Ring-to-Chain Structural Relaxation of Elemental Sulfur upon Photoexcitation
Ring-to-Chain Structural Relaxation of Elemental Sulfur upon Photoexcitation
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光激发下元素硫的环链结构弛豫
DOI:
10.1021/acsmaterialslett.2c00866
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发表时间:
2022
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11.4
通讯作者:
Brédas, Jean-Luc
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作者:
Cho, Eunkyung;Pratik, Saied Md;Pyun, Jeffrey;Coropceanu, Veaceslav;Brédas, Jean-Luc
The emergence of high sulfur content polymeric materials and their applications in a number of important areas call for a comprehensive understanding of the chemical and physical properties of elemental sulfur. In spite of many earlier efforts, a thorough description of the electronic structure and photorelaxation pathways of the S8ring, the thermodynamically stable structure of elemental sulfur, remains largely unexplored. It can be expected that the photoinduced homolytic processes of S8and intermediates are analogous to those in the species observed via thermally induced processes. Here, we combine time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) and highly correlated wave function STEOM-CCSD calculations to describe the photoinduced homolytic pathways in both singlet and triplet excited-state manifolds and explore thering-to-chainrelaxations. The results of our calculations indicate that, upon photoexcitation, the S8ring undergoes a fast intersystem crossing (ISC) from the S1state to the triplet manifold, with estimated ISC rates of over 1011s–1as a result of significant spin–orbit couplings. The TD-DFT geometry relaxations in the singlet and triplet excited states underline that, upon photoexcitation, an S–S bond within the S8ring readily undergoes homolytic fragmentation, a feature that is thus also expected upon thermal excitation. Importantly, this represents the first theoretical demonstration that the molecular structure in the triplet state evolves from aringconfiguration to an openchainconfiguration that carries a diradical character, which is consistent with the reported photoinduced polymerization processes in elemental sulfur.
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