Issue 10, 2006

Solid state fluorescence of Pigment Yellow 101 and derivatives: a conserved property of the individual molecules

Abstract

The optical properties of the bisazomethine pigments Pigment Yellow 101 (P.Y.101) and three derivatives are investigated employing density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TDDFT). P.Y.101 and one of its derivatives exhibit unusual solid state fluorescence, although both possess OH groups and the latter pigment has particularly small intermolecular distances in its crystal, which are both properties that contradict common empirical rules for fluorescent pigments. Here it is shown that the OH groups are indeed essential for molecular fluorescence of the pigments due to the necessary formation of an intramolecular hydrogen bond with the lone pairs of the bisazomethine nitrogens. Furthermore, the quenching mechanism of molecular fluorescence in the non-fluorescent derivatives is analyzed in detail and a CNN bending motion of the central bisazomethine substructure is identified to be the relevant reaction coordinate along which efficient fluorescence quenching occurs in the individual molecule as well as in the crystal. Electron transfer quenching, which usually is expected to be an important quenching mechanism in aggregated media (here the crystals), is ruled out for the studied bisazomethine pigments. The solid state fluorescence properties of the pigments can finally be understood as conserved molecular properties of the individual pigment molecules.

Graphical abstract: Solid state fluorescence of Pigment Yellow 101 and derivatives: a conserved property of the individual molecules

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
19 Oct 2005
Accepted
03 Jan 2006
First published
26 Jan 2006

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2006,8, 1197-1204

Solid state fluorescence of Pigment Yellow 101 and derivatives: a conserved property of the individual molecules

J. Plötner and A. Dreuw, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2006, 8, 1197 DOI: 10.1039/B514815D

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