Exploring the Metric of Excited State Proton Transfer Reactions
| Autor: | Ilaria Ciofini, Marika Savarese, Carlo Adamo, Nadia Rega, Paolo A. Netti |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Marika, Savarese, Netti, PAOLO ANTONIO, Carlo, Adamo, Rega, Nadia, Ilaria, Ciofini |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Proton
Chemistry Imidazoles Surfaces Coatings and Films Characterization (materials science) Density based Coumarins Chemical physics Excited state Metric (mathematics) Materials Chemistry Density functional theory Protons Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Atomic physics Solvent effects Absorption (electromagnetic radiation) |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 117:16165-16173 |
| ISSN: | 1520-5207 1520-6106 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/jp406301p |
| Popis: | The excited state proton transfer (ESPT) reaction taking place between 7-hydroxy-4-(trifluorometyl)coumarin and 1-methylimidazole, recently experimentally characterized, has been here considered as a case study to illustrate the possibility of using theoretical approaches rooted in density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) for the description of complex reactions occurring at the excited state. In particular, beside identifying all stable species occurring at the ground and excited state during the ESPT reaction, a quantitative characterization of their photophysical properties, such as absorption and emission, is obtained by properly including solvent effects. More interestingly, a computational protocol enabling one to locate possible reaction pathways for the ESPT is here proposed. This protocol is based on the use of density based indices purposely developed to characterize the properties of vertical and relaxed excited states which allow one to discriminate the most favorable reaction paths on potential energy surfaces that are in the case of ESPT intrinsically very flat and difficult to characterize based on sole energy criteria, thus opening a new scenario for the description of photoinduced proton transfer reactions. |
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