This paper reports novel pyrazine-acenes containing electron-deficient heteroaromatic π-extenders, such as pyridine, pyrazine, and benzothiadiazole, directly fused with pyrazine. Electronic properties of these systems were characterized by UV-Vis, fluorescence spectroscopy, and cyclic voltammetry. Computational electronic property evaluation of all experimentally synthesized compounds is provid...

BACKGROUND Better understanding of the transannular influence of a substituent on the redox-potentials of bicyclo[2.2.2]octane-derived quinones will help in the design of new compounds with controlled biological activity. However, attempts to directly relate the reduction potentials of substituted triptycene-quinones to the electronic effects of substituents are often unsuccessful. RESULTS Fi...

Differences between exchange methods in exchange-only Kohn-Sham theory are highlighted by calculations of diatomic molecule total energies, uncoupled isotropic NMR shieldings, and HOMO-LUMO eigenvalue differences. Optimised effective potential (OEP) and Wu-Yang (WY) results are very similar. Localised Hartree-Fock (LHF) and Krieger-Li-Iafrate (KLI) results are close to one another, but are diff...

We describe the synthesis, characterization and photophysical properties of the dyads Zn2DEP·TNF (1) and Zn2DEP·2Py-BDP (2) and triad Zn2DEP·2Py-BDP·TNF (3), which enable us to investigate the changes in the spectroscopic properties upon the axial coordination of pyridine substituted bodipy (Py-BDP) to Zn2DEP in the dyads and the further encapsulation of TNF in the triad. Zn2DEP·TNF (1) is stru...

Anion photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory were employed to study aluminum hydride clusters, AlnHm (4 e n e 8, 0 e m e 10). Photoelectron spectra revealed that Al4H4, Al4H6, and a family of species with general formula AlnHn+2 (5 e n e 8) have small adiabatic electron affinities and large HOMO-LUMO gaps (ranging from 0.5 to 1.9 eV) relative to those of their stoichiometric n...

Fourier-Transform infrared and Fourier-Transform Raman spectra of 2-methoxy-4nitroaniline(2M4NA) was recorded in the region 4000 – 400 cm and 3500 – 100 cm .Quantum chemical calculations of energies, geometrical structure and vibrational wavenumbers of 2M4NA were carried out by ab initio HF/6-311G(d,p) and DFT (B3LYP/6-311G(d,p) and B3PW91/6-311G(d,p)) levels of theory with complete relaxation ...

Trioxatriangulenium ion (TOTA(+)) is a flat, somewhat hydrophobic compound that has a low-energy unoccupied molecular orbital. It binds to duplex DNA by intercalation with a preference for G-C base pairs. Irradiation of intercalated TOTA(+) causes charge (radical cation) injection that results in strand cleavage (after piperidine treatment) primarily at GG steps. The X-ray crystal structure of ...

A recent improvement in the design of dyesensitized solar cells has been the combination of lightabsorbing, electron-donating, and electron-withdrawing groups within the same sensitizer molecule. This dye architecture has proven to increase the energy conversion efficiency of the cells, leading to record efficiency values. Here we investigate a zinc(II)-porphyrin-based dye with triphenylamine d...

Density functional theory computations (B3LYP) have been used to explore the chemistry of titanium-aromatic carbon "edge complexes" with 1,3-metal-carbon (1,3-MC) bonding between Ti and planar tetracoordinate Cβ . The titanium-coordinated, end-capping chlorides are replaced with OH or SH groups to afford two series of difunctional monomers that can undergo condensation to form oxide- and sulfid...

Motivated by the recent experiments by Wang et al. (Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 6154-6157), in which the alkylamine-capped magic-size (CdSe)13 has been isolated for the first time, we report on the computational modeling of the putative low-lying isomers of (CdSe)13, both bare and ligand-protected. According to Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations, the core@cage configuration Se@Cd...