Affiliation:
1. Departamento de Química Física Aplicada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
2. Institut für Organische Chemie, Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Hagenring 30, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Abstract
The solvent-dependent intensity changes in the first UV/Vis absorption band of the three polyenes DPH, DPHb, and ttbP3 dissolved in a hydrocarbon solvent with temperature allow for the conclusion that, at temperatures above 233 K, the two phenyl groups of DPH are rotated out-of-plane to yield a non-coplanar molecular structure. This leads to the conclusion that DPH becomes increasingly less coplanar as the temperature rises above 233 K. When the phenyl groups rotate out-of-plane, the polarizability decreases, and the energy of the first electronic transition increases by an extra value. Therefore, below 233 K, the correlation lines between the absorption energy of the 0–0 component of the UV/Vis absorption band and the solvent polarizability, as measured by the SP values, show bilinear behavior. The unexpected behavior shown by DPH dissolved in tetrachloro- and dichloromethane is discussed. We dedicate this research as a tribute to the very important contribution to the solvent effect made by Prof. Christian Reichardt and also to his generous and altruistic scientific help that he has always shown.
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