Absorption maxima study of chromophores of indigoid dyes

✍ Scribed by P. C. Chen

• Book ID: 102654446
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 533 KB
• Volume: 60
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7608
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-461x(1996)60:2<681::aid-qua6>3.0.co;2-t

✦ Synopsis

Molecular structure of 21 chromophores of indigoid dyes were studied by an ab initio MP2/6-31 + G*//HF/6-31 + G* method. Bond lengths and bond angles were affected by r-electron conjugation. The difference between molecular structures of chromophores and indigoid dyes indicated that benzene rings and five-membered rings in indigoid dyes are structurally important. Absorption maxima of chromophores were successfully calculated by the CI-singles-MP2/6-31 + G* theory. Like indigoid dyes, absorption maxima of the chromophores are affected by the positions of the donor and acceptor groups on the trimethine group. Bathochromic shifts of the absorption maxima were observed with the best donor group of -NH among -NH, -0, and -S groups. Appropriate substitution of longer-chain polymethines brought about chromophoric systems having hypsochromic shifts. From these calculations, the absorption maxima of some indigoid dyes could be explained by their chromophores qualitatively.