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Raman and IR Spectroelectrochemical Methods as Tools to Analyze Conjugated Organic Compounds
Published on: October 12, 2018
Electronic couplings in organic mixed-valence compounds: the contribution of photoelectron spectroscopy
Veaceslav Coropceanu1, Nadine E Gruhn, Stephen Barlow
1School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, USA. veaceslav.coropceanu@chemistry.gatech.edu
Abstract:
We show that the electronic coupling in strongly coupled organic mixed-valence systems can be effectively probed by means of gas-phase ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS). Taking six diamines as examples, the UPS estimates for the electronic couplings H(ab) are compared with the corresponding values determined from the intervalence charge-transfer absorption bands and from electronic structure calculations. Similar trends are observed for the H(ab) values estimated from UPS and optical spectra; this provides support for the applicability of Hush theory to strongly coupled organic mixed-valence systems. The UPS electronic couplings are found to be somewhat smaller than those from optical spectroscopy, which is attributed to the role of vibronic coupling to symmetrical modes; when corrected for this vibronic coupling, the UPS H(ab) estimates confirm that triarylamine-based mixed-valence systems are close to the class-II/class-III borderline.
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