Raman excitation of (+)‐(R)‐methyloxirane and its origin of optical activity via bond polarizabilities

We studied the bond polarizabilities of chiral (+)‐(R)‐methyloxirane from its Raman intensities. The bond polarizabilities provide much information concerning the electronic structure of its nonresonant Raman‐excited virtual state. At the initial moment of Raman excitation by the 514.5 nm laser, the tendency of the excited charges (mapped out by the bond polarizabilities) is to spread to the methine bond near the stereogenic center and its triangular oxirane skeleton. Thereby, the coupling of the electric dipole induced by the excited charges in the methine bond and the magnetic moment vibrationally induced by the electric current in the triangular oxirane skeleton as the molecule vibrates is shown to be the key factor leading to its significant Raman chirality. When the final stage of Raman relaxation is approached, the relative magnitudes of the bond polarizabilities are congruent to the bond electronic densities of the ground state, which are otherwise by the theoretical quantities via the quantum chemical calculation. During Raman relaxation, we found that the polarizabilities of the peripheral C H bonds relax faster than the rest, as indicated by their relaxation characteristic times. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Temporal electronic structures of nonresonant Raman excited virtual states: a case study of ethylene thiourea

An algorithm is employed to elucidate molecular bond polarizabilities of ethylene thiourea including their temporal relaxation from Raman intensities, which provide much information concerning the electronic distribution of nonresonant Raman excited virtual states. The main character of the excited states of ethylene thiourea is that the excited electrons tend to flow to the molecular periphery because of electronic repulsion. It is noted that the bond electronic densities of the ground state can be mapped out by the bond polarizabilities at the final stage of relaxation. The relaxation time is shown to be proportional to the wavelength of the exciting light in agreement with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, showing that the excitations are indeed not the stationary eigenstates. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

甲基紫分子拉曼激发虚态的研究

从拉曼峰强入手,求得了甲基紫分子的“时间分辨键极化率”,并与第一原理计算的基态电子密度做对比,讨论了该分子的激发拉曼虚态的性质.研究结果表明,该分子的拉曼激发虚态中电子向分子外围以及两环之间的键流动,并且拉曼弛豫后的键极化率分布与基态电子的密度分布相似.通过研究键极化率的弛豫过程,发现连接两环的键上的键极化率弛豫时间较其他键大.这些结果说明了甲基紫这类双环分子拉曼激发虚态的性质,这对于研究拉曼散射的中间态具有一定意义. 关键词： 拉曼峰强 时间分辨键极化率 弛豫特征时间     

咔唑分子拉曼激发虚态的相关研究

根据键极化率与拉曼峰强之间的关系,得到咔唑分子拉曼激发虚态随时间演化的键极化率. 将得到的键极化率的末态与用密度泛函理论得到的基态键电荷密度进行了对比,讨论并分析了拉曼激发虚态键极化率随时间弛豫的特征. 研究表明:咔唑分子在拉曼激发初态时,电子由两个骨架六元环向连通两六元环的连通键上流动,而并非向外围的C–H键上流动. 拉曼激发末态键极化率分布趋势与基态键电荷密度分布很相似,说明激发的电子又流回到分子骨架,即弛豫到基态. 通过对拉曼激发虚态键极化率弛豫过程特征时间的研究,发现连通两六元环的C–C键以及靠近连通键的C–C键的键极化率的弛豫时间较其他键的极化率弛豫时间都长,进一步说明了拉曼激发虚态电子弛豫特征. 这些结果反映了咔唑这类具有连通键的多元环分子在拉曼激发虚态所具有的特征与性质,这对拉曼激发虚态的研究有重要意义. 关键词： 拉曼峰强 键极化率 拉曼激发虚态     

The evaluation of temporal electronic structures of nonresonant Raman excited virtual state of thiourea

An algorithm has been introduced to calculate molecular bond polarizabilities of thiourea, which supply essential electronic information about the nonresonant Raman excited virtual states. The main dynamical behaviour of the excited virtual states of thiourea is that the Raman excited electrons tend to flow to the N-H bonds and C-N bonds from the S-C bonds because of the electronic repulsion effect. The difference in Raman excited electron relaxation time of thiourea under 514.5-nm and 325-nm excitations has been observed, which quantitatively shows that the Raman scattering process is dependent on the wavelength of the pumping laser. Finally, the distribution of the electrons at the final stage of relaxation is given out through the comparison between the bond electronic densities of the ground states and the bond polarizabilities after deexcitation.     

亚乙基硫脲分子激发拉曼虚态的研究

本文从拉曼峰强入手,求得了亚乙基硫脲(ETU)分子的"时间分辨键极化率",并讨论了该分子的激发拉曼虚态性质,发现了该分子"激发虚态电子向分子外围键流动"、"电子弛豫后的键极化率分布与基态电子的密度分布相似"、"不同激发波长下的键极化率衰减时间满足不确定关系"等特点。本文还研究了该分子的表面增强拉曼光谱,指出"电荷转移机制"的极化率弛豫时间长于"电磁增强机制"等与表面增强拉曼效应相关的结论。     

亚乙基硫脲分子键伸缩模式与全耦合模式键极化率的对比及其拉曼激发虚态的相关研究

从拉曼峰强着手,得到了键伸缩模式与全耦合模式两种不同计算条件下,亚乙基硫脲(ethylene thiourea,ETU)分子的键极化率,并比较分析了两种计算结果的异同.研究表明:在键伸缩模式的算法中,仅考虑势能分布中键对称伸缩比重相对较大的部分拉曼峰参与极化率计算,显然忽略了键伸缩与键弯曲间的相互耦合,造成了与弯曲振动耦合较强的部分键伸缩极化率值存在一定误差.因此,此方法虽能使问题简化,但却丢失了一些信息.而全耦合模式算法考虑了所有振动模式(键伸缩与键弯曲)相互影响的情况,能更全面的反映键电荷的分布情况,但却会使问题的求解过程变得复杂.同时,在拉曼激发虚态的相关研究中,两种计算方法却得到几乎一致的键极化率弛豫方式(呈单指数规律衰减)及相同的衰减特征时间.     

Electronic structure and spectra of NH-isomers of isobacteriochlorin

Using the restricted and unrestricted Hartree-Fock method (RHF and UHF) with the AM1 Hamiltonian, we have calculated the geometric structure of the NH-isomers of isobacteriochlorin and its meso-cyano derivative. We have used the CNDO/S method for all the considered structures to calculate the transitions to excited electronic states. We have analyzed the effect of taking into account electron correlation on the results of the calculations of the chemical and geometric structure and the electronic spectra. For the a isomer with the imino hydrogens opposite each other, we obtained a planar structure corresponding to literature x-ray diffraction data. For the aromatic c isomer and other isomers with the imino hydrogens adjacent to each other, the calculations lead to a substantial nonplanarity of the macrocycle (defined mainly by the tilt of the pyrrole rings) and also deviation of the NH bond from the plane of the pyrrole ring. The ground-state energies of the a and c isomers have close values, which generally explains the observed NH tautomerism. We calculated the dipole moments of the isomers in the ground state and the excited state. The results of the calculation of the characteristics of the excited states with UHF geometry on the whole seem to be preferred over those with RHF geometry. We show that only for the aromatic c isomer can we describe the electronic absorption spectrum within a four-orbital model. __________ Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 73, No. 2, pp. 232–245, March–April, 2006.     

Bridge Effect in Charge Transfer Absorption Bands. Para-substituted Benzylideneacetones

Abstract

The electronic absorption charge transfer bands in a series of para - substituted benzalketones are analyzed in order to stablish the role of the electron-donor substkuent as well as the electronic properties of the molecular structure of the π-conduction channel.

Absorption bands assignment of the π-π^? electronic transitions in the near ultraviolet spectral region is carry out from an experimental and theoretical point of view. The photo-induced charge transfer spectral bands in these aromatic compounds follow the same spectral pattern than the para-substituted benzaldehydes and acetophenones and the electronic transition takes place in the π,π^?(¹L_a) excited state. However, our semiempirical M.O. calculations show that this charge transfer process involve the electron-acceptor carbonyl group and the olefinic bond bridge as a second electron-acceptor group.     

Theoretical study of molecular properties of low-lying electronic excited states of H2O and H2S

Geometries, excitation energies, dipole moments and dipole polarisability tensor components of the ground and four lowest excited states ³ B ₁, ¹ B ₁, ³ A ₂, ¹ A ₂ of the H₂O and H₂S molecules were calculated at the CASSCF, CASPT2, CCSD and CCSD(T) level of approximation. Vertical excitation and equilibrium transition energies of these states, having the Rydberg character, are reported too. Properties of both molecules in the ground and in low lying excited states are compared and discussed from the point of view of their molecular electronic structure. Upon excitation we observe dramatic changes of dipole moments and polarisabilities with respect to the ground state. We stress the change of the polarity of H₂O in all excited states accompanied by the enhancement of the dipole polarisability by an order of magnitude. Large, even if less pronounced, are changes of electric properties of H₂S in its excited states. Dipole moments and dipole polarisabilities of ³ B ₁, ¹ B ₁ states of H₂S and H₂O behave quite analogously in comparison to their respective ground state. The general pattern of properties for both molecules in their ³ A ₂ and ¹ A ₂ excited states is more different due to a pronounced participation of the sulphur d-orbitals in these states of the H₂S molecule.     

Theoretical exploration of ultrafast spectroscopy of small clusters

We present the ultrafast multistate nuclear dynamics involving adiabatic and nonadiabatic excited states of non-stoichiometric halide deficient clusters (Na_nF_n-1) characterized by strong ionic bonding and one-excess electron for which the “frozen ionic bonds” approximation has been justified allowing to consider the optical response of the single excess electron in the effective field of the other electrons. We combined the Wigner-Moyal representation of the vibronic density matrix with the ab initio multi state molecular dynamics in the ground and excited electronic states including the nonadiabatic couplings calculated “on the fly” at low computational demand. This method allows the simulation of femtosecond pump-probe and pump-dump signals based on an analytical formulation, which utilizes temperature dependent ground state initial conditions, an ensemble of trajectories carried out on the electronic excited state as well as on the ground state after the passage through the conical intersection in the case of nonadiabatic dynamics and for probing either in the cationic state or in the ground state. The choice of the systems we presented has been made in order to determine the timescales of the fast geometric relaxation leaving the bonding frame intact as during the dynamics in the first excited state of Na₄F₃, and of the bond breaking processes leading to conical intersection between the first excited state and the ground state as in Na₃F₂. The former is the smallest finite system prototype for an surface F-center of bulk color centers. The latter allows to study the photo isomerization in full complexity taking into account all degrees of freedom. In the case of Na₄F₃ after the fast geometric relaxation in the excited state leading to deformed cuboidal structure without breaking of bonds, different types of internal vibrational redistribution (IVR) processes have been identified in pump-dump signals by tuning the dump laser. In contrast, from the analysis of the pump-probe signals of Na₃F₂ cluster, the timescales for the metallic and the ionic bond breaking, as well as for the passage through conical intersection have been determined. Finally the conditions under which these processes can be experimentally observed have been identified. Received 22 December 2000     

Deep UV resonance Raman spectroscopic study of CnF2n+2 molecules: the excitation of C–C σ bond

The σ–σ* transition of C–C bond in C_nF_2n+2 molecules was studied by deep UV resonance Raman spectroscopy. With the C–C σ bond selectively excited by the deep UV laser at 177.3 nm, the resonance Raman spectra of C_nF_2n+2 molecules were obtained on our home‐assembled deep UV Raman spectrograph. The Raman bands at 1299, 1380 and 2586 cm⁻¹ due to the C–C skeletal stretching modes are evidently enhanced owing to the resonance Raman effect. Based on the resonance Raman spectra and theoretical calculation results, it is proposed that the electronic geometry of C_nF_2n+2 molecules at the σσ* excited state is displaced along the directions perpendicular and parallel to the C–C skeleton, and the excited C–C bond is not dissociative due to the delocalization of the excited electron in σ* orbital. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Hydrogen bonding and excited state properties of the photoexcited hydrogen‐bonded (E)‐S‐(2‐aminopropyl) 3‐(4‐hydroxyphenyl)prop‐2‐enethioate complexes

The time‐dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) method has been performed to investigate the excited state and hydrogen bonding dynamics of a series of photoinduced hydrogen‐bonded complexes formed by (E)‐S‐(2‐aminopropyl) 3‐(4‐hydroxyphenyl)prop‐2‐enethioate with water molecules in vacuum. The ground state geometric optimizations and electronic transition energies as well as corresponding oscillator strengths of the low‐lying electronic excited states of the (E)‐S‐(2‐aminopropyl) 3‐(4‐hydroxyphenyl)prop‐2‐enethioate monomer and its hydrogen‐bonded complexes O₁‐H₂O, O₂‐H₂O, and O₁O₂‐(H₂O)₂ were calculated by the density functional theory and TDDFT methods, respectively. It is found that in the excited states S₁ and S₂, the intermolecular hydrogen bond formed with carbonyl oxygen is strengthened and induces an excitation energy redshift, whereas the hydrogen bond formed with phenolate oxygen is weakened and results in an excitation energy blueshift. This can be confirmed based on the excited state geometric optimizations by the TDDFT method. Furthermore, the frontier molecular orbital analysis reveals that the states with the maximum oscillator strength are mainly contributed by the orbital transition from the highest occupied molecular orbital to the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital. These states are of locally excited character, and they correspond to single‐bond isomerization while the double bond remains unchanged in vacuum.     

Resonance CARS Study of Electronic Excited Molecules

Abstract

There has been much progress in the vibrational spectroscopic study of short-lived chemical species and electronic excited states in the last decade [1, 2]. Most of those studies employed Raman scattering method by recourse to the resonance enhancement associated with the transient electronic absorption. TR³ is now widely known aB standing for “Time-Resolved Resonance Raman” spectroscopy.     

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND PHOTOPHYSICS OF N-QUATERNARY DIARYLOXAZOLIUM SALTS

ABSTRACT

The concern of this work is to study molecular structure, electronic absorption and emission spectra of several N-quaternary salts of the well-known diaryloxazole scintillating compounds: 2,5-diphenyloxazole, para-, meta- and ortho- isomers of bis-2-(5-phenyl-oxazolyl)-benzene (POPOP). All of them were obtained from the initial aryloxazoles by their methylation with dimethylsulfate.

We found, that N-methylation manifests itself in arising of sterical hindrance in the molecules of diaryloxazolium salts, which results in distortion of their planarity. On the contrary to the ground state, the investigated molecules become more planar in their lowest singlet excited state. As a result of such an excited state flattening, fluorescence Stokes shifts values of the diaryloxazolium salts exceed 9000–10,000 cm^?1. The excited state flattening rate constants, estimated for the studied oxazolium compounds, are of the 10¹⁰ s^?1 range. No considerable increase of radiationless losses, induced by the excited state structural relaxation, was found. Owing to these facts, N-quaternary diaryloxazolium salts may be considered as effective abnormally high Stokes shift organic luminophores.     

A detailed DFT/TDDFT study on excited‐state intramolecular hydrogen bonding dynamics and proton‐transfer mechanism of 2‐phenanthro[9,10‐d]oxazol‐2‐yl‐phenol

In this present work, using density functional theory and time‐dependent density functional theory methods, we theoretically study the excited‐state hydrogen bonding dynamics and the excited state intramolecular proton transfer mechanism of a new 2‐phenanthro[9,10‐d]oxazol‐2‐yl‐phenol (2PYP) system. Via exploring the reduced density gradient versus sign(λ₂(r))ρ(r), we affirm that the intramolecular hydrogen bond O1‐H2?N3 is formed in the ground state. Based on photoexcitation, comparing bond lengths, bond angles, and infrared vibrational spectra involved in hydrogen bond, we confirm that the hydrogen bond O1‐H2?N3 of 2PYP should be strengthened in the S₁ state. Analyses about frontier molecular orbitals prove that charge redistribution of 2PYP facilitates excited state intramolecular proton transfer process. Via constructing potential energy curves and searching transition state structure, we clarify the excited state intramolecular proton transfer mechanism of 2PYP in detail, which may make contributions for the applications of such kinds of system in future.     

Electronic structure and hot carrier relaxation in ⟨001⟩ anatase TiO2 nanowire

We present an electronic structure and non-adiabatic excited state dynamics study of ?001? anatase TiO₂ nanowire (NW) by combining density matrix formalism and ab initio electronic structure calculations. Our results show that quantum confinement increases the energy gap as the dimension of TiO₂ is reduced from the bulk to a NW with a diameter of several nanometres and that the probability of electronic transitions induced by lattice vibrations for the NW follows band gap law. The electron non-radiative relaxation to the bottom of the conduction band is involving Ti 3d orbitals, while the hole non-radiative relaxation of holes to the top of the valence band occurs by subsequent occupation of O 2p orbitals.     

DFT/TDDFT Study on the Electronic Structure and Spectral Properties of Diphenyl Azafluoranthene Derivative

Paper reports the DFT/TDDFT study on the electronic structure and spectral properties of the five-membered annulated diphenyl azafluoranthene derivative 1,3-diphenyl-3H-indeno[1,2,3-de]pyrazolo[3,4-b]quinoline (DPIPQ) by means of polarizable continuum model (PCM) and Onsager reaction field approaches at the B3LYP/6-31+G(d,p) level of theory. The results of calculations are compared with the optical absorption and fluorescence spectra as well as with the cyclic voltammetry data. The DFT/TDDFT/PCM approaches exhibit rather good quantitative agreement regarding the spectral position of the first absorption band; the discrepancy between the experiment and theory is less than 0.06 eV (linear response approach) or 0.25 eV (state specific approach). As for the fluorescence emission the TDDFT/PCM calculations underestimate the transition energy on about of 0.7–0.8 eV. Such discrepancy should be attributed to insufficient quality of the TDDFT/PCM optimization in the excited state. Ignoring the geometrical relaxation in the excited state provides considerably better agreement between the experiment and theory; discrepancy is less than 0.1–0.22 eV depending on a solvent polarity. The dominant influence on the fluorescence emission results mainly from the solvent reorganization in the excited state whereas the solute relaxation is indeed weak and may be ignored.     

Theory of the resonance electronic Raman effect

The behaviour of electronic Raman scattering, excited under resonance conditions, is discussed in relation to molecular properties of the ground electronic state, the resonant excited state and the final electronic state. It is shown how the intensity distribution within vibronically structured electronic Raman bands depends on differences of molecular geometry and force field between these states.     

In‐situ Raman spectroscopy of current‐carrying graphene microbridge

In‐situ Raman spectroscopy was performed on chemical vapor deposited graphene microbridge (3 μm × 80 μm) under electrical current density up to 2.58 × 10⁸ A/cm² in ambient conditions. We found that both the G and the G′ peak of the Raman spectra do not restore back to the initial values at zero current, but to slightly higher values after switching off the current through the microbridge. The up‐shift of the G peak and the G′ peak, after switching off the electrical current, is believed to be due to p‐doping by oxygen adsorption, which is confirmed by scanning photoemission microscopy. Both C–O and C=O bond components in the C1s spectra from the microbridge were found to be significantly increased after high electrical current density was flown. The C=O bond is likely the main source of the p‐doping according to our density functional theory calculation of the electronic structure. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.