Identifying electron transfer coordinates in donor-bridge-acceptor systems using mode projection analysis

Xunmo Yang, Theo Keane, Milan Delor, Anthony J. H. M. Meijer, Julia Weinstein and Eric R. Bittner ()
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Xunmo Yang: University of Houston
Theo Keane: University of Sheffield
Milan Delor: University of Sheffield
Anthony J. H. M. Meijer: University of Sheffield
Julia Weinstein: University of Sheffield
Eric R. Bittner: University of Houston

Nature Communications, 2017, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract We report upon an analysis of the vibrational modes that couple and drive the state-to-state electronic transfer branching ratios in a model donor-bridge-acceptor system consisting of a phenothiazine-based donor linked to a naphthalene-monoimide acceptor via a platinum-acetylide bridging unit. Our analysis is based upon an iterative Lanczos search algorithm that finds superpositions of vibronic modes that optimize the electron/nuclear coupling using input from excited-state quantum chemical methods. Our results indicate that the electron transfer reaction coordinates between a triplet charge-transfer state and lower lying charge-separated and localized excitonic states are dominated by asymmetric and symmetric modes of the acetylene groups on either side of the central atom in this system. In particular, we find that while a nearly symmetric mode couples both the charge-separation and charge-recombination transitions more or less equally, the coupling along an asymmetric mode is far greater suggesting that IR excitation of the acetylene modes preferentially enhances charge-recombination transition relative to charge-separation.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14554

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