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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Photochem Photobiol Sci. 2019 Feb 28;18(9):2180–2190. doi: 10.1039/c9pp00006b

Table 2.

1P and 2P absorption properties of TBT, TPT and TTzT from TD-CAM-B3LYP/6-31G* calculations in vacuo.

Excited
state
Energy/eV σ(2) / GM a fb Wavefunction
composition
tt-TBT
S2 4.40 528 0.04 (H-1→L)
tt-TPT
S4 4.30 851 0.07 (H-1→L)
tt-TTzT
S2 4.00 2820 0.50 (H→L+1)
S3 4.04 5.3×105 0.05 (H-1→L)
a

2P absorption cross-section for linearly polarized light

b

1P oscillator strength.