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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 114, Issue 17, Pages 5580-5587Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp100338d
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- EU [GA 201729]
- NATO [SPS/CBP.MD.CLG.983711]
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A theoretical investigation on the electronic structure of 4-dimethylamino-4'-nitrostilbene (DANS), 4-(dicyanomethylene)-2-methyl-6-p-(dimethylamino) styryl-4H-pyran (DCM), and their protonated forms is presented in an effort to rationalize recent experimental results on the tuning of the emitted color of organic light-emitting diodes through photochemically induced protonation. Density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations have been carried out on the neutral and protonated forms of DANS and DCM, employing both the B3LYP and the CAM-B3LYP functionals. It was found that the CAM-B3LYP functional leads to better agreement than the B3LYP of the calculated with the experimental absorption lambda(max) for DANS, whereas B3LYP is more appropriate than CAM-B3LYP for DCM. The results of the calculations aid in a rationalization of the observed differences of the spectra of DANS and DCM upon protonation, and in particular those differences that make DANS a more attractive system for absorbance and emission tuning.
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