Experimental and theoretical study on the excited-state dynamics of ortho-, meta-, and para-methoxy methylcinnamate

The Journal of Chemical Physics Volume 141 Page 244313-1-244313-12 published_at 2014-12-31
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Experimental and theoretical study on the excited-state dynamics of ortho-, meta-, and para-methoxy methylcinnamate
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Miyazaki Yasunori
Yamamoto Kanji
Aoki Jun
Ehara Masahiro
Source Title
The Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume 141
Start Page 244313-1
End Page 244313-12
Abstract
The S1 state dynamics of methoxy methylcinnamate (MMC) has been investigated under supersonic jet-cooled conditions. The vibrationally resolved S1-S0 absorption spectrum was recorded by laser induced fluorescence and mass-resolved resonant two-photon ionization spectroscopy and separated into conformers by UV-UV hole-burning (UV-UV HB) spectroscopy. The S1 lifetime measurements revealed different dynamics of para-methoxy methylcinnamate from ortho-methoxy methylcinnamate and meta-methoxy methylcinnamate (hereafter, abbreviated as p-, o-, and m-MMCs, respectively). The lifetimes of o-MMC and m-MMC are on the nanosecond time scale and exhibit little tendency of excess energy dependence. On the other hand, p-MMC decays much faster and its lifetime is conformer and excess energy dependent. In addition, the p-MMC-H2O complex was studied to explore the effect of hydration on the S1 state dynamics of p-MMC, and it was found that the hydration significantly accelerates the nonradiative decay. Quantum chemical calculation was employed to search the major decay route from S1(ππ*) for three MMCs and p-MMC-H2O in terms of (i) trans → cis isomerization and (ii) internal conversion to the 1nπ* state. In o-MMC and m-MMC, the large energy barrier is created for the nonradiative decay along (i) the double-bond twisting coordinate (~1000 cm-1) in S1 as well as (ii) the linear interpolating internal coordinate (~1000 cm-1) from S1 to 1nπ? states. The calculation on p-MMC decay dynamics suggests that both (i) and (ii) are available due to small energy barrier, i.e., 160 cm-1 by the double-bond twisting and 390 cm-1 by the potential energy crossing. The hydration of p-MMC raises the energy barrier of the IC route to the S1/1nπ* conical intersection, convincing that the direct isomerization is more likely to occur.
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Chemistry [ 430 ]
Language
eng
Resource Type journal article
Publisher
American Institute of Physics
Date of Issued 2014-12-31
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Copyright (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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Access Rights open access
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[ISSN] 0021-9606
[DOI] 10.1063/1.4904268
[DOI] http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4904268 isVersionOf