Exploring the excited state behavior for 2-(phenyl)imidazo[4,5-c]pyridine in methanol solvent

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In this present work, we theoretically investigate the excited state mechanism for the 2-(phenyl)imidazo[4,5-c]pyridine (PIP-C) molecule combined with methanol (MeOH) solvent molecules. Three MeOH molecules should be connected with PIP-C forming stable PIP-C-MeOH complex in the S0 state. Upon the photo-excitation, the hydrogen bonded wires are strengthened in the S1 state. Particularly the deprotonation process of PIP-C facilitates the excited state intermolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) process. In our work, we do verify that the ESIPT reaction should occur due to the low potential energy barrier 8.785 kcal/mol in the S1 state. While the intersection of potential energy curves of S0 and S1 states result in the nonradiation transition from S1 to S0 state, which successfully explain why the emission peak of the proton-transfer PIP-C-MeOH-PT form could not be reported in previous experiment. As a whole, this work not only put forward a new excited state mechanism for PIP-C system, but also compensates for the defects about mechanism in previous experiment.

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Yang, D., Jia, M., Wu, J., & Song, X. (2017). Exploring the excited state behavior for 2-(phenyl)imidazo[4,5-c]pyridine in methanol solvent. Scientific Reports, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12146-4

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