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trajectory surface-hopping dynamics studies of excited-state proton-coupled electron transfer reactions in trianisoleheptazine-phenol complexes
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Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP, 2022-07, Vol.24 (26), p.15925-15936
Erscheinungsjahr
2022
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The excited-state proton-coupled electron-transfer (PCET) reaction in hydrogen-bonded complexes of trianisoleheptazine (TAHz), a chromophore related to polymeric carbon nitrides widely used in hydrogen-evolution photocatalysis, with several phenol derivatives were recently studied by Schlenker and coworkers with time-resolved photoluminescence quenching and pump-probe experiments. A pronounced dependence of the PCET reactivity on the electron-donating/electron-withdrawing character of the substituents on phenol was found, with indications of a barrierless or nearly barrierless PCET reaction for the most strongly electron-donating substituent, methoxy. In the present work, the excited-state PCET dynamics was explored with first-principles nonadiabatic dynamics simulations using the TDDFT/ωB97X-D electronic-structure model for two selected complexes, TAHz-phenol and TAHz-methoxyphenol. The qualitative reliability of the TDDFT/ωB97X-D electronic-structure model was assessed by extensive benchmarking of excitation energies and potential-energy profiles against a wave-function-based
ab initio
method, the algebraic-diagrammatic construction of second order (ADC(2)). The nonadiabatic dynamics simulations provide temporally and structurally resolved insights into paradigmatic PCET reactions in TAHz-phenol complexes. The radiationless relaxation of the photoexcited bright
1
ππ* state to the long-lived dark S
1
state of TAHz occurs in less than 100 fs. The ensuing PCET reaction on the adiabatic S
1
surface is faster in TAHz-methoxyphenol complexes than in TAHz-phenol complexes due to a lower H-atom-transfer barrier, as observed in the experiments. The relaxation of the complexes to the electronic ground state is found to occur exclusively
via
PCET within the 250 fs time window covered by the present simulations, confirming the essential role of the hydrogen bond for the fluorescence quenching process. The absolute values of the computed PCET time constants are significantly shorter than those extracted from time-resolved photoluminescence measurements for mixtures of TAHz with phenolic substrates in toluene. The possible origins of this discrepancy are discussed.
Ab initio
surface-hopping dynamics simulations provide temporally and structurally resolved insight into the photoinduced proton-coupled electron transfer reaction in hydrogen-bonded complexes of trianisoleheptazine with phenol and methoxyphenol.
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Identifikatoren
ISSN: 1463-9076
eISSN: 1463-9084
DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01262f
Titel-ID: cdi_rsc_primary_d2cp01262f
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