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CHEMICAL SCIENCE
Volume 12, Issue 32, Pages 10791-10801Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1sc02149d
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG] [SPP 2102, GO 1059/8-1]
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The non-adiabatic dynamics of (VCl3)-Cl-III(ddpd) complex and its phosphorescence properties were studied, revealing that 1-2% of the system can remain stable for 10 picoseconds and exhibit phosphorescence. During the dynamics, nuclear motion mainly involves increasing metal-ligand bond distances and decreasing trans-coordinated ligand atom angles to drive transitions between different electronic states.
We report the non-adiabatic dynamics of (VCl3)-Cl-III(ddpd), a complex based on the Earth-abundant first-row transition metal vanadium with a d(2) electronic configuration which is able to emit phosphorescence in solution in the near-infrared spectral region. Trajectory surface-hopping dynamics based on linear vibronic coupling potentials obtained with CASSCF provide molecular-level insights into the intersystem crossing from triplet to singlet metal-centered states. While the majority of the singlet population undergoes back-intersystem crossing to the triplet manifold, 1-2% remains stable during the 10 ps simulation time, enabling the phosphorescence described in Dorn et al. Chem. Sci., 2021, DOI: 10.1039/D1SC02137K. Competing with intersystem crossing, two different relaxation channels via internal conversion through the triplet manifold occur. The nuclear motion that drives the dynamics through the different electronic states corresponds mainly to the increase of all metal-ligand bond distances as well as the decrease of the angles of trans-coordinated ligand atoms. Both motions lead to a decrease in the ligand-field splitting, which stabilizes the interconfigurational excited states populated during the dynamics. Analysis of the electronic character of the states reveals that increasing and stabilizing the singlet population, which in turn can result in enhanced phosphorescence, could be accomplished by further increasing the ligand-field strength.
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