Triplet state of rhodamine dyes and its role in production of intermediates

The triplet states of rhodamine 6G, N,N′-diethylrhodamine and rhodamine B were studied in aqueous and alcohol solutions by means of flash-photolysis. The triplet state was shown to be involved in electron transfer reactions. Spectra of T—T absorption and ion-radicals of rhodamine dyes were measured.     

Orbital Effect‐Induced Anomalous Anion–π Interactions between Electron‐Rich Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Fluoride

Anion–π interactions generally exist between an anion and an electron‐deficient π‐ring because of the electron‐accepting character of the ring. In this paper, we report orbital effect‐induced anomalous binding between electron‐rich π systems and F^? through anion–π interactions calculated at the MP2/6‐31+G(d,p) and ωB97X‐D/6‐31+G(d,p) levels of theory. We find that anion–π interactions between F^? and electron‐rich π rings increase markedly with increasing number of π electrons and size of the π rings. This is contrary to intuition because anion–π interactions would be expected to gradually decrease because of gradually increasing Coulombic repulsion between the negative charge of the anions and gradually increasing number of π electrons of the aromatic surfaces. Energy decomposition analysis showed that the key to this anomalous effect is the more effective delocalization of negative charge to the unoccupied π* orbitals of larger π rings, which is termed an “orbital effect”.     

A quest for triplet silylenes XHSi3 at ab initio and DFT levels (X = H, F, Cl and Br)

Four ground state triplet silylenes are found among 30 possible silylenic XHSi₃ structures (X = H, F, Cl and Br), at seven ab initio and DFT levels including: B3LYP/6-311++G^∗∗, HF/6-311++G^∗∗, MP3/6-311G^∗, MP2/6-311+G^∗∗, MP4(SDTQ)/6-311++G^∗∗, QCISD(T)/6-311++G^∗∗ and CCSD(T)/6-311++G^∗∗. The latter six methods indicate that the triplet states of 3-flouro-1,2,3-trisilapropadienylidene, 1-chloro-1,2,3-trisilapropargylene and 3-chloro-1,2,3-trisilapropargylene are energy minima. These triplets appear more stable than their corresponding singlet states which cannot even exist for showing negative force constants. Also, triplet state of 1-flouro-1,2,3-trisilapropargylene is possibly accessible for being an energy minimum, since its corresponding singlet state is not a real isomer. Some discrepancies are observed between energetic and/or structural results of DFT vs. ab initio data.     

Photoinduced energy and electron-transfer processes in porphyrin-perylene bisimide symmetric triads

The photophysics of two symmetric triads, (ZnP)2PBI and (H2P)2PBI, made of two zinc or free-base porphyrins covalently attached to a central perylene bisimide unit has been investigated in dichloromethane and in toluene. The solvent has been shown to affect not only quantitatively but also qualitatively the photophysical behavior. A variety of intercomponent processes (singlet energy transfer, triplet energy transfer, photoinduced charge separation, and recombination) have been time-resolved using a combination of emission spectroscopy and femtosecond and nanosecond time-resolved absorption techniques yielding a very detailed picture of the photophysics of these systems. The singlet excited state of the lowest energy chromophore (perylene bisimide in the case of (ZnP)2PBI, porphyrin in the case of (H2P)2PBI) is always quantitatively populated, besides by direct light absorption, by ultrafast singlet energy transfer (few picosecond time constant) from the higher energy chromophore. In dichloromethane, the lowest excited singlet state is efficiently quenched by electron transfer leading to a charge-separated state where the porphyrin is oxidized and the perylene bisimide is reduced. The systems then go back to the ground state by charge recombination. The four charge separation and recombination processes observed for (ZnP)2PBI and (H2P)2PBI in dichloromethane take place in the sub-nanosecond time scale. They obey standard free-energy correlations with charge separation lying in the normal regime and charge recombination in the Marcus inverted region. In less polar solvents, such as toluene, the energy of the charge-separated states is substantially lifted leading to sharp changes in photophysical mechanism. With (ZnP)2PBI, the electron-transfer quenching is still fast, but charge recombination takes place now in the nanosecond time scale and to triplet state products rather than to the ground state. Triplet-triplet energy transfer from the porphyrin to the perylene bisimide is also involved in the subsequent deactivation of the triplet manifold to the ground state. With (H2P)2PBI, on the other hand, the driving force for charge separation is too small for electron-transfer quenching, and the deactivation of the porphyrin excited singlet takes place via intersystem crossing to the triplet followed by triplet energy transfer to the perylene bisimide and final decay to the ground state.     

天线若丹明染料分子内能量与电荷传递的研究

染料三重态在染料激光的应用中起着重要作用，尤其是三重态一Z重态（T－T）吸收常常会造成谐振腔损耗＊．为了减少由基态吸收而造成的话振腔损耗，带有紫外吸收天线分子的三发色团染料已在研究问，2，5·二苯基螨喳（PP0）在紫外区（如308删）有很强的吸收，PPO－rhod．系列染料（见图1）在紫外区的吸收就很强，由PPO到若丹明母体的单线态一单线态（S功能量传递使这类三发色团染料具有较大的荧光量子效率，较小的基态重复吸收耗能卜，司．然而，在610N640nm区域中这些天线若丹明染料的激光输出效率远远小于若丹明Rh630＊，其原因正是…     

Structure and properties of the low-lying electronic states of CeC(2) and CeC(2)(+)

Theoretical studies on the electronic and thermodynamic properties of several electronic states of CeC(2) and CeC(2)(+) have been carried out employing state-of-the-art single- and multireference techniques. The ground and the low-lying electronic states of these two species have been found to possess C(2v) triangular structures. A (3)B(2) state has been found to be the ground state of CeC(2) while for CeC(2)(+) (2)A(2) is the ground state. The computed electron ionization energy is in excellent agreement with experiment. The experimentally observed thermodynamic properties (dissociation and atomization energies) of reactions involving CeC(2) dissociation are corrected using the computed gas-phase properties of the molecule and the partition functions. The bent triplet and singlet state of CeC(2) exhibit large dipole moments (7.0-10.5 D) and it is consistent with the ionic character (through dative charge transfer) of the cluster in ground and excited states.     

The Calculated Ionization Potential and Electron Affinity of Cationic Cyanine Dyes

The ionization potential (IP) and electron affinity (EA) of the isolated single dye molecule and a hypothetical isolated J-aggregated dimer are calculated as an energy difference between separately minimized ground and ionized states. Three quantum methods are employed: density functional theory (DFT) Gaussian03 B3LYP/6-311G** (++G**); DFT using Dmol³; and a modification of CNDO/S, called CNDO/S-Δζ, which is developed for rapid calculation of the IP and EA. Results indicate that for the monomer, 1,1'-dimethyl-2,2'carbocyanine chloride, the vertical IP and EA are 6.2 ± 0.1 and 1.90 ± 0.05 eV, respectively. This is consistent with the threshold IP and EA predicted by the Yianoulis and Nelson "Statistical Model" of spectral sensitization. For the isolated J-aggregated dimer, whose configuration is consistent with being adsorbed on a dielectric substrate, the calculations predict a value of 5.2 ± 0.2 and 2.35 ± 0.05 eV for the IP and EA, respectively. Significant charge density is removed from the halide anion in the ionization process. The HOMO of the dye molecule is an MO associated with the halide anion. Calculation of the isolated entities is a necessary preliminary step in the study of the IP and EA of the adsorbed dye monomer and aggregate.     

Electronic Interactions of Michler's Ketone with DNA Bases in Synthetic Hairpins

The mechanism and dynamics of photoinduced electron transfer in two families of DNA hairpins possessing Michler's ketone linkers have been investigated by means of steady state and time‐resolved transient absorption and emission spectroscopies. The excited state behavior of the diol linker employed in hairpin synthesis is similar to that of Michler's ketone in methanol solution. Hairpins possessing only a Michler's ketone linker undergo fast singlet state charge separation and charge recombination with an adjacent purine base, attributed to well‐stacked ground state conformations, and intersystem crossing to the triplet state, attributed to poorly stacked ground state conformations. The failure of the triplet to undergo electron transfer reactions on the 7 ns time scale of our measurements is attributed to the low triplet energy and reduction potential of the twisted triplet state. Hairpins possessing both a Michler's ketone linker and a perylenediimide base surrogate separated by four base pairs undergo photoinduced hole transport from the diimide to Michler's ketone upon excitation of the diimide. The efficiency of hole transport is dependent upon the sequence of the intervening purine bases.     

The triplet state of cytosine and its derivatives: electron impact and quantum chemical study

The excitation of the lowest electronic states and vibrational excitation of cytosine (C) have been studied using electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS, 0-100 eV) with angular analysis. The singlet states have been found to be in good agreement with UV-VIS absorption results on sublimed films, slightly blueshifted by about 0.1 eV. The EEL spectra recorded at residual energy below 2 eV show clear shoulders at energy losses of 3.50 and 4.25 eV (+/-0.1 eV). They are assigned to the lowest triplet electronic states of cytosine. Energies and molecular structures of the lowest-lying triplet state of C and its methylated and halogenated 5-X-C, 6-X-C, and 5-X, 6-X-C substituted derivatives (X=CH3, F, Cl, and Br) have been studied using quantum chemical calculations with both molecular orbital and density functional methods, in conjunction with the 6-311++G(d,p), 6-311++G(3df,2p), and aug-cc-pVTZ basis sets. The triplet-singlet energy gap obtained using coupled-cluster theory [CCSD(T)] and density functional theory (DFT) methods agrees well with those derived from EELS study. The first C's vertical triplet state is located at 3.6 eV, in good agreement with experiment. The weak band observed at 4.25 eV is tentatively assigned to the second C's vertical triplet excitation. For the substituted cytosines considered, the vertical triplet state is consistently centered at 3.0-3.2 eV above the corresponding singlet ground state but about 1.0 eV below the first excited singlet state. Geometrical relaxation involving out-of-plane distortions of hydrogen atoms leads to a stabilization of 0.6-1.0 eV in favor of the equilibrium triplet. The lowest-lying adiabatic triplet states are located at 2.3-3.0 eV. Halogen substitution at both C(5) and C(6) positions tends to reduce the triplet-singlet separations whereas methylation tends to enlarge it. The vibrational modes of triplet cytosine and the ionization energies of substituted derivatives were also evaluated.     

Rational design and synthesis of a novel class of highly fluorescent rhodamine dyes that have strong absorption at long wavelengths

A novel class of strongly fluorescent rhodamine dyes were designed and synthesized by extending the π conjugation of chromophore with limited flexibility. These dyes were shown to have longer absorption in the range of 581 to 631 nm with quantum yields between 0.64 and 0.89.     

Jahn-Teller distortion geometries and electronic structures of Ga3Ge, GaGe3, and their ions

Computational studies on the geometric, electronic, and spectroscopic properties of electronic states are presented for GaGe3, Ga3Ge, and their ions using the CASSCF and DFT(B3LYP)/CCSD(T)/QCISD(T) techniques. The optimized geometries of electronic states, vibrational frequencies, energy separations, Mulliken populations, ionization energies, electron affinities, binding energies are obtained. The anion photoelectron spectra of GaGe3- and Ga3Ge- are predicted. In addition, the results from the low-lying states of GaGe3 and Ga3Ge are compared with those of GaSi3 and Ga3Si. Results demonstrate that the equilibrium geometries of most electronic states of GaGe3, Ga3Ge, and their ions exhibit Jahn-Teller distortion. It is interesting to find that there is not charge transfer between Ga and Ge atoms upon an electron attachment to the ground states of GaGe3 and Ga3Ge, while the amount of charge transfer between Ga and Ge atoms significantly increases upon an electron ionization from the ground state of Ga3Ge.     

Ab initio calculation of the lowest singlet and triplet states in CH2, CHF,CF2, and CHCH3

The lowest singlet and triplet states of the radicals CH₂, CHF, CF₂, and CHCH₃ have been investigated both in SCF and IEPA approximation (“independent electron pair approach” to account for electron correlation). The SCF calculations yield triplet ground states for CH₂, CHF, and CHCH₃, and a singlet ground state for CF₂. Electron correlation stabilizes the singlet state by about 14 kcal/mole with respect to the triplet for all four radicals leading to a singlet ground state also for CHF. The final triplet-singlet energy separations are 10, 6, ?11, ?47 kcal/mole for CH₂, CHCH₃, CHF, CF₂, respectively. Values for equilibrium bond angles, ionization potentials and bond energies are also given.     

Density functional study of AuXq (X = O, S, Se, Te, q = +1, 0, -1) molecules

Bond distances, vibrational frequencies, electron affinity, ionization potential, and dissociation energies of the title molecules were studied by use of density functional methods B3LYP, B3P86, B3PW91, BHLYP, BLYP, BP86, mPW1PW91, and PBE1PBE. It was found that the ground electronic state is doublet for neutral species, singlet for the anion, and triplet for the cation, in agreement with experiments and previous theoretical studies. The calculated properties are highly dependent on the functionals employed, in particular for the dissociation energy. The predicted bond distances and vibrational frequencies are in agreement with experiments and previous theoretical results. BP86 and BLYP have relatively good performance in reproducing the experimental results, while BHLYP is the worst functional method compared with the other density functional methods used for the title molecules.     

Structural,optical, and charge transport properties of cyclopentadithiophene derivatives: a theoretical study

Density functional theory calculations were carried out to investigate the structural and opto-electronic properties of cyclopenta[2,1-b:3,4-b′]dithiophene (CPDT) derivatives. The ground state, cationic and anionic geometries of cyclopentadithiophene derivatives were optimized at B3LYP/6-311G(d,p) level of theory. Based on these geometries, ionic state properties such as ionization potentials, electron affinities, hole extraction potential, and electron extraction potential of cyclopentadithiophene derivatives have been calculated. The charge transfer integral, spatial overlap integral, and site energy were calculated from the matrix elements of Kohn–Sham Hamiltonian. Computed results show that the mobility of charge carriers in CPDT derivatives is strongly affected by the substitution of electron withdrawing group at bridge-head and α-positions. The excited state geometry of CPDT derivatives were optimized using configuration interaction singles method. On the basis of ground and excited states geometry, absorption and emission spectra of cyclopentadithiophene derivatives were calculated using the time-dependent density functional theory method. It has been observed that the substitution of EWG in cyclopentadithiophene core alters the absorption and emission spectra. The nonlinear optical property of CPDT derivatives have been studied through computed static polarizability and first hyperpolarizability.     

Observation of a Thermally Accessible Triplet State Resulting from Rotation around a Main‐Group π Bond

We report the first direct spectroscopic observation by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy of a triplet diradical that is formed in a thermally induced rotation around a main‐group π bond, that is, the Si?Si double bond of tetrakis(di‐tert‐butylmethylsilyl)disilene ( 1 ). The highly twisted ground‐state geometry of singlet 1 allows access to the perpendicular triplet diradical 2 at moderate temperatures of 350–410 K. DFT‐calculated zero‐field splitting (ZFS) parameters of 2 accurately reproduce the experimentally observed half‐field transition. Experiment and theory suggest a thermal equilibrium between 1 and 2 with a very low singlet–triplet energy gap of only 7.3 kcal mol^?1.     

Aufbau principle and singlet-triplet gap in spherical Hooke atoms

Singlet and triplet spin state energies for three-dimensional Hooke atoms, that is, electrons in a quadratic confinement, with even number of electrons (2, 4, 6, 8, 10) is discussed using Full-CI and CASSCF type wavefunctions with a variety of basis sets and considering perturbative corrections up to second order. The effect of the screening of the electron–electron interaction is also discussed by using a Yukawa-type potential with different values of the Yukawa screening parameter (λ_ee = 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0). Our results show that the singlet state is the ground state for two and eight electron Hooke atoms, whereas the triplet is the ground spin state for 4-, 6-, and 10-electron systems. This suggests the following Aufbau structure 1s < 1p < 1d with singlet ground spin states for systems in which the generation of the triplet implies an inter-shell one-electron promotion, and triplet ground states in cases when there is a partial filling of electrons of a given shell. It is also observed that the screening of electron–electron interactions has a sizable quantitative effect on the relative energies of both spin states, specially in the case of two- and eight-electron systems, favoring the singlet state over the triplet. However, the screening of the electron–electron interaction does not provoke a change in the nature of the ground spin state of these systems. By analyzing the different components of the energy, we have gained a deeper understanding of the effects of the kinetic, confinement and electron–electron interaction components of the energy.     

新型双发色团染料荧光光谱及其寿命的研究

有效的染料激光操作需要较高的荧光量子效率,若丹明是在500~700 nm光谱区中一类最重要的激光染料.然而,染料的基态分子和三线态对辐射能量的吸收将会大大降低激光输出效率,再者,由于若丹明类染料在紫外区的吸收系数较小,为了有效吸收泵浦能量(如用XeCI准分子激光,308 nm),就必须使用高浓度染料溶液,在这种情况下,若丹明类染料较小的Stokes位移就势必造成基态分子更大的重复吸收,即造成更大的谐振腔损耗^[1].     

Influence of the nature of the absorption band on the potential performance of high molar extinction coefficient ruthenium(II) polypyridinic complexes as dyes for sensitized solar cells

When tested in solar cells, ruthenium polypyridinic dyes with extended π systems show an enhanced light-harvesting capacity that is not necessarily reflected by a high (collected electrons)/(absorbed photons) ratio. Provided that metal-to-ligand charge transfer bands, MLCT, are more effective, due to their directionality, than intraligand (IL) π-π* bands for the electron injection process in the solar cell, it seems important to explore and clarify the nature of the absorption bands present in these types of dyes. This article aims to elucidate if all the absorbed photons of these dyes are potentially useful in the generation of electric current. In other words, their potentiality as dyes must also be analyzed from the point of view of their contribution to the generation of excited states potentially useful for direct injection. Focusing on the assignment of the absorption bands and the nature of the emitting state, a systematic study for a series of ruthenium complexes with 4,4'-distyryl-2,2'-dipyridine (LH) and 4,4'-bis[p-(dimethylamino)-α-styryl]-2,2'-bipyridine (LNMe(2)) "chromophoric" ligands was undertaken. The observed experimental results were complemented with TDDFT calculations to elucidate the nature of the absorption bands, and a theoretical model was proposed to predict the available energy that could be injected from a singlet or a triplet excited state. For the series studied, the results indicate that the percentage of MLCT character to the anchored ligand for the lower energy absorption band follows the order [Ru(deebpy)(2)(LNMe(2))](PF(6))(2) > [Ru(deebpy)(2)(LH)](PF(6))(2) > [Ru(deebpy)(LH)(2)](PF(6))(2), where deebpy is 4,4'-bis(ethoxycarbonyl)-2,2'-bipyridine, predicting that, at least from this point of view, their efficiency as dyes should follow the same trend.     

Resolving electron injection from singlet fission-borne triplets into mesoporous transparent conducting oxides

Photoinduced electron transfer into mesoporous oxide substrates is well-known to occur efficiently for both singlet and triplet excited states in conventional metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) dyes. However, in all-organic dyes that have the potential for producing two triplet states from one absorbed photon, called singlet fission dyes, the dynamics of electron injection from singlet vs. triplet excited states has not been elucidated. Using applied bias transient absorption spectroscopy with an anthradithiophene-based chromophore (ADT-COOH) adsorbed to mesoporous indium tin oxide (nanoITO), we modulate the driving force and observe changes in electron injection dynamics. ADT-COOH is known to undergo fast triplet pair formation in solid-state films. We find that the electronic coupling at the interface is roughly one order of magnitude weaker for triplet vs. singlet electron injection, which is potentially related to the highly localized nature of triplets without significant charge-transfer character. Through the use of applied bias on nanoITO:ADT-COOH films, we map the electron injection rate constant dependence on driving force, finding negligible injection from triplets at zero bias due to competing recombination channels. However, at driving forces greater than −0.6 eV, electron injection from the triplet accelerates and clearly produces a trend with increased applied bias that matches predictions from Marcus theory with a metallic acceptor.

The rate of photoinduced electron transfer from triplet excited states after singlet fission in molecules adsorbed to mesoporous oxide substrates is shown through transient absorption studies to depend systematically on applied bias.     

Long-Lived Triplet Excited State Accessed with Spin–Orbit Charge Transfer Intersystem Crossing in Red Light-Absorbing Phenoxazine-Styryl BODIPY Electron Donor/Acceptor Dyads

Orthogonal phenoxazine-styryl BODIPY compact electron donor/acceptor dyads were prepared as heavy atom-free triplet photosensitizers (PSs) with strong red light absorption (ϵ=1.33×10⁵ M⁻¹ cm⁻¹ at 630 nm), whereas the previously reported triplet photosensitizers based on the spin-orbit charge transfer intersystem crossing (SOCT-ISC) mechanism show absorption in a shorter wavelength range (<500 nm). More importantly, a long-lived triplet state (τ_T=333 μs) was observed for the new dyads. In comparison, the triplet state lifetime of the same chromophore accessed with the conventional heavy atom effect (HAE) is much shorter (τ_T=1.8 μs). Long triplet state lifetime is beneficial to enhance electron or energy transfer, the primary photophysical processes in the application of triplet PSs. Our approach is based on SOCT-ISC, without invoking of the HAE, which may shorten the triplet state lifetime. We used bisstyrylBodipy both as the electron acceptor and the visible light-harvesting chromophore, which shows red-light absorption. Femtosecond transient absorption spectra indicated the charge separation (109 ps) and SOCT-ISC (charge recombination, CR; 2.3 ns) for BDP-1 . ISC efficiency of BDP-1 was determined as Φ_T=25 % (in toluene). The dyad BDP-3 was used as triplet PS for triplet-triplet annihilation upconversion (upconversion quantum yield Φ_UC=1.5 %; anti-Stokes shift is 5900 cm⁻¹).