Yang Tianxiao, Goddard John D
Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
J Phys Chem A. 2007 May 24;111(20):4489-97. doi: 10.1021/jp068542b. Epub 2007 Apr 24.
The complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) method and multiconfigurational second-order perturbation theory (CASPT2) have been used to study the structures and spectra of oxyluciferins (OxyLH2). The ground and lowest-lying singlet excited states geometries have been optimized using CASSCF. CASPT2 has been used to predict relaxed emission energies. The focus is on the lowest-lying singlet excited states of the anionic keto and enol forms of OxyLH2(-1) at the optimized excited-state geometries. The planar keto and enol forms of OxyLH2(-1) are minima on both the S0 and the S1 potential energy surfaces. The twisted keto and enol forms of OxyLH2(-1) are transition states on the S0 and S1 potential energy surfaces. The S1 --> S0 fluorescence emission energies are in the range of 54.2-58.4 kcal/mol for the anionic planar keto forms of OxyLH2, and in the range of 55.7-63.2 kcal/mol for the anionic enol forms of OxyLH2. S0 and S1 potential energy surfaces and thus are not implicated in the emission spectra in the gas phase.
