title: Density functional theory study of vibronic structure of the first absorption Qx band in free-base porphin.
abstract: Harmonic vibrational frequencies and vibronic intensities in the first S(0)-->S(1) (pipi( *)) absorption band of free-base porphin (H(2) P) are investigated by hybrid density functional theory (DFT) with the standard B3LYP functional. The S(0)-S(1) transition probability is calculated using time-dependent DFT with account of Franck-Condon (FC) and Herzberg-Teller (HT) contributions to the electric-dipole transition moments including displacements along all 108 vibrational modes. Two weak wide bands observed in the gas phase absorption spectra of the H(2) P molecule at 626 and 576 nm are interpreted as the 0-0 band of the X(1) A(g)-->1B(3u) transition and the 0-1 band with largest contributions from the nu(10)(a(g))=1610 cm(-1) and nu(19)(b(1g))=1600 cm(-1) modes, respectively, in agreement with previous tentative assignments. Both bands are induced by the HT mechanism, while the FC contributions are negligible. A number of fine structure bands, including combination of two vibrational quanta, are obtained and compared with available spectra from supersonic jet and Shpolskij matrices. Both absorption and fluorescence spectra are interpreted on ground of the linear coupling model and a good fulfillment of the mirror-symmetry rule.
authors.affiliation: Theoretical Chemistry, Royal Institute of Technology, AlbaNova, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Minaev
authors.forename: Yan-Hua
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Chuan-Kui
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Agren
mesh_terms: D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002627:Chemistry, Physical; D005453:Fluorescence; D008027:Light; D008163:Luminescent Measurements; D008433:Mathematics; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011166:Porphyrins / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry*; D011789:Quantum Theory; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; D013057:Spectrum Analysis; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014732:Vibration
chemical_list: D011166:Porphyrins; C107018:porphine