含有噻唑生色团的Y-型有机分子的二阶非线性光学性质

采用密度泛函理论(DFT)B3LYP/6-31G*方法优化了一系列含有噻唑生色团的Y-型有机杂环分子的几何构型, 在此基础上结合有限场(FF)方法和含时密度泛函理论(TD-DFT)对分子的非线性光学(NLO)活性和电子光谱进行计算分析. 结果表明, 这些分子具有A-π-D-π-A(A: 受体, D: 给体)结构, 分子基态偶极矩、极化率和二阶NLO系数(β)随支链共轭桥的增长及生色团共轭效应的增大而增大. 同时, 该系列有机杂环分子的二阶极化率总的有效值(βtot)与其前线分子轨道能级相关, 分子的前线分子轨道能级差越小, βtot值越大.     

含有咪唑生色团系列树型有机分子二阶非线性光学性质的密度泛函理论研究

应用密度泛函理论(DFT)B3LYP/6-31G*方法计算研究了系列树型含有咪唑生色团的有机分子的结构和非线性光学性质.计算结果表明:该系列分子具有A- -D- -A(A:受体,D:给体)结构,分子基态的偶极矩、极化率、二阶NLO系数( )随共轭链的增长及吸电子基的增强而增大;同时,前线轨道能级差值越小此类分子的二阶极化率总有效值( )越大.计算的吸收光谱显示此系列树型分子在低能区域247.79nm-419.87nm都有一个最强吸收,并且均是最高占据轨道与最低空轨道之间的跃迁.     

新型苯并噻二唑衍生物的非线性光学性质理论研究

以苯并噻二唑分子为母体,设计了5个系列的衍生物,采用AM1半经验量子化学方法,研究了共轭π桥的不同增长方式和不同推拉电子基团对分子的电子结构及非线性光学性质的影响.结果表明:共轭链较短时,分子的二阶极化率和三阶极化率与共轭链长的线性相关性较好;而当共轭链较长时,分子的二价极化率和三阶极化率随着共轭链的增长而呈起伏性变化;与三氰基呋喃相比,三硝基呋喃对非线性极化率的影响更大;部分目标分子的一阶极化率α与Δμ·ΔE-1、二阶极化率β与α·ΔE-1、三阶极化率γ与α·ΔE-2和β·ΔE-1都有较好的相关性.     

双咪唑苯和双三唑苯及其衍生物非线性光学性质的密度泛函研究

采用密度泛函理论(DFT)的UB3LYP(B3LYP)/6-31+G**方法对双咪唑苯和双三咪唑苯双自由基及其衍生物几何结构进行优化,并结合有限场(FF)方法计算这些体系的非线性光学(NLO)系数.结果表明,引入给、受体取代基都能使体系的极化率α和二阶超极化率γ增大.在双自由基体系中,引入给体NH2的α和γ值大于引入受体NO2的值,与闭壳层体系中结果相反.分析自由基成分和电荷对体系的二阶超极化率γ影响的结果表明,处于中间双自由基成分的分子比相似共轭性的闭壳层分子有更大的二阶超极化率γ;带电荷的双自由基体系引入给、受体之后,与中性自由基体系相比具有更大的二阶超极化率γ.     

噻唑类二阶非线性光学活性分子的合成与性能

合成了4个以噻唑环为母体、含有Schiff碱结构的新型二阶非线性光学(NLO)活性分子,用红外光谱、紫外光谱、核磁共振光谱和元素分析确定了分子结构,用溶致变色法确定了二阶极化率. 分子中噻唑五元杂环和Schiff碱结构提高了NLO分子的热稳定性和透明性,噻唑的共轭芳香杂环非中心对称结构连接多个供、吸电子基团,提高了分子的二阶非线性系数. 结果表明,这些NLO分子的紫外吸收波长在350～415 nm之间,裂解温度均在300 ℃左右,二阶非线性光学系数β值达到1×10 -30 esu数量级,初步实现了"二阶非线性-透明性-热稳定性"综合性能优化的目标.     

三聚咔唑为中心的准八极矩分子二阶NLO性质

采用密度泛函理论B3LYP/6-31G*方法,对一系列以三聚咔唑为中心核的准八极矩分子的几何结构进行优化,在所得优化结构的基础上,结合有限场方法(FF)和含时密度泛函理论(TD-DFT)探讨了体系的二阶非线性光学(NLO)性质和电子光谱。结果表明,研究分子的极化率(α)及二阶NLO系数(β)随着取代基吸电子能力的增强而增大。当研究分子以三氰基苯乙烯为受体,碳-碳双键为共轭桥时,显示了较大的二阶NLO系数和良好透光性的优化,说明准八极矩分子内多重电荷转移可以有效地解决"非线性-透光性"矛盾。该系列分子在非线性材料领域中有望成为具有良好应用价值的候选分子。     

系列金化合物[X-{Au(PMe_3)}_2]的结构、电子光谱和非线性光学性质

采用密度泛函理论(DFT)B3LYP和BhandHLYP方法,对6个不同金化合物[X-{Au(PMe3)}2]的几何结构、电子光谱以及极化率和三阶非线性光学(NLO)效应进行了计算分析.本文采用的计算方法和基组适合所研究的对象,并发现用PMe3代替PPh3对分子整体结构影响不大.另外,分子桥连部分的空间效应对极化率有明显影响,对三阶极化率影响却不大.关于6个分子的三阶NLO性质,由于X部分的电子性质及共轭程度不同,分子1a的三阶极化率γ值最小,分子2a的γ值最大.通过分析电子光谱和对应的分子轨道组成可知,Au在分子1a中做电子给体,而在分子2a～6a中做电子受体,表明Au在此类化合物中对NLO性质的贡献不同.     

AπDπA型咔唑衍生物三阶光学非线性的Z-扫描研究

合成了6个新型AπDπA型3,6-二取代咔唑多极生色分子, 用红外光谱、核磁共振等对其结构进行了表征. 用Z-扫描方法研究了这些分子的三阶非线性光学性质. 实验结果表明, 这些分子具有较大的三阶极化率, 延长共轭链长度, 增加电子受体强度, 引入芳香杂环, 都能增强分子内电荷转移, 这种效应增加了分子的跃迁矩, 使三阶极化率增大.     

含双呋喃共轭桥的有机非线性生色团的合成及性能

通过Wittig反应和Vilsmeier反应合成了一种以双呋喃为共轭桥, 2,2,3-三甲基-4-氰基-5-二氰基亚甲基-2,5-二氢呋喃(TCF)为受体, 并以二甲胺基为给体的有机非线性生色团分子MF₃C, 利用红外光谱、 ¹H NMR和元素分析对其结构进行了表征. 热重分析结果表明, 该分子的热分解温度达228℃; 利用溶致变色法对该生色团分子的二阶非线性品质参数μ_gβ进行了计算, 在1064 nm波长下MF₃C的μ_gβ值达到5.9×10^-44 esu. 可见, 该生色团兼具较好的热稳定性和较大的超极化率.     

氮杂联苯乙烯系列衍生物的二阶非线性光学性质的理论研究

新型高非线性光学活性生色团分子的设计与探索已成为近来工作的焦点 [1] .化学家们 [2～ 9]研究了大量具有π电子结构和有分子内电子转移的有机化合物如推拉苯乙烯、 Schiff碱、偶氮苯、取代吡啶、噻吩乙烯等体系的二阶非线性光学特性 ,发现这些推拉共轭体系的共轭链长增加均导致二阶非线性极化率 β增大 ,紫外光谱红移 ,透明性降低 .本文研究推拉氮杂苯乙烯及二苯乙烯系列衍生物的二阶非线性光学性质 .结果表明 ,对于苯乙烯和二苯乙烯衍生物 ,引入嘧啶环既提高了二阶非线性光学系数 ,又不影响材料的透明性 ,是很有前途的二阶非线性光学候…     

Active Layer Morphology Engineering of All-polymer Solar Cells by Systematically Tuning Molecular Weights of Polymer Donors/Acceptors

In all-polymer solar cells (APSCs),number-average molecular weights (Mns) of polymer donors and polymer acceptors play an important role in active layer morphology and photovoltaic performance.In this work,based on a series of APSCs with power conversion efficiency of approaching 10％,we study the effect of Mns of both polymer donor and polymer acceptor on active layer morphology and photovoltaic performance of APSCs.We select poly[4-(5-(4,8-bis(5-((2-butyloctyl)thio)thiophen-2-yl)-6-methylbenzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophen-2-yl)thiophen-2-yl)-5,6-difluoro-2-(2-hexyldecyl)-7-(5-methylthiophen-2-yl)-2H-benzo[d][1,2,3]triazole](CD1) as the polymer donor and poly[4-(5-(5,10-bis(2-dodecylhexadecyl)-4,4,g,9-tetrafluuoro-7-methyl-4,5,9,10-tetrahydro3a,5,8,10-tetraaza-4,g-diborapyren-2-yl)thiophen-2-yl)-7-(5-methylthiophen-2-yl)benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole](PBN-14) as the polymer acceptor.The Mns of polymer donor CD1 are 14.0,35.5 and 56.1 kg/mol,respectively,and the Mns of polymer acceptor PBN-14 are 32.7,72.4 and 103.4 kg/mol,respectively.To get the desired biscontinueous fibrous network morphololgy of the polymer donor/polymer acceptor blends,at least one polymer should have high or medium Mn.Moreover,when the Mn of polymer acceptor is high,the active layer morphology and APSC device performance are insensitive to the Mn of polymer donor.The optimal APSC device performance is obtained when the Mn of both the polymer donor and the polymer acceptor are medium.These results provide a comprehensive and deep understanding on the interplay and the effect of Mn of polymer donors and polymer acceptors in high-performance APSCs.     

Energy barriers of proton transfer reactions between amino acid side chain analogs and water from ab initio calculations

Proton transfer reactions were studied in all titratable pairs of amino acid side chains where, under physiologically reasonable conditions, one amino acid may function as a donor and the other one as an acceptor. Energy barriers for shifting the proton from donor to acceptor atom were calculated by electronic structure methods at the MP2/6-31++G(d,p) level, and the well-known double-well potentials were characterized. The energy difference between both minima can be expressed by a parabola using as argument the donor-acceptor distance R(DA). In this work, the fit parameters of the quadratic expression are determined for each donor-acceptor pair. Moreover, it was found previously that the energy barriers of the reactions can be expressed by an analytical expression depending on the distance between donor and acceptor and the energy difference between donor and acceptor bound states. The validity of this approach is supported by the extensive new data set. This new parameterization of proton transfer barriers between titratable amino acid side chains allows us to very efficiently estimate proton transfer probabilities in molecular modelling studies or during classical molecular dynamics simulation of biomolecular systems.     

Hydrogen splitting by pyramidalized 13–15 donor–acceptor cryptands: A computational study

A series of new donor–acceptor cryptands, where pyramidalized donor (azaadamantane) and acceptor (bora/ala/adamantane) molecules are spatially oriented toward each other and linked via aromatic spacer, are constructed and computationally studied at M06-2X and ωB97X-D levels of theory. Kinetic stability of the perfluorinated bora- and ala-adamantane with respect to F migration to group 13 element is demonstrated. The effectiveness of the constructed cryptands, featuring pyramidalized perfluorinated acceptor moieties, in the heterolytic splitting of molecular hydrogen is predicted. Hydrogen splitting is highly exothermic and exergonic and is accompanied by small activation barriers. The most promising candidates for the experimental studies are identified. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Intramolecular Förster energy transfer in a dendritic system at the single molecule level

The photophysics of a dendrimer containing four donor chromophores and one acceptor chromophore are studied at the single-molecule level. Upon excitation of the donors exclusive acceptor emission is observed due to efficient F?rster energy transfer. For 70% of the molecules donor emission is observed after bleaching of the acceptor, leading to a reduction of the F?rster energy transfer efficiency. Furthermore, we demonstrate that in this molecular system the donor chromophores do not bleach by a triplet-sensitized photooxidation.     

Interplay between barrier width and height in electron tunneling: photoinduced electron transfer in porphyrin-based donor-bridge-acceptor systems

The rate of electron tunneling in molecular donor-bridge-acceptor (D-B-A) systems is determined both by the tunneling barrier width and height, that is, both by the distance between the donor and acceptor as well as by the energy gap between the donor and bridge moieties. These factors are therefore important to control when designing functional electron transfer systems, such as constructs for photovoltaics, artificial photosynthesis, and molecular scale electronics. In this paper we have investigated a set of D-B-A systems in which the distance and the energy difference between the donor and bridge states (DeltaEDB) are systematically varied. Zinc(II) and gold(III) porphyrins were chosen as electron donor and acceptor because of their suitable driving force for photoinduced electron transfer (-0.9 eV in butyronitrile) and well-characterized photophysics. We have previously shown, in accordance with the superexchange mechanism for electron transfer, that the electron transfer rate is proportional to the inverse of DeltaEDB in a series of zinc/gold porphyrin D-B-A systems with bridges of constant edge to edge distance (19.6 A) and varying DeltaEDB (3900-17 600 cm(-1)). Here, we use the same donor and acceptor but the bridge is shortened or extended giving a set of oligo-p-phenyleneethynylene bridges (OPE) with four different edge to edge distances ranging from 12.7 to 33.4 A. These two sets of D-B-A systems-ZnP-RB-AuP+ and ZnP-nB-AuP+-have one bridge in common, and hence, for the first time both the distance and DeltaEDB dependence of electron transfer can be studied simultaneously in a systematic way.     

Are donor–acceptor self organised aromatic systems NLO (non-linear optical) active?

This contribution to the understanding of non-linear optical (NLO) properties of organic systems is concentrated on donor–acceptor aromatic systems such as [2]catenanes. We report accurate ab initio quantum chemical calculations of the first static hyperpolarizability (β) of donor–acceptor aromatic systems containing naphthalene and anthracene as electron donors and pyromellitimide and naphthadiimide as electron acceptors. We investigate the NLO effect when the donor acceptor units are not connected through a bridge. In this kind of system the electronic communication between donor and acceptor is solely due to through space charge transfer mechanism. Geometries of all molecular systems were optimised at the Hartree–Fock level with STO-3G minimal basis set and with the 3-21G split valence basis and finally with 6-31G basis set using GAUSSIAN 98W. The first static hyperpolarizabilities of these molecular systems were calculated using Hartree–Fock level using 6-31G basis set using GAUSSIAN 98W. To understand the possibility of developing these systems as NLO materials we have also calculated the linear and nonlinear optical properties of bridged donor–acceptor systems. The study suggested that these unconnected donor–acceptor systems equivalent to some [2]catenanes reported in literature in general have little influence on the first static hyperpolarizability, however, the linked macro cyclic systems may have potential applications in the development of non-linear optical materials.     

Rational Molecular Design Overcoming the Long Delayed Fluorescence Lifetime and Serious Efficiency Roll-Off in Blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Devices

Blue thermally activated delayed fluorescent (TADF) devices with short excited-state lifetime, high reverse intersystem crossing rate, and low-efficiency roll-off were developed by managing the molecular structure of donor–acceptor-type blue emitters. Three isomers of blue TADF emitters with a diphenyltriazine acceptor and three carbazole donors were synthesized. The position of the donor moieties in the phenyl linker connecting the donor and acceptor moieties was controlled to devise compounds with a short delayed fluorescence lifetime. A blue TADF emitter with three carbazole donors at 2-, 3-, and 4- positions of a phenyl linker shortened the excited state lifetime to 4.1 μs, showed a high external quantum efficiency of 20.4 %, and low efficiency roll-off of less than 10 % at 1000 cd m⁻². Therefore, a molecular design distorting the donors by aligning them in a consecutive way is useful to resolve the issues of long delayed fluorescence lifetime and efficiency roll-off of blue TADF devices.     

Improved Transistor Performance by Modulating Molecular Packing with Donor and Acceptor Moieties

The joint of the donor and acceptor moieties allows a facile and effective strategy to develop novel organic conjugated materials. However, few pieces of work report the understanding of the donor–acceptor interactions at the molecular level. Herein, we developed three small molecules containing one acceptor motif with different amounts of the donor unit. By combining theoretical calculations and energy level characterization, the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) levels of the three molecules were proven to be almost identical. The molecular packing modes were evaluated from crystal structure prediction. Owing to the donor–acceptor interactions, the packing mode can be tuned from a 1D slipped stacking to a 2D brick layer. The 2D molecular packing and charge transport channel endowed the materials a higher electron mobility of 3.29 cm² V^?1 s^?1 in the single‐crystal field‐effect transistors after such modulation.     

Impact of bridging units on the dynamics of photoinduced charge generation and charge recombination in donor-acceptor dyads.

We estimate, at a full quantum-chemical level, the various molecular parameters governing the rate of photoinduced charge generation and charge recombination in model organic structures containing a donor and an acceptor unit in view of the possible use of such systems in organic solar cells. The rate of through-space excitation dissociation, as predicted in the framework of the Marcus-Levich-Jortner theory, is found to be low in comparison to intramolecular decay processes when the donor and acceptor molecules are lying in a head-to-tail arrangement and high when the donor and acceptor molecules are superimposed in a cofacial arrangement. The charge separation rates for side-by-side donor-acceptor dyads are significantly increased by promoting through-bond interactions in covalently linked donor and acceptor units. This has motivated a detailed quantitative analysis of the influence of the nature, size, and conformation of the bridging moiety on the calculated transfer rates.