In order to improve the performance of theoretical UV-Vis spectra predictions, a theoretical and experimental study of solvatochromic properties of ten azo pyridone dyes has been performed. For quantitative estimation of intermolecular solvent-solute interactions, a concept of the linear solvation energy relationships has been applied using Kamlet-Taft and Catalán models. Theoretical UV-Vis spectra for all dyes have been calculated using four TD-DFT methods in nine different solvents with the aim to define the most reliable model. Finally, new polylinear equations for more accurate theoretical prediction of UV-Vis maxima are developed using empirical Kamlet-Taft and Catalán solvent parameters as additive corrections for specific and nonspecific solvent-solute interactions.
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J Am Chem Soc
January 2025
Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Martensstraße 7, 91058 Erlangen, Germany.
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Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
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January 2025
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Max von Laue-Straße 7, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY.
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December 2024
Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Environmental Biology, University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Akademicka 13, 20-950, Lublin, Poland.
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December 2024
PSI Center for Life Sciences, Villigen PSI, Switzerland.
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