Victoria P. Barber and Josh J. Newby TK14 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA Spectroscopic characterization of a natural product: anethole
Motivation Natural products Low amplitude motions Complete the spectroscopy
Early work (Grassian et al.) Syn Anti R2PI Grassian et al. J. Phys. Chem. 1989,
Cools gas phase molecules to effective temperatures of a few degrees Kelvin Boltzmann distribution of conformations Collisional cooling Jet-cooled spectroscopy Buffer gas A A A B B BB B B A A B A AA B B B B B A A B B A A A B B B B B A A B B Isolated, cold molecules High Pressure (1 bar)Low Pressure (10 -7 bar)
Excited Fluorescence spectroscopy Ground 1.LIF Tune laser, measure total fluorescence Excited state vibrations 2.SVLF Park laser, disperse fluoresce Ground state vibrations
LIF spectrum of anethole
SynAnti Bands separated by 70 cm -1
Origin SVLF spectra Two conformers confirmed SVLF Anti Syn
Computation AntiSyn (wavenumbers) B3LYP/ G(d,p) Grassian assignments confirmed
Detect total fluorescence Probe (20 Hz) Conformer A(S 0, ZPL) HB (10 Hz) UVHB UV Hole-burn laser fixed UV probe laser tuned UVHB Hole-burning of anethole (Purdue) A (S 1 ) Syn Anti
(a)Warm conditions (b) Cold Conditions 10 psi 30 psi v = 0 v = 1 v = 0 v = 1 v = 2 v = 3 S1S1 S0S0 Pressure study (a) (b)
Origin SVLF spectra (Purdue) Anti Syn
Syn SVLF (in plane) Simple false origin SVLF of in plane IVR
Syn SVLF (out of plane) Significant Duschinsky mixing of out of plane modes
Syn Hot bands SVLF Identical absolute frequency implies same upper state
Anti SVLF
FCF of ν 39 Conformations differ in displacement
MOs of anethole MeO orientation tweaks MO geometry
Syn/Anti Isomerization
Isomerization
(a)Warm conditions (b) Cold Conditions 10 psi 30 psi v = 0 v = 1 v = 0 v = 1 v = 2 v = 3 S1S1 S0S0 Pressure study (a) (b)
SVLF spectra of Syn origin and Syn+58 Similar structure New low frequency bands Implies VDW cluster Syn 0 0 Syn +58
SVLF spectra of Syn origin and Anti+51 Similar structure New low frequency bands Implies VDW cluster Anti 0 0 Anti +51
LIF of water clusters ‘Neat’ sample has water clusters! Neat +H 2 O
Spontaneous Emulsion (Ouzo Effect) Ouzo Absinthe
Styrene : water Origin shift n=1 => 21.5 cm -1 n=2 => 46.5 cm -1 anisole : water Origin shift n=1 => 118 cm -1 n=2 => 107 cm -1 Water cluster comparison Reimann et al. J. Chem. Phys. 117(19) Mahmoud et al. Chem. Phys. Lett
LAM Comparison Syn Anti
Two conformations (syn/anti) Similar with key differences (ν 63, ν 39 ) Styrene like vibrational characteristics OMe is sneaks in Readily clusters with water Trimers form without much effort? Key points
Swarthmore Prof. Thomas A. Stephenson Victoria P. Barber Madeleine Amodio Purdue Prof. Timothy S. Zwier Deepali N. Mehta-Hurt Acknowledgements