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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-4-3
pubmed:abstractText
The structural and electronic properties of neutral and oxidized terthiophenes substituted with polyaromatic systems have been investigated using a combination of both Raman and electronic absorption spectroscopy in conjunction with density functional theory calculations. Naphthylethenyl terthiophene exhibits structural and electronic properties, in both the neutral and oxidized species, that are dominated by the terthiophene backbone, in a manner similar to that previously reported for phenylethenylterthiophene. Anthracenylethenyl terthiophene, on the other hand, displays properties that are dominated by the anthracene group. Unlike both phenylethenyl and naphthylethenyl terthiophene, which have electronic absorption spectra dominated by transitions between molecular orbitals that are delocalized throughout the molecules, the absorption spectrum of anthracenylethenyl terthiophene consists of a simple addition of the absorption bands of the separate terthiophene and anthracenylethene chromophores. This is the result of a spatial partitioning of its molecular orbitals that effectively electronically decouples the anthracene and terthiophene moieties. Upon oxidation, the naphthylethenylterthiophene sigma-dimerizes to form sexithiophene charged species and spectral signatures of the sexithiophene backbone are evident in both the electronic absorption and resonance Raman spectra. In contrast, these signatures are absent in the corresponding spectra of the oxidized anthracenylethenylterthiophene, suggesting that the anthracene group is the primary site of the structural changes induced by oxidation.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1089-5639
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
29
pubmed:volume
111
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2385-97
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Modulation of electronic properties in neutral and oxidized oligothiophenes substituted with conjugated polyaromatic hydrocarbons.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article