Exploring the Structural Changes on Excitation of a Luminescent Organic Bromine-substituted Complex by In-house Time-resolved Pump-probe Diffraction

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Journal Struct Dyn

Date 2017 Apr 7

PMID 28382318

Citations 2

Authors

Krishnayan Basuroy

Yang Chen

Sounak Sarkar

Jason Benedict

Philip Coppens

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Abstract

The structural changes accompanying the excitation of the luminescent dibromobenzene derivative, 1,4-dibromo-2,5-bis(octyloxy)benzene, have been measured by in-house monochromatic time-resolved (TR) diffraction at 90 K. Results show an increment of the very short intermolecular Br•••Br contact distance from 3.290 Å to 3.380 Å. Calculations show the Br…Br interaction to be strongly repulsive in both the Ground and Excited states but significantly relaxed by the lengthening of the contact distance on excitation. The stability of the crystals is attributed to the many weak C-H···Br and C-H···π intermolecular interactions. The study described is the first practical application of In-House Time-Resolved diffraction, made possible by the continuing increase in the brightness of X-ray sources and the sensitivity of our detectors.

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