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Photophysics of octabutoxy phthalocyaninato-Ni(II) in toluene: Ultrafast experiments and DFT/TDDFT studies
Gunaratne, Tissa C.,Gusev, Alexey V.,Peng, Xinzhan,Rosa, Angela,Ricciardi, Giampaolo,Baerends, Evert Jan,Rizzoli, Corrado,Kenney, Malcolm E.,Rodgers, Michael A. J.
, p. 2078 - 2089 (2005)
Reported herein is a combination of experimental and DFT/TDDFT theoretical investigations of the ground and excited states of 1,4,8,11,15,18,22,25- Octabutoxyphthalocyaninato-nickel(II), NiPc(BuO)8, and the dynamics of its deactivation after excitation into the S1(π,π*) state in toluene solution. According to X-ray crystallographic analysis NiPc(BuO)8 has a highly saddled structure in the solid state. However, DFT studies suggest that in solution the complex is likely to flap from one D2d-saddled conformation to the opposite one through a D 4h-planar structure. The spectral and kinetic changes for the complex in toluene are understood in terms of the 730 nm excitation light generating a primarily excited S1 (π,π*) state that transforms initially into a vibrationally hot 3(dz2,dx2-y2 state. Cooling to the zeroth state is complete after ca. 8 ps. The cold (d,d) state converted to its daughter state, the 3LMCT (πd x2-y2), which itself decays to the ground state with a lifetime of 640 ps. The proposed deactivation mechanism applies to the D2d- saddled and the D4h-planar structure as well. The results presented here for NiPc(BuO)8 suggest that in nickel phthalocyanines the 1,3LMCT (π,dx2-y2) states may provide effective routes for radiationless deactivation of the 1,3(π,π*) states.