In search of excited-state proton transfer in the lumichrome dimer in the solid state: theoretical and experimental approach |
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Authors: | Sikorska Ewa Khmelinskii Igor Kubicki Maciej Prukała Wiesław Hoffmann Marcin Machado Isabel F Ferreira Luis F V Karolczak Jerzy Worrall David R Krawczyk Alina Insińska-Rak Małgorzata Sikorski Marek |
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Affiliation: | Faculty of Commodity Science, Poznań University of Economics, al. Niepodleglo?ci 10, 60-967 Poznań, Poland. |
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Abstract: | Quantum chemical density functional theory (DFT) calculations and spectral data were employed to investigate the possibility of the excited-state double proton transfer (ESDPT) in lumichrome crystals. The calculations in a lumichrome dimer predict a transfer of a proton in the first excited state, leading to a cation-anion pair. The presently reported X-ray structure of 1,3-dimethyllumichrome and its complex solid-state luminescence indicate that also in this molecule intermolecular hydrogen bonds might be involved in the photophysics. The long-wavelength emission in lumichrome crystals peaked at 530 nm is attributed to excited-state proton transfer, whereas a wider emission band in methylated lumichrome derivatives peaked at 560 nm is attributed to ions formed upon photoexcitation of the crystals. |
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