Publications by authors named "Bong Hyun Boo"

Intramolecular excimer formation of bis(9-fluorenyl)methane (BFM) and 9-(9'-ethylfluorenyl)-9-fluorenylmethane (EFFM), in which an ethyl group is substituted to a 9-H atom in BFM, was studied by means of steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence. Ab initio and DFT calculations enabled the prediction of three conformers as stable species of orthogonal, trans-gauche, and gauche-gauche. The theoretical and experimental results reveal that the substitution effect is also found to appreciably influence the energies, spectroscopy, and kinetics associated with the interconversion of various conformers of the diaryl compounds.

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Intramolecular excimer formation of di-9H-fluoren-9-yldimethylsilane in various solvents was studied by means of steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopies. Solvent viscosity effect on the kinetics for the monomer-excimer transition was found to be very slight, indicating that the transformation is accompanied by a slight conformational change presumably involving a transition from a near face-to-face conformer to a true sandwich conformer. The excitation energies and the corresponding oscillator strengths were derived with the time-dependent B3LYP/cc-pVTZ method.

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A reaction scheme for the rearrangement of trimethylsilyl(methyl)silylene (Me3Si-Si-Me) discovered in a pioneering work of organosilicon chemistry (Wulff et al., J Am Chem Soc 1978, 100, 6236) was studied by the MP2 and DFT methods. We report a thermal reaction scheme for the rearrangement of Me3Si-Si-Me with the structures and energies of various silicon species along the isomerization paths, that can account for the experimentally found product ratio.

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A concerted computational and experimental study has been undertaken to probe the conformational structure and excited-state dynamics of bis(9-fluorenyl)methane (BFM). We have observed that the relative intensity of the delayed excimer fluorescence of BFM is greatly enhanced in comparison with that of the normal fluorescence. This is presumably because the relative concentration of the triplet excimer is enhanced in comparison with the singlet excimer.

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Dynamics and energetics for intramolecular excimer formation of a diarylsilane, di-9H-fluoren-9-yldimethylsilane (DFYDMS) have been investigated by means of ps time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy and ab initio calculation. Multiple fluorescence decay curves were globally deconvolved to generate time-resolved fluorescence spectra and decay-associated spectra (DAS), from which species-associated spectra (SAS) were obtained. It is shown in the global analysis that there are at least three excited states: Two states are the locally excited (LE) states (lambda(max) approximately 320 nm) having lifetimes of 0.

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