A series of silicon (VI) porphyrins compounds with varying meso substitutions Si (TPP)Cl2 (where X=5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphyrin), Si (TFP)Cl2 (X=5,10,15,20-tetrafluorenylporphyrin), Si (TQP)Cl2(X=5‚10‚15‚20-tetra (2,3,6,7-tetrahydro-1H,5H-benzo [ij] puinolizine) porphyrin),Si (TMP)Cl2(X=5,10,15,20-tetra (N,N-dimethylphenyl) porphyrin) have been investigated using density functional theory (DFT) to assess the influence of ruffled conformation on the electronic structures, frontier molecular orbital, charge carrier transport, electronic spectra. The electronic structures reveal that all these Si porphyrins display visible ruffling distortion, as the dihedral angle Cα2-N2-N4-Cα4 are ca. 30 ̊. And calculations confirm that ruffed distortion result in higher LUMO energies, lower EA values than corresponding planed Zn porphyrins, especial for similar λhole and λelectron values. These calculations suggest that the ruffled conformation bring about better charge injection and transport, which would broaden the application of distorted porphyrin in several different fields.
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