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- Title
Calculation and interpretation of vibronic absorption and fluorescence spectra of the first electronic nπ* transitions of pyridine and pyrimidine.
- Authors
Ten, G.; Kadrov, D.; Berezin, M.; Baranov, V.
- Abstract
We have calculated vibronic spectra of the first electronic nπ* transitions of pyridine and pyrimidine in the isolated state using the DFT method in the Franck-Condon approximation. Vibrational spectra for the ground and excited states have been calculated in the anharmonic approximation, which allowed us to refine the assignment of normal vibrations of pyridine and pyrimidine. We have done a complete interpretation of the vibrational structure of the absorption and fluorescence spectra of pyridine and pyrimidine. It has been shown that Fermi resonances between fundamental and combination vibrations and overtones 12 and 16 b + 4, 6 a and 2 × 16 b affect the formation of the vibrational structure of electronic spectra of pyrimidine. Good agreement between calculated and experimental spectra confirms the correctness of the models of the two molecules in their ground and excited states, which makes it possible to use the models in further investigations of various properties of these molecules in electronically excited states, e.g., tautomerism of pyrimidine bases of nucleic acids.
- Subjects
FLUORESCENCE spectroscopy; PYRIDINE; PYRIMIDINES; FRANCK-Condon principle; EXCITED states; TAUTOMERISM; VIBRATIONAL transitions (Molecular physics)
- Publication
Optics & Spectroscopy, 2014, Vol 117, Issue 5, p713
- ISSN
0030-400X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S0030400X14100221