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  • Title: Electronic structures of azulene-fused porphyrins as seen by magnetic circular dichroism and TD-DFT calculations.
    Author: Nakai K, Kurotobi K, Osuka A, Uchiyama M, Kobayashi N.
    Journal: J Inorg Biochem; 2008 Mar; 102(3):466-71. PubMed ID: 18180040.
    Abstract:
    A combination of magnetic circular dichroism (MCD), electronic absorption spectroscopy and time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations has been used to investigate the electronic structure of azulene-fused pi-expanded porphyrins based primarily on the spectral properties of absorption bands in the near infrared region. From MCD experiments, it was suggested that in the case of a mono-azulene-fused porphyrin DeltaHOMO approximately equal DeltaLUMO (where DeltaHOMO is the magnitude of the energy gap between the HOMO and HOMO-1 and DeltaLUMO is the magnitude of the energy gap between the LUMO and LUMO+1), while in the case of an oppositely-di-azulene-fused porphyrin, DeltaHOMO<DeltaLUMO. Since Faraday A terms are observed for both the Soret and Q bands in the MCD spectrum of tetra-azulene-fused porphyrin the corresponding excited states are clearly accidentally degenerate despite the C(2) molecular symmetry. Transition dipole moment analysis clearly demonstrates that the electronic absorption spectrum of tetra-azulene-fused porphyrin has out-of-plane electronic transitions slightly to the blue of the main Q and Soret bands. Comparison with distorted porphyrins and phthalocyanines strongly suggests that these out-of-plane transitions appear as intense Gaussian-shaped Faraday B terms in the MCD spectra.
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