scholarly journals Exploitation of Baird Aromaticity and Clar’s Rule for Tuning the Triplet Energies of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Chemistry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 532-549
Author(s):  
Felix Plasser
Keyword(s):  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Excited States ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Chemical Shifts ◽  
Qualitative Description ◽  
Triplet States ◽  
Excitation Energies ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are a prominent substance class with a variety of applications in molecular materials science. Their electronic properties crucially depend on the bond topology in ways that are often highly non-intuitive. Here, we study, using density functional theory, the triplet states of four biphenylene-derived PAHs finding dramatically different triplet excitation energies for closely related isomeric structures. These differences are rationalised using a qualitative description of Clar sextets and Baird quartets, quantified in terms of nucleus independent chemical shifts, and represented graphically through a recently developed method for visualising chemical shielding tensors (VIST). The results are further interpreted in terms of a 2D rigid rotor model of aromaticity and through an analysis of the natural transition orbitals involved in the triplet excited states showing good consistency between the different viewpoints. We believe that this work constitutes an important step in consolidating these varying viewpoints of electronically excited states.

scholarly journals Exploitation of Baird Aromaticity and Clar's Rule for Tuning the Triplet Energies of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Plasser
Keyword(s):  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Excited States ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Chemical Shifts ◽  
Qualitative Description ◽  
Triplet States ◽  
Excitation Energies ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are a prominent substance class with a variety of applications in molecular materials science. Their electronic properties crucially depend on the bond topology in ways that are often highly non-intuitive. Here, we study, using density functional theory, the triplet states of four PAHs based on the biphenylene motif finding dramatically different triplet excitation energies for closely related isomeric structures. These differences are rationalised using a qualitative description of Clar sextets and Baird quartets, quantified in terms of nucleus independent chemical shifts, and represented graphically through a recently developed method for visualising chemical shielding tensors (VIST). These results are further interpreted in terms of a 2D rigid rotor model of aromaticity and through an analysis of the natural transition orbitals involved in the triplet excited states showing good consistency between the different viewpoints. We believe that this work constitutes an important step in consolidating these varying viewpoints of electronically excited states.

scholarly journals Exploitation of Baird Aromaticity and Clar's Rule for Tuning the Triplet Energies of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Plasser
Keyword(s):  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Excited States ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Chemical Shifts ◽  
Qualitative Description ◽  
Triplet States ◽  
Excitation Energies ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are a prominent substance class with a variety of applications in molecular materials science. Their electronic properties crucially depend on the bond topology in ways that are often highly non-intuitive. Here, we study, using density functional theory, the triplet states of four PAHs based on the biphenylene motif finding dramatically different triplet excitation energies for closely related isomeric structures. These differences are rationalised using a qualitative description of Clar sextets and Baird quartets, quantified in terms of nucleus independent chemical shifts, and represented graphically through a recently developed method for visualising chemical shielding tensors (VIST). These results are further interpreted in terms of a 2D rigid rotor model of aromaticity and through an analysis of the natural transition orbitals involved in the triplet excited states showing good consistency between the different viewpoints. We believe that this work constitutes an important step in consolidating these varying viewpoints of electronically excited states.

Electron delocalization and electron density of small polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in singlet excited states

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (17) ◽  
pp. 11792-11799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mar Estévez-Fregoso ◽  
Jesús Hernández-Trujillo
Keyword(s):  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Electron Density ◽  
Excited States ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Electron Delocalization ◽  
Excitation Energies ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic

Electron delocalization allows us to study the similarity and aromaticity of PAHs in excited states, and can be correlated with the excitation energies.

scholarly journals Calculation of vibrationally resolved absorption spectra of acenes and pyrene

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (37) ◽  
pp. 21094-21103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Benkyi ◽  
Enrico Tapavicza ◽  
Heike Fliegl ◽  
Dage Sundholm
Keyword(s):  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Absorption Spectra ◽  
Excited States ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Function Method ◽  
Electronic Excitation ◽  
Excitation Energies ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic ◽  
Vibrational Energies ◽  
P Absorption

Absorption spectra of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons have been simulated by using a real-time generating function method that combines adiabatic electronic excitation energies with vibrational energies of the excited states.

Hydrogenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (HnPAHs) as catalysts for hydrogenation reactions in the interstellar medium: a quantum chemical model

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (22) ◽  
pp. 12012-12020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo M. Ferullo ◽  
Carolina E. Zubieta ◽  
Patricia G. Belelli
Keyword(s):  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Quantum Chemical ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Activation Barrier ◽  
Functional Studies ◽  
Quantum Chemical Model ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic ◽  
Hydrogenation Reactions ◽  
No Activation

Density functional studies show that neutral HnPAHs are able to catalyze the formation of water with no activation barrier.

scholarly journals Estimation of n-octanol/water partition coefficients of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by quantum chemical descriptors

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gui-Ning Lu ◽  
Xue-Qin Tao ◽  
Zhi Dang ◽  
Xiao-Yun Yi ◽  
Chen Yang
Keyword(s):  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Quantum Chemical ◽  
Partition Coefficients ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Optimal Model ◽  
Quantum Chemical Descriptors ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic ◽  
Pls Analysis ◽  
Chemical Descriptors

AbstractQuantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) modeling is a powerful approach for predicting environmental behavior of organic pollutants with their structure descriptors. This study reports an optimal QSPR model for estimating logarithmic n-octanol/water partition coefficients (log K OW) of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Quantum chemical descriptors computed with density functional theory at B3LYP/6-31G(d) level and partial least squares (PLS) analysis with optimizing procedure were used for generating QSPR models for log K OW of PAHs. The squared correlation coefficient (R 2) of the optimal model was 0.990, and the results of crossvalidation test (Q 2cum=0.976) showed this optimal model had high fitting precision and good predictability. The log K OW values predicted by the optimal model are very close to those observed. The PLS analysis indicated that PAHs with larger electronic spatial extent and lower total energy values tend to be more hydrophobic and lipophilic.

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