Two-State Intramolecular Charge Transfer (ICT) with 3,5-Dimethyl-4-(dimethylamino)benzonitrile (MMD) and Its Meta-Isomer mMMD. Ground State Amino Twist Not Essential for ICT

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• 作者：Sergey I. Druzhinin ; Victor A. Galievsky ; Attila Demeter ; Sergey A. Kovalenko ; Tamara Senyushkina ; Srinivas R. Dubbaka ; Paul Knochel ; Peter Mayer ; Christian Grosse ; Dietmar Stalke ; Klaas A. Zachariasse
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry A
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 10, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：119
• 期：49
• 页码：11820-11836
• 全文大小：1019K
• ISSN：1520-5215

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From X-ray structure analysis, amino twist angles of 90.0掳 for 2,4-dimethyl-3-(dimethylamino)benzonitrile (mMMD), 82.7掳 for 4-(di-tert-butylamino)benzonitrile (DTABN), and 88.7掳 for 6-cyanobenzoquinuclidine (CBQ) are determined, all considerably larger than the 57.4掳 of 3,5-dimethyl-4-(dimethylamino)benzonitrile (MMD). This large twist leads to lengthening of the amino鈥損henyl bond, 143.5 pm (mMMD), 144.1 pm (DTABN), 144.6 pm (CBQ), and 141.4 pm (MMD), as compared with 136.5 pm for the planar 4-(dimethylamino)benzonitrile (DMABN). As a consequence, the electronic coupling between the amino and phenyl subgroups in mMMD, DTABN, CBQ, and MMD is much weaker than in DMABN, as seen from the strongly reduced molar absorption coefficients. The fluorescence spectrum of MMD in n-hexane at 25 掳C consists of two emissions, from a locally excited (LE) and an intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) state, with a fluorescence quantum yield ratio 桅鈥?ICT)/桅(LE) of 12.8. In MeCN, a single ICT emission is found. With mMMD in n-hexane, in contrast, only LE fluorescence is observed, whereas the spectrum in MeCN originates from the ICT state. These differences are also seen from the half-widths of the overall fluorescence bands, which in n-hexane are larger for MMD than for mMMD, decreasing with solvent polarity for MMD and increasing for mMMD, reflecting the disappearance of LE and the onset of ICT in the overall spectra, respectively. From solvatochromic measurements the dipole moments 渭_e(ICT) of MMD (16 D) and mMMD (15 D) are obtained. Femtosecond excited state absorption (ESA) spectra at 22 掳C, together with the dual (LE + ICT) fluorescence, reveal that MMD in n-hexane undergoes a reversible LE 鈬?ICT reaction, with LE as the precursor, with a forward rate constant k_a = 5.6 脳 10¹² s^鈥? and a back-reaction k_d 鈭?0.05 脳 10¹² s^鈥?. With MMD in the strongly polar solvent MeCN, ICT is faster: k_a = 10 脳 10¹² s^鈥?. In the case of mMMD in n-hexane, the ESA spectra show that ICT does not take place, contrary to MeCN, in which k_a = 2.5 脳 10¹² s^鈥?. The ICT reactions with MMD and mMMD are much faster than that of the parent compound DMABN in MeCN, with k_a = 0.24 脳 10¹² s^鈥?. Because of the very short ICT reaction times of 180 fs (MMD, n-hexane), 100 fs (MMD, MeCN), and 400 fs (mMMD, MeCN), it is clear that the picosecond fluorescence decays of these systems appear to be single exponential, due to the insufficient time resolution of 3 ps. It is concluded that the faster LE 鈫?ICT reaction of MMD as compared with DMABN (k_a = 0.24 脳 10¹² s^鈥? in MeCN) is caused by a smaller energy gap 螖E(S₁,S₂) between the lowest singlet excited states and not by the large amino twist angle. Similarly, the larger 螖E(S₁,S₂) of mMMD as compared with MMD is held responsible for its smaller ICT efficiency (no reaction in n-hexane).