Theoretische Festkörperphysik
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Erlangen D-91058, Germany
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Robb MA. In This Molecule There Must Be a Conical Intersection. ADVANCES IN PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-800256-8.00003-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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Catalán J. On the dual emission of p-dimethylaminobenzonitrile and its photophysical implications. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013; 15:8811-20. [PMID: 23639922 DOI: 10.1039/c3cp44627a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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A solvatochromic analysis of available absorption and LE and TICT emission data in p-dimethylaminobenzonitrile (DMABN) was conducted. Applying the Abe method to the results of a thermochromic analysis of DMABN in 1-chlorobutane (ClB) allowed us to determine the polarizability and dipole moment of the excited electronic states involved in the absorption and emission transitions. As shown herein, the LE → TICT excited state reaction for DMABN is triggered by the solvent polarity but is additionally influenced by the viscosity. The experimental evidence negates the assumption that the radiative constant for the TICT fluorescence of DMABN is temperature-dependent.
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- Javier Catalán
- Departamento de Química Física Aplicada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain.
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Rafiq S, Sen P. Dielectric controlled excited state relaxation pathways of a representative push-pull stilbene: A mechanistic study using femtosecond fluorescence up-conversion technique. J Chem Phys 2013; 138:084308. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4792933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Park M, Kim CH, Joo T. Multifaceted Ultrafast Intramolecular Charge Transfer Dynamics of 4-(Dimethylamino)benzonitrile (DMABN). J Phys Chem A 2013; 117:370-7. [DOI: 10.1021/jp310842z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Myeongkee Park
- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang
790-784, Korea
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- Max Planck
Center for Attosecond
Science (MPC-AS), POSTECH, Pohang 790-784,
Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang
790-784, Korea
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