Excited state hydrogen transfer dynamics in substituted phenols and their complexes with ammonia: pi pi*-pi sigma* energy gap propensity and ortho-substitution effect

Autor: Pino, G. A., Oldani, A. N., Marceca, E., Fujii, M., Ishiuchi, Shun-ichi, Miyazaki, M., Broquier, M., Dedonder, C., Jouvet, C.
Přispěvatelé: Instituto de Investigaciones en Físico Química [Córdoba] (INFIQC), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET)-Facultad de Ciencias Químicas [Córdoba], Universidad Nacional de Córdoba [Argentina]-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba [Argentina], Instituto de Química Física de los Materiales, Medio Ambiente y Energía [Buenos Aires] (INQUIMAE), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET)-Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales [Buenos Aires] (FCEyN), Universidad de Buenos Aires [Buenos Aires] (UBA)-Universidad de Buenos Aires [Buenos Aires] (UBA), Chemical Resources Laboratory and Integrated Research Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology [Tokyo] (TITECH), Institut des Sciences Moléculaires d'Orsay (ISMO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), Centre Laser de l'Université Paris Sud (CLUPS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Journal of Chemical Physics
Journal of Chemical Physics, American Institute of Physics, 2010, 133 (12), pp.124313. ⟨10.1063/1.3480396⟩
ISSN: 0021-9606
1089-7690
DOI: 10.1063/1.3480396⟩
Popis: International audience; Lifetimes of the first electronic excited state (S(1)) of fluorine and methyl (o-, m-, and p-) substituted phenols and their complexes with one ammonia molecule have been measured for the 0(0) transition and for the intermolecular stretching σ(1) levels in complexes using picosecond pump-probe spectroscopy. Excitation energies to the S(1) (ππ*) and S(2) (πσ*) states are obtained by quantum chemical calculations at the MP2 and CC2 level using the aug-cc-pVDZ basis set for the ground-state and the S(1) optimized geometries. The observed lifetimes and the energy gaps between the ππ* and πσ* states show a good correlation, the lifetime being shorter for a smaller energy gap. This propensity suggests that the major dynamics in the excited state concerns an excited state hydrogen detachment or transfer (ESHD/T) promoted directly by a S(1)/S(2) conical intersection, rather than via internal conversion to the ground-state. A specific shortening of lifetime is found in the o-fluorophenol-ammonia complex and explained in terms of the vibronic coupling between the ππ* and πσ* states occurring through the out-of-plane distortion of the C-F bond.
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