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Physical Society of Japan, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Suppl.A(81), p. SA024

DOI: 10.1143/jpsjs.81sa.sa024

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Solvent Effect on the Fluorescence Spectra of Coumarin 120 in Water: A Combined Quantum Mechanical and Molecular Mechanical Study

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Abstract

The solvent effect on the steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectra of coumarin 120 in water was studied utilizing a molecular dynamics simulation with combined quantum mechani-cal/molecular mechanical method. The constructed steady-state fluorescence spectra reproduced the Stokes shift of the experimental data. The solvent effects on the spectra were examined by construct-ing three different spectra: spectra using the entire system, spectra including water molecules only in the first solvent shell, and spectra excluding all water molecules. We found that the variation in C-C bond length makes the largest contribution to the solvent shift in the fluorescence spectrum, which indicates the importance of the electronic structure variation.