Experimental and computational study of solvent effects on one- and two-photon absorption spectra of chlorinated harmines

A combined experimental and computational study of solvent effects on one- and two-photon absorption spectra of three chlorinated harmine derivatives is presented. The systems studied were protonated forms of 6-chloroharmine, 8-chloroharmine and 6,8-dichloroharmine in two solvents, acetonitrile and...

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Authors: Hršak, Dalibor; Holmegaard, Lotte; Poulsen, Anton S.; List, Nanna H.; Kongsted, Jacob; Denofrio, Maria Paula; Erra Balsells, Rosa; Cabrerizo, Franco Martín; Christiansen, Ove; Ogilby, Peter R.
Format: Article
Status:Published version
Publication date:2015
Country:Argentina
Institution:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repository:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/29503
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/29503
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Two-Photon Excitation
B-Carbolines
Solvent Effect
Computational Study
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Summary:A combined experimental and computational study of solvent effects on one- and two-photon absorption spectra of three chlorinated harmine derivatives is presented. The systems studied were protonated forms of 6-chloroharmine, 8-chloroharmine and 6,8-dichloroharmine in two solvents, acetonitrile and water. For the computations, polarizable embedding density functional and coupled cluster response theory methods were used. The computations were able to model the solvent-dependent experimental data well. These results demonstrate that reasonably sophisticated computational methods can be successfully applied to accurately study linear and nonlinear spectroscopic properties of comparatively large organic molecules in solution.