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Critical Role of Protons for Emission Quenching of Indoline Dyes in Solution and on Semiconductor Surfaces
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- El-Zohry, Ahmed (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Uppsala universitet,Fysikalisk kemi,Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, AlbaNova Univ Ctr, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.,Fysikum,Ångström Laboratories, Sweden
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- Agrawal, Saurabh (author)
- Ist CNR Sci & Tecnol Chim Giulio Natta CNR SCITEC, Computat Lab Hybrid Organ Photovolta CLHYO, I-06123 Perugia, Italy.
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- De Angelis, Filippo (author)
- Ist CNR Sci & Tecnol Chim Giulio Natta CNR SCITEC, Computat Lab Hybrid Organ Photovolta CLHYO, I-06123 Perugia, Italy.;Univ Perugia, Dept Chem Biol & Biotechnol, I-06123 Perugia, Italy.;Ist Italiano Tecnol, CompuNet, I-16163 Genoa, Italy.
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- Pastore, Mariachiara (author)
- Univ Lorraine, Lab Phys & Chim Theor LPCT, F-54000 Nancy, France.;CNRS, F-54000 Nancy, France.
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- Zietz, Burkhard (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Fysikalisk kemi
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- 2020-09-08
- 2020
- English.
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In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. - : AMER CHEMICAL SOC. - 1932-7447 .- 1932-7455. ; 124:39, s. 21346-21356
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- By combining time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) measurements, density functional theory (DFT), and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) calculations, we herein investigate the role of protons, in solutions and on semiconductor surfaces, for the emission quenching of indoline dyes. We show that the rhodanine acceptor moieties, and in particular the carbonyl oxygens, undergo protonation, leading to nonradiative excited-state deactivation. The presence of the carboxylic acid anchoring group, close to the rhodanine moiety, further facilitates the emission quenching, by establishing stable H-bond complexes with carboxylic acid quenchers, with high association constants, in both ground and excited states. This complexation favors the proton transfer process, at a low quencher concentration, in two ways: bringing close to the rhodanine unit the quencher and assisting the proton release from the acid by a partial-concerted proton donation from the close-by carboxylic group to the deprotonated acid. Esterification of the carboxylic group, indeed, inhibits the ground-state complex formation with carboxylic acids and thus the quenching at a low quencher concentration. However, the rhodanine moiety in the ester form can still be the source of emission quenching through dynamic quenching mechanism with higher concentrations of protic solvents or carboxylic acids. Investigating this quenching process on mesoporous ZrO2, for solar cell applications, also reveals the sensitivity of the adsorbed excited rhodanine dyes toward adsorbed protons on surfaces. This has been confirmed by using an organic base to remove surface protons and utilizing cynao-acrylic dye as a reference dye. Our study highlights the impact of selecting such acceptor group in the structural design of organic dyes for solar cell applications and the overlooked role of protons to quench the excited state for such chemical structures.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Kemi -- Fysikalisk kemi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Chemical Sciences -- Physical Chemistry (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Kemi -- Organisk kemi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Chemical Sciences -- Organic Chemistry (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Kemi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Chemical Sciences (hsv//eng)
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