Probing Donor-Acceptor Interactions in meso-Substituted Zn(II) Porphyrins Using Resonance Raman Spectroscopy and Computational Chemistry

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 119, Issue 39, 2015, Pages 22379-22391

  Van Der Salm, Holly ^a   Lind, Samuel J ^a   Griffith, Matthew J ^b   Wagner, Pawel ^b   Wallace, Gordon G ^b   Officer, David L ^b   Gordon, Keith C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY; DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; PORPHYRINS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; REDOX REACTIONS; RESONANCE; SOLAR CELLS; ZINC; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; DONOR-ACCEPTOR INTERACTION; FRONTIER MOLECULAR ORBITALS; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SEMI-CONDUCTOR SURFACES; TD-DFT CALCULATIONS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84942767059     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b07129     Document Type: Article

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