Karbalaei Khani, Sarah and Geissler, Bastian and Engelage, Elric and Nuernberger, Patrick and Haettig, Christof (2021) Tracing absorption and emission characteristics of halogen-bonded ion pairs involving halogenated imidazolium species. PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 23 (12). pp. 7480-7494. ISSN 1463-9076, 1463-9084
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We investigate how the absorption and fluorescence of halogenated imidazolium compounds in acetonitrile solution is influenced by the presence of counterions and the ability to act as halogen-bond donors. Experimental measurements and quantum chemical calculations with correlated wavefunction methods are applied to study three monodentate halogen-bond complexes of iodo-imidazolium, iodo-benzimidazolium and bromo-benzimidazolium cations with triflate counterions, and a bidentate complex of bis(iodo-benzimidazolium) dications with chloride as counterion. The three monodentate complexes with triflate counterions relax after photoexcitation to minima on the S-1 potential energy surface where the C-I bond and the IMIDLINE HORIZONTAL ELLIPSISO halogen bond are partially broken. For the bidentate complex with the smaller chloride counterion the halogen-bond interaction stays intact in the S-1 minimum that is reached by relaxation from the Franck-Condon point. In a complementing experimental approach, stationary absorption and emission as well as transient fluorescence spectra are recorded for iodo- and bromo-benzimidazolium in acetonitrile. Variation of the counterion, substitution of the iodine by bromine, hydrogen, or methyl, and the comparison to theory allows the identification of spectroscopic signatures and photoinduced dynamics associated with ion-pairing.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY; EXCITED-STATE DYNAMICS; BASIS-SETS; PROTON-TRANSFER; ENERGY; ACTIVATION; SYMMETRY; EXCHANGE; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; APPROXIMATION |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 540 Chemistry & allied sciences |
| Divisions: | Chemistry and Pharmacy > Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie > Chair of Physical Chemistry I > Prof. Dr. Patrick Nürnberger |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2022 05:03 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Aug 2022 05:03 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/46687 |
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