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Dai Y, Dellai A, Bassan E, Bellatreccia C, Gualandi A, Anselmi M, Cozzi PG, Ceroni P, Negri F. Solvent and alkyl substitution effects on charge-transfer mediated triplet state generation in BODIPY dyads: a combined computational and experimental study. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2024; 23:451-462. [PMID: 38324165 DOI: 10.1007/s43630-023-00530-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 12/21/2023] [Indexed: 02/08/2024]
Abstract
Donor-acceptor dyads based on BODIPYs have been recently employed to enhance the formation of triplet excited states with the process of spin-orbit charge transfer intersystem crossing (SOCT-ISC) which does not require introduction of transition metals or other heavy atoms into the molecule. In this work we compare two donor-acceptor dyads based on meso-naphthalenyl BODIPY by combining experimental and computational investigations. The photophysical and electrochemical characterization reveals a significant effect of alkylation of the BODIPY core, disfavoring the SOCT-ISC mechanism for the ethylated BODIPY dyad. This is complemented with a computational investigation carried out to rationalize the influence of ethyl substituents and solvent effects on the electronic structure and efficiency of triplet state population via charge recombination (CR) from the photoinduced electron transfer (PeT) generated charge-transfer (CT) state. Time dependent-density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations including solvent effects and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) calculations uncover the combined role played by solvent and alkyl substitution on the lateral positions of BODIPY.
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- Yasi Dai
- Department of Chemistry Giacomo Ciamician, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Center for Chemical Catalysis-C3, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Via Selmi 2, 40126, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Giacomo Ciamician, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Giacomo Ciamician, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Center for Chemical Catalysis-C3, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Via Selmi 2, 40126, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Giacomo Ciamician, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Center for Chemical Catalysis-C3, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Via Selmi 2, 40126, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Giacomo Ciamician, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Center for Chemical Catalysis-C3, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Via Selmi 2, 40126, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Giacomo Ciamician, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Giacomo Ciamician, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Center for Chemical Catalysis-C3, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Via Selmi 2, 40126, Bologna, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry Giacomo Ciamician, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- Center for Chemical Catalysis-C3, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Via Selmi 2, 40126, Bologna, Italy.
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- Department of Chemistry Giacomo Ciamician, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
- Center for Chemical Catalysis-C3, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Via Selmi 2, 40126, Bologna, Italy.
- INSTM, UdR Bologna, Via F. Selmi, 2, 40126, Bologna, Italy.
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Ouyang Z, Gan Z, Yan L, You W, Moran AM. Measuring carrier diffusion in MAPbI3 solar cells with photocurrent-detected transient grating spectroscopy. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:094201. [PMID: 37668248 DOI: 10.1063/5.0159301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Accepted: 08/15/2023] [Indexed: 09/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Conventional time-of-flight methods can be used to determine carrier mobilities for photovoltaic cells in which the transit time between electrodes is greater than the RC time constant of the device. To measure carrier drift on sub-ns timescales, we have recently developed a two-pulse time-of-flight technique capable of detecting drift velocities with 100-ps time resolution in perovskite materials. In this method, the rates of carrier transit across the active layer of a device are determined by varying the delay time between laser pulses and measuring the magnitude of the recombination-induced nonlinearity in the photocurrent. Here, we present a related experimental approach in which diffractive optic-based transient grating spectroscopy is combined with our two-pulse time-of-flight technique to simultaneously probe drift and diffusion in orthogonal directions within the active layer of a photovoltaic cell. Carrier density gratings are generated using two time-coincident pulse-pairs with passively stabilized phases. Relaxation of the grating amplitude associated with the first pulse-pair is detected by varying the delay and phase of the density grating corresponding to the second pulse-pair. The ability of the technique to reveal carrier diffusion is demonstrated with model calculations and experiments conducted using MAPbI3 photovoltaic cells.
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- Zhenyu Ouyang
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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Kushida S, Wang K, Genet C, Ebbesen TW. Ultrafast Dynamics of Solute Molecules Probed by Resonant Optical Kerr Effect Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:9309-9315. [PMID: 36178160 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Ultrafast molecular dynamics in fluids is of great importance in many biological and chemical systems. Although such dynamics in bulk liquids has been explored by various methods, experimental tools that unveil the dynamics of solvated solutes are limited. In this work, we have developed resonant optical Kerr effect spectroscopy (ROKE), which is an analogue of optical Kerr effect spectroscopy that measures the reorientational relaxation of a dilute solute in solution. By adjusting the pump and probe wavelengths at the resonant absorption band of a solute, the time response of the solute was distinguished easily from the negligible signal of the solvent. The heterodyne detection of ROKE enables the determination of reorientational relaxation time constants with an accuracy of 2.6%. The signal-to-noise ratio was high enough (average ∼26.7) to obtain an adequate signal from even a 10 μM solution. Thus, ROKE is a powerful tool to study solute dynamics with high sensitivity in a broad range of applications.
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- Soh Kushida
- University of Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS & icFRC, 8 allée Gaspard Monge, 67000Strasbourg, France
- Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, and Tsukuba Research Center for Energy Materials Science (TREMS), University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba305-8577, Japan
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- University of Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS & icFRC, 8 allée Gaspard Monge, 67000Strasbourg, France
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- University of Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS & icFRC, 8 allée Gaspard Monge, 67000Strasbourg, France
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- University of Strasbourg, CNRS, ISIS & icFRC, 8 allée Gaspard Monge, 67000Strasbourg, France
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Effect of the iodine atom position on the phosphorescence of BODIPY derivatives: a combined computational and experimental study. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2022; 21:777-786. [PMID: 35023042 DOI: 10.1007/s43630-021-00152-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Accepted: 12/01/2021] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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A new BODIPY derivative (o-I-BDP) containing an iodine atom in the ortho position of the meso-linked phenyl group was prepared. Photophysical and electrochemical properties of the molecule were compared to previously reported iodo BODIPY derivatives, as well as to the non-iodinated analog. While in the case of derivatives featuring iodine substituents in the BODIPY core, efficient population of the triplet state is accompanied by a substantial positive shift of the reduction potential compared to pristine BODIPY, o-I-BDP displays phosphorescence and simultaneously maintains the electrochemical properties of unsubstituted BODIPYs. A theoretical investigation was settled to analyze results and rationalize the influence of iodine position on electronic and photophysical properties, with the purpose of preparing a fully organic phosphorescent BODIPY derivative. TD-DFT and spin-orbit coupling calculations shed light on the subtle effects played by the introduction of iodine atom in different positions of BODIPY.
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Sun X. Hybrid equilibrium-nonequilibrium molecular dynamics approach for two-dimensional solute-pump/solvent-probe spectroscopy. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:194507. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5130926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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- Xiang Sun
- Division of Arts and Sciences, NYU Shanghai, 1555 Century Avenue, Shanghai 200122, China; Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA; NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, 3663 Zhongshan Road North, Shanghai 200062, China; and State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
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Rey R, Hynes JT. Solvation Dynamics in Liquid Water. 1. Ultrafast Energy Fluxes. J Phys Chem B 2015; 119:7558-70. [DOI: 10.1021/jp5113922] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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- Rossend Rey
- Departament de Física
i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus
Nord B4-B5, Barcelona 08034, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0215, United States
- Chemistry Department, Ecole Normale
Supérieure,
UMR ENS-CNRS-UPMC 8640, 24 Rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France
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Sun X, Ladanyi BM, Stratt RM. Effects of Electronic-State-Dependent Solute Polarizability: Application to Solute-Pump/Solvent-Probe Spectra. J Phys Chem B 2014; 119:9129-39. [DOI: 10.1021/jp509021c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Xiang Sun
- Department
of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1872, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, United States
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Sun X, Stratt RM. How a solute-pump/solvent-probe spectroscopy can reveal structural dynamics: Polarizability response spectra as a two-dimensional solvation spectroscopy. J Chem Phys 2013; 139:044506. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4816373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Park S, Kim J, Scherer NF. Two-dimensional measurements of the solvent structural relaxation dynamics in dipolar solvation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:8116-22. [PMID: 22555862 DOI: 10.1039/c2cp40519a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Resonant-pump polarizability response spectroscopy (RP-PORS) is based on an optical heterodyne detected transient grating (OHD-TG) method with an additional resonant pump pulse. In RP-PORS, the resonant pump pulse excites the solute-solvent system and the subsequent relaxation of the solute-solvent system is monitored by the OHD-TG spectroscopy. RP-PORS is shown to be an excellent experimental tool to directly measure the solvent responses in solvation. In the present work, we extended our previous RP-PORS (Park et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, 13, 214-223) to measure time-dependent transient solvation polarizability (TSP) spectra with Coumarin153 (C153) in acetonitrile. The time-dependent TSP spectra showed how the different solvent intermolecular modes were involved in different stages of the solvation process. Most importantly, the inertial and diffusive components of the solvent intermolecular modes in solvation were found to be spectrally and temporally well-separated. In a dipolar solvation of C153, high-frequency inertial solvent modes were found to be driven instantaneously and decay on a subpicosecond timescale while low-frequency diffusive solvent modes were induced slowly and decayed on a picosecond timescale. Our present result is the first experimental manifestation of frequency-dependent solvent intermolecular response in a dipolar solvation.
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- Sungnam Park
- Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul, 136-701, Korea.
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Multidimensional Incoherent Time-Resolved Spectroscopy and Complex Kinetics. ADVANCES IN CHEMICAL PHYSICS 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/9781118197714.ch1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/04/2023]
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Shirota H. Comparison of Low-Frequency Spectra between Aromatic and Nonaromatic Cation Based Ionic Liquids Using Femtosecond Raman-Induced Kerr Effect Spectroscopy. Chemphyschem 2012; 13:1638-48. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201100731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2011] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Sun X, Stratt RM. The molecular underpinnings of a solute-pump/solvent-probe spectroscopy: the theory of polarizability response spectra and an application to preferential solvation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:6320-31. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cp24127g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [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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Hershberger MA, Moran AM, Scherer NF. New insights into response functions of liquids by electric field-resolved polarization emission time measurements. J Phys Chem B 2011; 115:5617-24. [PMID: 21449580 DOI: 10.1021/jp111796d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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We resolve information about the dynamics of simple liquids that has been obscured in prior frequency and time-domain measurements by way of full field-resolved polarization emission time (FR-PET) measurements of carbon disulfide. The amplitude and phase of the field-resolved transient-grating signal is used to calculate a spectrogram of the signal field at each delay between the transient-grating (TG) pump and probe pulses. The temporal maximum of the spectrogram, defined to be the signal emission time, varies with pump-probe delay; it follows the convolution of the TG pulses while the pulses overlap and exhibits recurrences at times when the nuclear dynamics are the main component of the liquid material response. Since this is a third-order nonlinear spectroscopic method, the isotropic and anisotropic signals are constructed from the polarization tensor components. The frequency-integrated anisotropic component of the signal is equivalent to the signal measured in optical Kerr Effect (OKE) experiments. The FR-PET determination of the signal emission times is a direct measurement of the third-order nonlinear (polarizability) polarization and, hence provides new strong constraints on appropriate models of the liquid dynamics. Models for the material response function are used to calculate the signal emission times. In particular, we show that the proper treatment of the time-correlation function for orientational motion gives the best fit to the FR-PET data for rotational diffusional motion. We also establish that librational motion is not a short-time (coherent) motion that leads to rotational diffusion. Finally, we find that the Bucaro-Litovitz form for interaction-induced dynamics is not entirely correct for the CS(2) liquid we study. We suggest that the failing may result from the implicit assumption of two-body interactions, which is only appropriate for gases.
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- Margaret A Hershberger
- Department of Chemistry and the James Frank Institute, The University of Chicago, 929 East 57th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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