TY - JOUR
T1 - Electronic structure of the lowest singlet and triplet excited states in cyano-substituted oligo(phenylene vinylene)s
AU - Dos Santos, D. A.
AU - Beljonne, D.
AU - Cornil, J.
AU - Brédas, J. L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The work in Mons is partly supported by the European Commission (ESPRIT Project LEDFOS-8013), the Belgian Prime Minister Office of Science Policy (SSTC) "Prle d'Attraction Interuniversitaire P4/11 en Chimie Supramolrculaire et Catalyse", FNRS/FRFC, and an IBM Academic Joint Study. DB is "Charg6 de Recherches" and JC, "Aspirant" of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS).
PY - 1998/2/1
Y1 - 1998/2/1
N2 - The lowest singlet and triplet excited states in cyano-substituted phenylene vinylene oligomers are characterized by means of configuration interaction calculations. First, the vertical singlet-singlet, S0 → S1, singlet-triplet, S0 → T1, and triplet-triplet T1 → Tn, excitation energies are evaluated in oligomers ranging in size from two to five phenylene rings; the spatial extent of the S1, T1, and Tn excited states is estimated on the basis of a simple analysis of their wavefunctions. We then pay attention to the lattice distortions taking place in the lowest singlet and triplet excited states of these model oligomers. In each case, the results are compared to those obtained for the corresponding unsubstituted oligo(phenylene vinylene)s. Besides the bathochromic shift associated with the electroactive character of the substituents, an overall localization of the excited state wavefunction is found when going from unsubstituted to cyano-substituted oligomers.
AB - The lowest singlet and triplet excited states in cyano-substituted phenylene vinylene oligomers are characterized by means of configuration interaction calculations. First, the vertical singlet-singlet, S0 → S1, singlet-triplet, S0 → T1, and triplet-triplet T1 → Tn, excitation energies are evaluated in oligomers ranging in size from two to five phenylene rings; the spatial extent of the S1, T1, and Tn excited states is estimated on the basis of a simple analysis of their wavefunctions. We then pay attention to the lattice distortions taking place in the lowest singlet and triplet excited states of these model oligomers. In each case, the results are compared to those obtained for the corresponding unsubstituted oligo(phenylene vinylene)s. Besides the bathochromic shift associated with the electroactive character of the substituents, an overall localization of the excited state wavefunction is found when going from unsubstituted to cyano-substituted oligomers.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0301-0104(97)00242-5
DO - 10.1016/S0301-0104(97)00242-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032002133
VL - 227
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - Chemical Physics
JF - Chemical Physics
SN - 0301-0104
IS - 1-2
ER -