scholarly journals An Experimental and Theoretical Study of Dye Properties of Thiophenyl Derivatives of 2-Hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone (Lawsone)

Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (19) ◽  
pp. 5587
Author(s):  
Matías Monroy-Cárdenas ◽  
Oscar Forero-Doria ◽  
Ramiro Araya-Maturana ◽  
Maximiliano Martínez-Cifuentes

A prospective study of the dye properties of non-toxic lawsone thiophenyl derivatives, obtained using a green synthetic methodology allowed for the description of their bathochromic shifts in comparison to those of lawsone, a well-known natural pigment used as a colorant that recently also has aroused interest in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC). These compounds exhibited colors close to red, with absorption bands in visible and UV wavelength range. The colorimetric study showed that these compounds exhibited a darker color than that of lawsone within a range of colors depending on the substituent in the phenyl ring. Computational calculations employing Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT), showed that the derivatives have lower excitation energies than lawsone, while the alignment of their frontier orbitals regarding the conduction bands of TiO2 and ZnO and the redox potential of the electrolyte I−/I3− suggests that they could be employed as sensitizers. The study of the interactions of the lawsone and a derivative with a TiO2 surface model by different anchoring modes, showed that the adsorption is thermodynamically favored. Natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis indicates a two-center bonding (BD) O-Ti as the main interaction of the dyes with TiO2.

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (05) ◽  
pp. 2050020
Author(s):  
Sidra Ghafoor ◽  
Asim Mansha ◽  
Sadia Asim ◽  
Muhammad Usman ◽  
Ameer Fawad Zahoor ◽  
...  

In the present work, we have studied the 2-hydroxy 2-methyl propiophenone (2H2MPP) theoretically as well as experimentally. The optimized molecular structure has been obtained by the density functional theory (DFT), second-order Moller–Plesset perturbation theory (MP2) and Hartree Fock (HF) in the gas phase as well as in different media like ethanol, DMSO and heptane. FT-IR and FT-Raman spectra were computed as well as recorded and fundamental vibrational wavenumbers were assigned. The electronic absorption spectra were calculated by employing the time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) to get the information about excitation energies, oscillator strength and excited state geometries in gas phase and in different solvent media. Chemical activity and chemical stability obtained by HOMO-LUMO studies using a HF/6-31[Formula: see text]G and MP2/6-311[Formula: see text]G calculations. The chemical interpretation of hyperconjugation interactions obtained by the Natural Bond Orbital (NBO) analysis. Moreover, electrostatic potential (ESP) calculations performed to get the visual representation of relative polarity of molecule. Thermodynamic parameters like enthalpy, entropy, heat capacity, and Gibbs free energy computed with varying temperature from 10[Formula: see text]K to 500[Formula: see text]K. The aim of the current investigation is to find out the quantum chemical properties of the title compound which show an active role in the pharmaceutical and printing industries.


2006 ◽  
Vol 05 (03) ◽  
pp. 595-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
KRIENGSAK SRIWICHITKAMOL ◽  
SONGWUT SURAMITR ◽  
POTJAMAN POOLMEE ◽  
SUPA HANNONGBUA

The structural and energetic properties of polyfluorene and its derivatives were investigated, using quantum chemical calculations. Conformational analysis of bifluorene was performed by using ab initio (HF/6-31G* and MP2/6-31G*) and density functional theory (B3LYP/6-31G*) calculations. The results showed that the local energy minimum of bifluorene lies between the coplanar and perpendicular conformation, and the B3LYP/6-31G* calculations led to the overestimation of the stability of the planar pi systems. The HOMO-LUMO energy differences of fluorene oligomers and its derivatives — 9,9-dihexylfluorene (DHPF), 9,9-dioctylfluorene (PFO), and bis(2-ethylhexyl)fluorene (BEHPF) — were calculated at the B3LYP/6-31G* level. Energy gaps and effective conjugation lengths of the corresponding polymers were obtained by extrapolating HOMO-LUMO energy differences and the lowest excitation energies to infinite chain length. The lowest excitation energies and the maximum absorption wavelength of polyfluorene were also performed, employing the time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) and ZINDO methods. The extrapolations, based on TDDFT and ZINDO calculations, agree well with experimental results. These theoretical methods can be useful for the design of new polymeric structures with a reducing energy gap.


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (37) ◽  
pp. 21078-21086
Author(s):  
Tomomi Shimazaki ◽  
Masanori Tachikawa

In this work, the excitation energies of asymmetric thiazolothizaole (TTz) dye molecules have been theoretically studied using dielectric-dependent density functional theory (DFT).


2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (44) ◽  
pp. 30089-30096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie J. Bao ◽  
Laura Gagliardi ◽  
Donald G. Truhlar

MC-PDFT is more accurate than CR-EOM-CCSD(T) or TDDFT when averaged over the first four adiabatic excitation energies of CN.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2231-2242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Croix J. Laconsay ◽  
Ka Yi Tsui ◽  
Dean J. Tantillo

We interrogate a type of heterolytic fragmentation called a ‘divergent fragmentation’ using density functional theory (DFT), natural bond orbital (NBO) analysis, ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD), and external electric field (EEF) calculations.


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