Aromaticity and photophysics of tetrasila- and tetragerma-annelated tetrathienylenes as new representatives of the hetero[8]circulene family
| Autor: | Victor N. Cherepanov, Nataliya N. Karaush-Karmazin, Rashid R. Valiev, Gleb V. Baryshnikov, Valentina A. Minaeva, B. F. Minaev, Hans Ågren |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Department |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Materials science
Absorption spectroscopy 116 Chemical sciences Circulene BASIS-SET General Physics and Astronomy гетеро[8]циркулены 02 engineering and technology Electronic structure Ring (chemistry) 114 Physical sciences 01 natural sciences DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY chemistry.chemical_compound RAMAN FRANCK-CONDON DESIGN SULFLOWER 0103 physical sciences SPECTRA Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ароматичность 010304 chemical physics PHOSPHORESCENCE Aromaticity 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Internal conversion (chemistry) фотофизическое поведение MOLECULAR-ORBITAL METHODS Crystallography электронные спектры поглощения SINGLE chemistry Excited state 0210 nano-technology Sulflower |
| Zdroj: | Physical chemistry chemical physics. 2019. Vol. 21, № 18. P. 9246-9254 |
| ISSN: | 1463-9084 1463-9076 |
| Popis: | The electronic structure, absorption and emission spectra, aromaticity and photophysical behavior of the recently synthesized tetrasilatetrathia[8]circulene and tetragermatetrathia[8]circulene compounds have been studied computationally. Both compounds demonstrate a specific bifacial aromaticity, which is unusual for hetero[8]circulenes; the inner eight-membered core sustains an expected strong paratropic magnetically-induced ring current, while the outer perimeter contains saturated Si(Et)2 and Ge(Et)2 moieties which break the conjugation between the thiophene rings. The overall magnetically-induced ring current for both studied circulenes is close to zero because of the strong local diatropic currents in each thiophene ring that compensate the paratropic counterpart. The electronic absorption and emission spectra of tetrasilatetrathia[8]circulene and tetragermatetrathia[8]circulene demonstrate a clear visible vibronic progression. The 0–0 band is the most active one in the absorption spectra, while in the fluorescence spectra the 0–1 band composed of several normal vibrations is more intense compared with the 0–0 band in excellent agreement with experiment. Accounting for spin–orbit coupling effects, an analysis of the photophysical constants for the two compounds demonstrates: (1) a clear manifestation of the internal heavy atom effect on the inter-system crossing efficiency; (2) one to two order domination of non-radiative rates over the fluorescence rate; and (3) that the S1–S0 internal conversion is extremely slow and can not compete with the fluorescence, while the S1–Tn inter-system crossing is a main deactivation channel of the S1 excited state. These results provide new insight into the electronic structure and photophysics of tetrasilatetrathia[8]circulene and tetragermatetrathia[8]circulene as novel standalone representatives of hetero[8]circulenes – tetraannelated derivatives of tetrathienylene. |
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