JASPER R. CLARKSON AND TIMOTHY S. ZWIER Funding: National Science Foundation Petroleum Research Fund, Type AC Purdue Research Foundation CONFORMATIONAL ISOMERIZATION BARRIERS AND DYNAMICS OF PHENOL-ETHANOLAMINE CLUSTERS.
How does solvent bind at a specific site affect the barriers to conformational isomerization of the flexible molecule? Studying Clusters Shuttling a water molecule between remote H-bonding sites on the same ‘solute’ molecule The effect of H-bonded water on an intramolecular isomerization barrier Measuring the barrier to moving from one lone pair to the other in an OH--OH H-bond TI11 TODAY, 4:36 PM 1015 McPHERSON JCP 122, (2005)
Pulsed valve To Roots pump PMT Carrier gas y x z Lens Mirror Expansion CCD SPEX Monochromator 0.75 m grating S0S0 S1S1 Zero-point Level C A B IV. UV Probe III. Collisional Cooling II. UV Dump I. UV Pump Excited Vibrational Level B*B* Expt’l protocol: 1.Cool 2.Pump 3.Dump 4.Re-cool 5.Probe A C A A B C C A B B B B B B B B C A* B* C C B A* A A A A C C A A C C B B SEP excites single conformation C A C A A B C C A B B B B B B B B C A* B* C C B A* A A A A C C A A C C B B C Experimental Setup
Macleod and Simons PCCP, 2003, 5, Complex A 0.00 kcal/mol Complex B 0.51 kcal/mol Complex C 0.73 kcal/mol Phenol-(2-aminoethanol) 1
Complex BComplex C ~200 cm -1 H O R.. C ↔ B isomerization pathway: The barrier between lone pairs on the acceptor oxygen
Complex C origin Complex B originComplex A origin 2 nd order cluster (D) LIF Phenol-(2-Aminoethanol) 1 Clusters Wavenumbers(cm -1 ) Intensity (arb. units)
Energy above ZPL (cm -1 ) next slide Gains = Hz fluorescence Dips = SEP SEP C SEP-PT C-->B SEP-PT C-->C Hz Holeburning Intensity (arb. units) Overview SEP-PT Spectra Phenol-(2-Aminoethanol) 1 C
intensity (arbitrary units) ? Upper bound 206 cm -1 Lower bound 136cm Energy above ZPL (cm -1 ) SEP C SEP-PT C-->B SEP-PT C-->C Hz Holeburning SEP-PT Spectra Phenol-(2-Aminoethanol) 1 C B Intensity (arb. units)
SEP-PT Spectra Phenol-(2-Aminoethanol) 1 B C Intensity (arb. units) Energy above ZPL (cm -1 ) SEP-PT B C Upper Bound 520 cm cm -1 Lower Bound 140 cm -1 SEP-PT B B
SEP-PT Spectra Phenol-(2-Aminoethanol) 1 C A SEP C SEP-PT C A SEP-PT C B Intensity (arb. units) Energy above ZPL (cm -1 ) 1700
Why can’t we pump into and out of A? cm -1 Bounds on the barriers to isomerization Computed Barriers A cm -1 ?? B C 320 cm cm cm cm cm cm -1 A B C A B C
Black – DF Complex A Red – DF tuned out of gas pulse Short S 1 lifetime Broad, red-shifted fluorescence Population transfer out of A: Competition with H-atom transfer in the S1 state?
Conclusions: Measuring the barrier to moving from one lone pair to the other in an OH…OH H-bond: ~200 cm -1 Measuring the relative energies between Complex C and B Locating minimum energy pathways Observing possible H-atom transfer
B3LYP/6-31+G* full optimizations of minima and optimization of TS using QST3 G03. TS verified with imaginary frequency. 707 cm -1 IPA(A)-gauche1 IPA(B)-gauche1 425 cm -1 IPA(A)-gauche1 IPA(A)-gauche2 238 cm -1 IPA(A)-gauche1 IPA(A)-anti Intramolecular isomerization: Higher barrier Solvent isomerization: Lower barrier, energy flow from indole through H-bonds to ethanol torsion ‘Solute’ isomerization in competition with ‘solvent’ isomerization: IPA-ethanol
Acknowledgements Collaborators: Professor Ken Jordan Professor David Wales Dr. Dave Evans Funding: National Science Foundation Petroleum Research Foundation Purdue Research Foundation Professor Tim Zwier Zwier Group Esteban Baquero Alvin Shubert Jaime Stearns Talitha Selby Tracy LeGreve Nathan Pillsbury Bill James Josh Newby