Volume 100, Issue 5 pp. 753-757
Properties, Dynamics, and Electronic Structure of Atoms and Molecules

A computational study of a fluorescent photoinduced electron transfer (PET) sensor for cations

S. A. De Silva

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S. A. De Silva

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

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M. L. Kasner

M. L. Kasner

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

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M. A. Whitener

M. A. Whitener

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

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S. L. Pathirana

S. L. Pathirana

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

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First published: 12 August 2004
Citations: 7

Abstract

Ab initio molecular orbital theory and density functional theory with the 6-31G(d,p) basis set have been used to calculate the structural parameters of a fluorescent photoinduced electron transfer (PET) sensor for cations and its zinc complex. The optimized geometries are compared with the X-ray crystal structures of N-(9-anthracenylmethyl)–N-[(2-pyridinyl)methyl]-2-pyridinemethanamine and [N-(9-anthracenylmethyl)-N-[(2-pyridinyl-κN)methyl]-2-pyridinemethanamine-κN1, κN2]dichlorozinc. Although the X-ray studies are based on solid-phase structures and the computational studies are based on gas-phase structures, comparisons of the data show significant agreement between the two sets of geometric parameters. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2004

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