Computational Exploration of Spectroscopic and Hydrogen Bonding Analysis of Direct Orange 26 Dye in Combination with Experimental and TD-DFT Calculations.

Abstract

The importance of this study stems from, it concentrates on new approach applying both practical and theoretical aspects to study structure of Direct orange dye 26 (DO-26) as an important dye widely used for dyeing of cotton or viscose for red orange direct printing. It also can be used for silk, wool, polyvinyl alcohol, polyamide fiber fabric and pulp dyeing. It proficiently compare practical with theoretical results of structural identification of the given important dye, via carful inspection of various phenomena detected in its two symmetrical arms around urea center. Direct orange dye 26 (DO-26) structure has been studied applying both practical spectroscopic and theoretical investigations. DFT-B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) calculations are performed to investigate its structure, and the electronic vibrational properties. Correlation is found between experimental and calculated data. An intra-molecular hydrogen bonding interaction had been detected and characterized in dye skeleton using Atoms-in-molecule analysis employment. The hydrogen bonding present in the dye structure affecting its vibrational properties had been discussed. Natural population analysis like HOMO and LUMO and high quality molecular electrostatic potential plots along with various electronics had been presented at the same level of theory. Chemical reactivity descriptors from conceptual density functional theory point of view, structure activity relationship descriptor were obtained. The experimental UV/Visible and FT-IR spectral data of the dye DO-26 (D1) had been presented. These data had been supported by TD-DFT calculations to simulate the experimental spectra with computing the natural transition orbitals (NTO) and the orbital composition. The variation of charge transfer length (Δr) and variation in its dipole moment with respect to ground state (ΔmCT) had been computed in order to study the charge redistribution due to the excitations. Actually there is a problem that, degradation of this dye in wastewater by different techniques leads to various unknown fragments but on using theoretical possibilities it can be expected what happened in practical work.