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Published on: November 18, 2015
Structural, vibrational and electronic spectroscopic study of 6-hydroxycoumarin using experimental and theoretical
D Vijay1, Y Sushma Priya2, M Satyavani1
1Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, Department of Physics, D.N.R. College (A), Bhimavaram 534202, India.
Abstract:
Understanding the photochemical behavior of structural isomers of hydroxycoumarin (HC) having different properties of consequence in biological activities demand spectroscopic information of this class of compounds. Barring 6-hydroxycoumarin (6-HC), other isomers of HC's are well studied spectroscopically. To understand and compare the photochemical activity of 6-HC with other isomers, a detailed study of this molecule has been taken up. For this purpose, electronic, vibrational and structural properties of 6-HC have been studied using ultraviolet absorption and Infrared spectroscopy techniques. Quantum chemical calculations have been performed at DFT/B3LYP level of theory to get the optimized geometry and vibrational frequencies of normal modes to support and analyze experimental data. The detailed vibrational assignments were made on the basis of potential energy distributions. Chemical activity, molecular orbital energies, band gap and hyper-polarizability information have been computed from quantum chemical simulations. NBO analysis helped in understanding the stability of the molecule arising from hyper-conjugative interaction and charge delocalization. UV-Visible spectrum of the compound was recorded in the region 300-600 nm helped in obtaining band gap data of the compound. Molecular Electrostatic Potentials (MESP) were plotted and the respective centers of electrophilic and nucleophilic attacks were predicted with the help of Fukui functions calculations. Further, it was observed that the negative electrostatic potential regions are mainly localized over the oxygen atoms and the positive regions are localized over the benzene ring. Details of the results and analysis of experimental and theoretical spectroscopy studies are presented in this paper.
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