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Toward Quantitative Prediction of Molecular Fluorescence Quantum Efficiency: Role of Duschinsky Rotation

Toward Quantitative Prediction of Molecular Fluorescence Quantum Efficiency: Role of Duschinsky Rotation

Qian Peng, Yuanping Yi, Zhigang Shuai, Jiushu Shao

J Am Chem Soc. 2007 Aug 1;129(30):9333-9.

PMID: 17622142

Abstract:

It is a highly desirable but difficult task to predict the molecular fluorescence quantum efficiency from first principles. The molecule in the excited state can undergo spontaneous radiation, conversion of electronic energy to nuclear motion, or chemical reaction. For relatively large molecules, it is impossible to obtain the full potential energy surfaces for the ground state and the excited states to study the excited-state dynamics. We show that, under harmonic approximation by considering the Duschinsky rotation effect, the molecular fluorescence properties can be quantitatively calculated from first principles coupled with our correlation function formalism for the internal conversion. In particular, we have explained the peculiar fluorescence behaviors of two isomeric compounds, cis,cis-1,2,3,4-tetraphenyl-1,3-butadiene and 1,1,4,4-tetraphenyl-butadiene, the former being nonemissive in solution and strongly emissive in aggregation or at low temperature, and the latter being strongly emissive in solution. The roles of low-frequency phenyl ring twist motions and their Duschinsky mode mixings are found to be crucial, especially to reveal the temperature dependence. As an independent check, we take a look at the well-established photophysics of 1,4-diphenylbutadiene for its three different conformers. Both the calculated radiative and nonradiative rates are in excellent agreement with the available experimental measurements.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP1450631	1,1,4,4-Tetraphenyl-1,3-butadiene		1450-63-1	Price

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