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Priyanka U, Paul A, Mondal T. Vibronic coupling and ultrafast relaxation dynamics in the first five excited singlet electronic states of bithiophene. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:124301. [PMID: 38516970 DOI: 10.1063/5.0196565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2024] [Accepted: 03/06/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024] Open
Abstract
The vibronic structure and nuclear dynamics in the first five excited singlet electronic states of bithiophene (2T) are investigated here. Specifically, considerations are given to comprehend the first two structureless and broad electronic absorption bands and the role of nonadiabatic coupling in the excited state relaxation mechanism of 2T in the gas phase. Associated potential energy surfaces (PESs) are established by constructing a model vibronic coupling Hamiltonian using 18 vibrational degrees of freedom and extensive ab initio electronic structure calculations. The topographies of these PESs are critically examined, and multiple conical intersections are established. The nuclear dynamics calculations are performed by propagating wave packets on the coupled electronic manifold. The present theoretical results are in good agreement with the experimental observations. It is found that strong nonadiabatic coupling between the S1-S4 and S1-S5 states along totally symmetric modes is predominantly responsible for the structureless and broad first absorption band, and overlapping S2, S3, S4, and S5 states form the second absorption band. Photorelaxation from the highly excited S5 to the lowest S1 state takes place through a cascade of diabatic population transfers among the S1-S4-S5 electronic manifold within the first ∼100 fs. Totally symmetric C=C stretching, C-S stretching, C-H wagging, ring puckering, and inter-ring bending modes collectively drive such relaxation dynamics.
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- U Priyanka
- Department of Engineering Chemistry, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Hyderabad 500 075, India
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- Department of Engineering Chemistry, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Hyderabad 500 075, India
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- Department of Engineering Chemistry, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Hyderabad 500 075, India
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Murali SS, Gallaher JK, Janiseck C, Tay EJ, Wagner I, Thorn KE, Ilina A, Tamming RR, Wang J, Sester C, Sutton JJ, Price MB, Gordon KC, Chen K, Zhan X, Hodgkiss JM, Hume PA. Triplets with a Twist: Ultrafast Intersystem Crossing in a Series of Electron Acceptor Materials Driven by Conformational Disorder. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:732-744. [PMID: 36538761 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c12605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Control over the populations of singlet and triplet excitons is key to organic semiconductor technologies. In different contexts, triplets can represent an energy loss pathway that must be managed (i.e., solar cells, light-emitting diodes, and lasers) or provide avenues to improve energy conversion (i.e., photon upconversion and multiplication systems). A key consideration in the interplay of singlet and triplet exciton populations in these systems is the rate of intersystem crossing (ISC). In this work, we design, measure, and model a series of new electron acceptor molecules and analyze them using a combination of ultrafast transient absorption and ultrafast broadband photoluminescence spectroscopies. We demonstrate that intramolecular triplet formation occurs within several hundred picoseconds in solution and is accelerated considerably in the solid state. Importantly, ISC occurs with sufficient rapidity to compete with charge formation in modern organic solar cells, implicating triplets in intrinsic exciton loss channels in addition to charge recombination. Density functional theory calculations reveal that ISC occurs in triplet excited states characterized by local deviations from orbital π-symmetry associated with rotationally flexible thiophene rings. In disordered films, structural distortions, therefore, result in significant increases in spin-orbit coupling, enabling rapid ISC. We demonstrate the generality of this proposal in an oligothiophene model system where ISC is symmetry-forbidden and show that conformational disorder introduced by the formation of a solvent glass accelerates ISC, outweighing the lower temperature and increased viscosity. This proposal sheds light on the factors responsible for facile ISC and provides a simple framework for molecular control over spin states.
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- Sai Shruthi Murali
- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington6012, New Zealand.,MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington6012, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington6012, New Zealand.,MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington6012, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington6012, New Zealand
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin9016, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington6012, New Zealand.,MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington6012, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington6012, New Zealand.,MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington6012, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington6012, New Zealand.,MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington6012, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington6012, New Zealand.,MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington6012, New Zealand.,Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington5012, New Zealand
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- Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing100871, China
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington6012, New Zealand.,MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington6012, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington6012, New Zealand.,MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington6012, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington6012, New Zealand.,MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington6012, New Zealand
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- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington6012, New Zealand.,Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin9016, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington6012, New Zealand.,MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington6012, New Zealand.,Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington5012, New Zealand
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- Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing100871, China
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington6012, New Zealand.,MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington6012, New Zealand
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- School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington6012, New Zealand.,MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Wellington6012, New Zealand
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Guandalini A, Cocchi C, Pittalis S, Ruini A, Rozzi CA. Nonlinear light absorption in many-electron systems excited by an instantaneous electric field: a non-perturbative approach. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:10059-10069. [PMID: 33870971 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp04958a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Applications of low-cost non-perturbative approaches in real time, such as time-dependent density functional theory, for the study of nonlinear optical properties of large and complex systems are gaining increasing popularity. However, their assessment still requires the analysis and understanding of elementary dynamical processes in simple model systems. Motivated by the aim of simulating optical nonlinearities in molecules, here exemplified by the case of the quaterthiophene oligomer, we investigate light absorption in many-electron interacting systems beyond the linear regime by using a single broadband impulse of an electric field; i.e. an electrical impulse in the instantaneous limit. We determine non-pertubatively the absorption cross section from the Fourier transform of the time-dependent induced dipole moment, which can be obtained from the time evolution of the wavefunction. We discuss the dependence of the resulting cross section on the magnitude of the impulse and we highlight the advantages of this method in comparison with perturbation theory by working on a one-dimensional model system for which numerically exact solutions are accessible. Thus, we demonstrate that the considered non-pertubative approach provides us with an effective tool for investigating fluence-dependent nonlinear optical excitations.
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- Alberto Guandalini
- CNR - Istituto Nanoscienze, Via Campi 213A, I-41125 Modena, Italy. .,Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213A, I-41125 Modena, Italy
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- Physics Department and IRIS Adlershof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Zum Großen Windkanal 2, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.,Physics Department, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Straße 9, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany
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- CNR - Istituto Nanoscienze, Via Campi 213A, I-41125 Modena, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213A, I-41125 Modena, Italy
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Ghosh S, Jana B, Ghosh A, Guldi DM, Patra A. The Impact of Aggregation of Quaterthiophenes on the Excited State Dynamics. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:3424-3430. [PMID: 33789053 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Oligothiophenes and their aggregates play a dominant role in optoelectronic and light-harvesting applications. Here, we controlled the degree of aggregation of 2,2':5',2″:5'',2‴-quaterthiophene (QTH) to shed light on the impact of the aggregation on the excited state dynamics. QTH aggregation realized the control over the Intersystem Crossing (ISC) rates and, in turn, the formation of triplet excited states via the simple addition of water to QTH solutions in THF. From global target analysis, the time scale was 345.5 ps for ISC for QTHs in THF, but it was 2.33 ns in the case of QTH solutions featuring 70% water. Notably, the excitonic coupling between closely packed QTHs occurred predominantly in the aggregates formed in the presence of large water concentrations. Relaxation dynamics of the resulting QTH-aggregates differed substantially from QTH solutions at lower water content. For example, QTH-aggregates lacked any triplet excited states, and the unusual emission occurs from lower excitonic states from these predominantly H-aggregates.
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- Srijon Ghosh
- School of Materials Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstrasse 3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- School of Materials Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Interdisciplinary Center for Molecular Materials (ICMM), Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Egerlandstrasse 3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- School of Materials Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032, India
- Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Sector 81, Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Mohali, Punjab 140306, India
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McLay JRW, Sutton JJ, Shillito GE, Larsen CB, Huff GS, Lucas NT, Gordon KC. Transitioning from Intraligand π,π* to Charge-Transfer Excited States Using Thiophene-Based Donor-Acceptor Systems. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:130-139. [PMID: 33347759 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c02555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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A series of electron donor-acceptor compounds are reported in which both the donor and acceptor strengths are systematically altered using mono-, bi-, and terthiophene as donors and benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole (btd), dipyrido[3,2-a:2',3'-c]phenazine (dppz), and the corresponding rhenium(I) complex, [ReCl(CO)3(dppz)], as acceptors. The electronic properties of the compounds are characterized using electrochemistry, electronic absorbance and emission spectroscopies, and transient absorption spectroscopy. The effect of donor and acceptor strengths on frontier molecular orbital localization and on the charge-transfer (CT) character of optical transitions is modeled using density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The electronic absorption spectra of the compounds investigated are dominated by intraligand charge-transfer (ILCT) transitions, where the CT character is shown to increase across the series from mono- to bi- to terthiophene but not significantly across the acceptor series. Emission is shown to originate from the absorbing state. Long-lived nonemissive states have been observed using transient absorption spectroscopy and assigned using triplet-state DFT calculations, which indicate that the lowest energy excited state has more thiophene-localized π,π* character with an increasing number of appended thiophenes.
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- James R W McLay
- Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
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Thurston GK, Sagan CR, Garand E. Vibrationally resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of oligothiophene radical anions. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:164301. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5124925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Glen K. Thurston
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Ave., Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Ave., Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1101 University Ave., Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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Horbatenko Y, Lee S, Filatov M, Choi CH. Performance Analysis and Optimization of Mixed-Reference Spin-Flip Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (MRSF-TDDFT) for Vertical Excitation Energies and Singlet–Triplet Energy Gaps. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:7991-8000. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b07556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Yevhen Horbatenko
- Department of Chemistry, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 151747, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
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Datko BD, Livshits M, Zhang Z, Qin Y, Jakubikova E, Rack JJ, Grey JK. Large Excited-State Conformational Displacements Expedite Triplet Formation in a Small Conjugated Oligomer. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:1259-1263. [PMID: 30811200 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b00495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Intersystem crossing in conjugated organic molecules is most conveniently viewed from pure electronic perspectives; yet, vibrational displacements may often drive these transitions. We investigate an alkyl-substituted thienylene-vinylene dimer (dTV) displaying efficient triplet formation. Steady-state electronic and Raman spectra display large Stokes shifts (∼4000 cm-1) involving high-frequency skeletal symmetric stretching modes (∼900-1600 cm-1) in addition to large displacements of low-frequency torsional motions (∼300-340 cm-1). Transient absorption spectroscopy reveals the emergence of distorted singlet (S1) and triplet signatures following initial vibrational relaxation dynamics that dominate spectral dynamics on time scales > 100 ps, with the latter persisting on time scales up to ca. 7 μs. Potential energy surfaces calculated along the dominant displaced out-of-plane torsional mode reveal shallow energy barriers for entering the triplet manifold from S1. We propose that dTV is a good model system for understanding vibrational contributions to intersystem crossing events in related polymer systems.
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- Benjamin D Datko
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , University of New Mexico , Albuquerque , New Mexico 87131 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , University of New Mexico , Albuquerque , New Mexico 87131 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , University of New Mexico , Albuquerque , New Mexico 87131 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , University of New Mexico , Albuquerque , New Mexico 87131 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , North Carolina State University , Raleigh , North Carolina 27695 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , University of New Mexico , Albuquerque , New Mexico 87131 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology , University of New Mexico , Albuquerque , New Mexico 87131 , United States
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Lin Z, Van Voorhis T. Triplet Tuning: A Novel Family of Non-Empirical Exchange–Correlation Functionals. J Chem Theory Comput 2019; 15:1226-1241. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Zhou Lin
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Schnappinger T, Marazzi M, Mai S, Monari A, González L, de Vivie-Riedle R. Intersystem Crossing as a Key Component of the Nonadiabatic Relaxation Dynamics of Bithiophene and Terthiophene. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 14:4530-4540. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Thomas Schnappinger
- Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, D-81377 München, Germany
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- Departamento de Química, Centro de Investigación en Síntesis Química (CISQ), Universidad de La Rioja, 26006 Logroño, Spain
- Université
de Lorraine and CNRS, LPCT UMR 7019, F-54000 Nancy, France
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Université
de Lorraine and CNRS, LPCT UMR 7019, F-54000 Nancy, France
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, D-81377 München, Germany
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Spiegel JD, Lyskov I, Kleinschmidt M, Marian CM. Charge-transfer contributions to the excitonic coupling matrix element in BODIPY-based energy transfer cassettes. Chem Phys 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2016.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Batignani G, Pontecorvo E, Ferrante C, Aschi M, Elles CG, Scopigno T. Visualizing Excited-State Dynamics of a Diaryl Thiophene: Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Scattering as a Probe of Conjugated Molecules. J Phys Chem Lett 2016; 7:2981-8. [PMID: 27428853 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
Abstract
Conjugated organic polymers based on substituted thiophene units are versatile building blocks of many photoactive materials, such as photochromic molecular switches or solar energy conversion devices. Unraveling the different processes underlying their photochemistry, such as the evolution on different electronic states and multidimensional structural relaxation, is a challenge critical to defining their function. Using femtosecond stimulated Raman scattering (FSRS) supported by quantum chemical calculations, we visualize the reaction pathway upon photoexcitation of the model compound 2-methyl-5-phenylthiophene. Specifically, we find that the initial wavepacket dynamics of the reaction coordinates occurs within the first ≈1.5 ps, followed by a ≈10 ps thermalization. Subsequent slow opening of the thiophene ring through a cleavage of the carbon-sulfur bond triggers an intersystem crossing to the triplet excited state. Our work demonstrates how a detailed mapping of the excited-state dynamics can be obtained, combining simultaneous structural sensitivity and ultrafast temporal resolution of FSRS with the chemical information provided by time-dependent density functional theory calculations.
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- Giovanni Batignani
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza" , Roma I-00185, Italy
- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche, Universitá degli Studi dell'Aquila , L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza" , Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza" , Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche, Universitá degli Studi dell'Aquila , L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas , Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza" , Roma I-00185, Italy
- Center for Life Nano Science @Sapienza, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia , Roma I-00161, Italy
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Jovanović V, Lyskov I, Kleinschmidt M, Marian CM. On the performance of DFT/MRCI-R and MR-MP2 in spin–orbit coupling calculations on diatomics and polyatomic organic molecules. Mol Phys 2016. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2016.1201600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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- Vladimir Jovanović
- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Kölle P, Schnappinger T, de Vivie-Riedle R. Deactivation pathways of thiophene and oligothiophenes: internal conversion versus intersystem crossing. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:7903-15. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp07634j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Quantum chemical calculations reveal that excited thiophene decays via a low lying conical intersection seam. In oligothiophenes barriers inhibit this passage while deactivation pathways via intersystem crossing channels open.
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- Patrick Kölle
- Department of Chemistry
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- 81377 München
- Germany
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- Department of Chemistry
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- 81377 München
- Germany
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Assessment of Density-Functional Tight-Binding Ionization Potentials and Electron Affinities of Molecules of Interest for Organic Solar Cells Against First-Principles GW Calculations. COMPUTATION 2015. [DOI: 10.3390/computation3040616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Wang C, Angelella M, Doyle SJ, Lytwak LA, Rossky PJ, Holliday BJ, Tauber MJ. Resonance Raman Spectroscopy of the T1 Triplet Excited State of Oligothiophenes. J Phys Chem Lett 2015; 6:3521-3527. [PMID: 26291623 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The characterization of triplet excited states is essential for research on organic photovoltaics and singlet fission. We report resonance Raman spectra of two triplet oligothiophenes with n-alkyl substituents, a tetramer and hexamer. The spectra of the triplets are more complex than the ground state, and we find that density functional theory calculations are a useful starting point for characterizing the bands. The spectra of triplet tetrathiophene and hexathiophene differ significantly from one another. This observation is consistent with a T1 excitation that is delocalized over at least five rings in long oligomers. Bands in the 500-800 cm(-1) region are greatly diminished for an aggregated sample of hexathiophene, likely caused by fast electronic dephasing. These experiments highlight the potential of resonance Raman spectroscopy to unequivocally detect and characterize triplets in thiophene materials. The vibrational spectra can also serve as rigorous standards for evaluating computational methods for excited-state molecules.
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- Chen Wang
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego , La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego , La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego , La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Rice University , Houston, Texas 77251, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin , Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego , La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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Okino S, Takaya T, Iwata K. Femtosecond Time-resolved Near-infrared Spectroscopy of Oligothiophenes and Polythiophene: Energy Location and Effective Conjugation Length of Their Low-lying Excited States. CHEM LETT 2015. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.150330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Shunnosuke Okino
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Gakushuin University
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Gakushuin University
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Gakushuin University
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Prlj A, Curchod BFE, Fabrizio A, Floryan L, Corminboeuf C. Qualitatively Incorrect Features in the TDDFT Spectrum of Thiophene-Based Compounds. J Phys Chem Lett 2015; 6:13-21. [PMID: 26263085 PMCID: PMC4598019 DOI: 10.1021/jz5022087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2014] [Accepted: 12/07/2014] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Ab initio molecular electronic structure computations of thiophene-based compounds constitute an active field of research prompted by the growing interest in low-cost materials for organic electronic devices. In particular, the modeling of electronically excited states and other time-dependent phenomena has moved toward the description of more realistic albeit challenging systems. We demonstrate that due to its underlying approximations, time-dependent density functional theory predicts results that are qualitatively incorrect for thiophene and thienoacenes, although not for oligothiophene chains. The failure includes spurious state inversion and excitation characters, wrong distribution of oscillator strengths and erroneous potential energy surfaces. We briefly analyze possible origins of this behavior and identify alternative methods that alleviate these problems.
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- Antonio Prlj
- Institut
des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institut
des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department
of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Institut
des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institut
des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Departement
Chemie und Angewandte Biowissenschaften, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Institut
des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Prlj A, Curchod BFE, Corminboeuf C. Excited state dynamics of thiophene and bithiophene: new insights into theoretically challenging systems. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:14719-30. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp01429h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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ADC(2) surface hopping study of the ultrafast deactivation mechanisms for thiophene and bithiophene.
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- Antonio Prlj
- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- CH-1015 Lausanne
- Switzerland
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- CH-1015 Lausanne
- Switzerland
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- Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie Chimiques
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
- CH-1015 Lausanne
- Switzerland
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Fazzi D, Barbatti M, Thiel W. Modeling ultrafast exciton deactivation in oligothiophenes via nonadiabatic dynamics. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:7787-99. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp00019j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Nonadiabatic excited-state dynamics reveal the exciton relaxation processes in oligothiophenes. Ultrafast deactivation and exciton localization are predicted to occur within 200 fs, involving bond stretching, ring puckering, and torsional oscillations.
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- Daniele Fazzi
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
- D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
- Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
- D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
- Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
- D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr
- Germany
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Vosskötter S, Konieczny P, Marian CM, Weinkauf R. Towards an understanding of the singlet–triplet splittings in conjugated hydrocarbons: azulene investigated by anion photoelectron spectroscopy and theoretical calculations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:23573-81. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp01826a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Electron density overlaps are correlated with singlet triplet splittings: azulene as a test case.
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- Stefan Vosskötter
- Institute of Physical Chemistry
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität
- Universitätsstrasse 1
- 40225 Düsseldorf
- Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität
- Universitätsstrasse 1
- 40225 Düsseldorf
- Germany
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität
- Universitätsstrasse 1
- 40225 Düsseldorf
- Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität
- Universitätsstrasse 1
- 40225 Düsseldorf
- Germany
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Sun SM, Zhang S, Liu K, Wang YP, Zhang B. The geometry relaxation and intersystem crossing of quaterthiophene studied by femtosecond spectroscopy. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2015; 14:853-8. [DOI: 10.1039/c4pp00439f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The geometry relaxation in the singlet state and the intersystem crossing from relaxed singlet to triplet state are 70 and 398 ps, respectively.
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- Si-mei Sun
- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Wuhan 430071
- PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Wuhan 430071
- PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Wuhan 430071
- PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Wuhan 430071
- PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Wuhan 430071
- PR China
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Sun H, Autschbach J. Electronic Energy Gaps for π-Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers Calculated with Density Functional Theory. J Chem Theory Comput 2014; 10:1035-47. [DOI: 10.1021/ct4009975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Haitao Sun
- Department
of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
- Shanghai
Key Laboratory of Advanced Polymeric Materials, Key Laboratory for
Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, School of Materials
Science and Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, P. R. China
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- Department
of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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Andrzejak M, Orzeł Ł. Joint theoretical and experimental study on the phosphorescence of 2,2′-bithiophene. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:5605-12. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp55221g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Second Harmonic Generation, Electrooptical Pockels Effect, and Static First-Order Hyperpolarizabilities of 2,2′-Bithiophene Conformers: An HF, MP2, and DFT Theoretical Investigation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.1155/2013/394697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The static and dynamic electronic (hyper)polarizabilities of the equilibrium conformations of 2,2′-bithiophene (anti-gauche and syn-gauche) were computed in the gas phase. The calculations were carried out using Hartree-Fock (HF), Møller-Plesset second-order perturbation theory (MP2), and density functional theory methods. The properties were evaluated for the second harmonic generation (SHG), and electrooptical Pockels effect (EOPE) nonlinear optical processes at the typical λ=1064 nm of the Nd:YAG laser. The anti-gauche form characterized by the S–C2–C2′–S dihedral angle of 137° (MP2/6-311G**) is the global minimum on the potential energy surface, whereas the syn-gauche rotamer (S–C2–C2′–S = 48°, MP2/6-311G**) lies ca. 0.5 kcal/mol above the anti-gauche form. The structural properties of the gauche structures are rather similar to each other. The MP2 electron correlation effects are dramatic for the first-order hyperpolarizabilities of the 2,2′-bithiophenes, decreasing the HF values by ca. a factor of three. When passing from the anti-gauche to the syn-gauche conformer, the static and frequency-dependent first-order hyperpolarizabilities increase by ca. a factor of two. Differently, the electronic polarizabilities and second-order hyperpolarizabilities of these rotamers are rather close to each other. The syn-gauche structure could be discriminated from the anti-gauche one through its much more intense SHG and EOPE signals.
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Aschi M, Amadei A, Pellegrino A, Perin N, Po’ R. Thermal and environmental effects on Oligothiophene low-energy singlet electronic excitations in dilute solution: a theoretical and experimental study. Theor Chem Acc 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-012-1177-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Zheldakov IL, Wasylenko JM, Elles CG. Excited-state dynamics and efficient triplet formation in phenylthiophene compounds. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:6211-8. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cp23602h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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