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DFT Study of Alkynyl Porphyrin Dimers and Brominated Tetraphenyl Porphyrins
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 September 2012
Abstract
Geometry optimizations and electronic structure calculations using Density Functional Theory (DFT) are reported for tetra-acetylene porphyrins (TAP), their dimers, and octabromotetraphenyl porphyrins (OBP). The acetylene group contributes to the π-electron conjugation along the porphyrin ring for the HOMO and LUMO, and reduces significantly the HOMO-LUMO gap. The gap is further reduced in dimers. The planar geometry of the TAP dimer has a lower energy than the non-planar one. The geometry of H2OBP is found to be non-planar, and the distortion of porphyrin ring is shown to be closely related to the HOMO-LUMO gap.
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