Origins of the diffuse shared proton vibrational signatures in proton-coupled electron transfer model dyad complexes
Journal of Chemical Physics, ISSN: 1089-7690, Vol: 157, Issue: 15, Page: 154308
2022
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Article Description
Phenol-benzimidazole and phenol-pyridine dyad complexes have served as popular model systems for the study of proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) kinetics in solution-phase experiments. Interpretation of measured PCET rates in terms of key structural parameters, such as the H-bond donor-acceptor distance, however, remains challenging. Herein, we report vibrational spectra in the electronic ground state for a series of phenol-benzimidazole and phenol-pyridine complexes isolated and cryogenically cooled in an ion trap. The four models studied each display highly red-shifted and broadened OH stretching transitions that arise from strong H-bonding interactions between the phenol OH group and the basic N site on benzimidazole/pyridine rings. The OH stretch transition in each model displays relatively strong absorption onsets near 2500 cm-1 with broad shoulders that extend asymmetrically to higher frequencies over hundreds of wavenumbers. In contrast, the deuterated isotopologues yield much weaker OD stretch transitions that appear symmetrically broadened. The spectral breadth and shape of the OD stretch transitions are ascribed to variations in OD stretch frequencies that arise from zero-point distributions in the proton donor-acceptor low-frequency soft mode vibration. The asymmetric structure of the OH stretch transitions is attributed to a set of combination bands between the OH stretch and a series of low-frequency H-bond soft modes. The spectra and modeling highlight the importance of OH stretch-soft mode couplings, which are thought to play important roles in PCET and proton transfer dynamics.
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