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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 111, Issue 42, Pages 10490-10499Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp075248q
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A comprehensive study of the photophysical properties of a series of monoaza[5]helicenes is presented on the basis of joint optical spectroscopy and quantum chemistry investigations. The molecules have been characterized by absorption and CW/time-resolved luminescence measurements. All quantities related to spin-orbit-coupling processes; such as intersystem crossing rates and radiative phosphorescence lifetimes, were found to depend strongly on the nitrogen position within the carbon backbone. Density functional theory and semiempirical quantum-chemical methods were used to evaluate the molecular geometries, the characteristics of the excited singlet and triplet states, and the spin-orbit coupling matrix elements. We demonstrate that the magnitude of spin-orbit coupling is directly con-elated with the degree of deviation from planarity. The trends from the calculated photophysical quantities, namely, radiative fluorescence and phosphorescence decay rates and intersystem crossing rates, of the mono-aza-helicenes are fully consistent with experiment.
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