Abstract
The photophysics of chromophores is strongly influenced by their environment. Solvation, charge state, and adduct formation significantly affect ground and excited state energetics and dynamics. The present study reports on fluorescence emission of rhodamine B cations (RhBH+) and derivatives in the gas phase. Substitution of the acidic proton of RhBH+ by alkali metal cations, M+, ranging from lithium to cesium leads to significant and systematic blue shifts of the emission. The gas-phase structures and singlet transition energies of RhBH+ and RhBM+, M = Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs, were investigated using Hartree-Fock theory, density functional methods, second-order Møller-Plesset perturbation theory, and the second-order approximate coupled-cluster model CC2. Comparison of experimental and theoretical results highlights the need for improved quantum chemical methods, while the hypsochromic shift observed upon substitution appears best explained by the Stark effect due to the inhomogeneous electric field generated by the alkali ions.
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