GW/BSE级别下的非绝热动力学模拟揭示桥连化学键对调控酞菁锌-富勒烯给体-受体复合物激发态弛豫过程的重要作用

本文采用基于多体格林函数方法和Bethe-Salpeter方程(GW/BSE)的电子结构计算方法和非绝热动力学模拟研究了两种不同桥连化学键构型(5-6构型和6-6构型)的酞菁锌-富勒烯(ZnPc-C₆₀)给受体复合物的激发态性质及其弛豫过程. 对于6-6构型,ZnPc-C₆₀的最低激发态S₁态为光谱明态,即ZnPc的局域激发(LE)态,因此,6-6构型的ZnPc-C₆₀在光激发之后几乎不会发生电荷分离过程. 相比之下,5-6构型的ZnPc-C₆₀的S₁态是C₆₀的LE态,为光谱暗态,而作为光谱明态的ZnPc的LE态的能量更高. 而且,在ZnPc和C₆₀的LE态之间还存在若干电荷转移(CT)态. 因此,电荷转移会在从高能的ZnPc的LE态到低能的C₆₀的LE态的弛豫过程中发生. GW/BSE级别的非绝热动力学模拟结果进一步验证了电子结构计算的结论,并给出了相关过程的时间尺度：从ZnPc到C₆₀的超快激发态能量转移过程在前200 fs完成;随后发生的是由C₆₀到ZnPc的超快空穴转移过程. 本工作表明不同的桥连化学键模式(即5-6和6-6构型)可用于调节ZnPc-C₆₀给体-受体复合物的激发态性质及其光电性质. 与此同时,本工作证明了GW/BSE级别的非绝热动力学方法是探索非周期性给体-受体复合物、有机金属配合物、量子点、纳米团簇等复杂体系的光诱导动力学的可靠工具.     

噁唑体系激发态质子转移和失活的理论研究

利用高精度的CASSCF和MS-CASPT2电子结构计算方法系统地研究了2-(2'-羟基苯基)-4-甲基噁唑的光物理和光化学机理. 在CASSCF级别,首先优化得到势能面极小结构和圆锥交叉结构,及激发态质子转移、异构化、和失活的极小能量路径. 然后用MS-CASPT2方法对所有得到的结构和能量路径进行单点能量校正,我们发现在含有OH…N氢键的构象异构体中,激发态质子转移基本上是一个无垒的过程;在含OH…O 氢键的构象异构体中,激发态质子转移被抑制了. 此外,找到两个能量较低的酮式S₁/S₀圆锥交叉结构,使得激发态质子转移生成的S₁酮式结构可以很快失活到达基态. 但是,醇式S₁/S₀圆锥交叉结构能量较高,抑制了S₁醇式结构的激发态失活.     

邻羟基绿色荧光蛋白发色团光物理机理的理论研究

Herein we have employed the MS-CASPT2//CASSCF method to study the S₁ excited-state intramolecular proton transfers (ESIPTs) of recently synthesized ortho-hydroxyl GFP core chromophores, i.e. OHIM, CHBDI, and MHBID, and their excited-state relaxation pathways. We have found that in OHIM and CHBDI, the ESIPT process is associated with small barriers of 3.4 and 4.2 kcal/mol; while, in MHBDI, it becomes essentially barrierless. Moreover, we have found two main S₁ excited-state radiationless channels. In the first one, the enol S₁ species decays to the S₀ state via the enol S₁/S₀ conical intersection after overcoming considerable barriers of 7.0 and 7.7 kcal/mol in OHIM and CHBDI (however, in MHBDI, it is nearly barrierless). In the second one, the keto S₁ species is first generated through the ESIPT event; then, it is de-excited into the S₀ state in the vicinity of the keto S₁/S₀ conical intersection. These energetically allowed excited-state decay channels rationalize experimentally observed ultralow fluorescence quantum yields. The insights gained from the present work may help to guide the design of new ortho-hydroxyl GFP core chromophores with improved fluorescence emission and brightness.