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Gish MK, Karunasena CD, Carr JM, Kopcha WP, Greenaway AL, Mohapatra AA, Zhang J, Basu A, Brosius V, Pratik SM, Bredas JL, Coropceanu V, Barlow S, Marder SR, Ferguson AJ, Reid OG. The Excited-State Lifetime of Poly(NDI2OD-T2) Is Intrinsically Short. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2024; 128:6392-6400. [PMID: 38655059 PMCID: PMC11033933 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.4c00653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2024] [Revised: 03/08/2024] [Accepted: 03/15/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
Abstract
Conjugated polymers composed of alternating electron donor and acceptor segments have come to dominate the materials being considered for organic photoelectrodes and solar cells, in large part because of their favorable near-infrared absorption. The prototypical electron-transporting push-pull polymer poly(NDI2OD-T2) (N2200) is one such material. While reasonably efficient organic solar cells can be fabricated with N2200 as the acceptor, it generally fails to contribute as much photocurrent from its absorption bands as the donor with which it is paired. Moreover, transient absorption studies have shown N2200 to have a consistently short excited-state lifetime (∼100 ps) that is dominated by a ground-state recovery. In this paper, we investigate whether these characteristics are intrinsic to the backbone structure of this polymer or if these are extrinsic effects from ubiquitous solution-phase and thin-film aggregates. We compare the solution-phase photophysics of N2200 with those of a pair of model compounds composed of alternating bithiophene (T2) donor and naphthalene diimide (NDI) acceptor units, NDI-T2-NDI and T2-NDI-T2, in a dilute solution. We find that the model compounds have even faster ground-state recovery dynamics (τ = 45, 27 ps) than the polymer (τ = 133 ps), despite remaining molecularly isolated in solution. In these molecules, as in the case of the N2200 polymer, the lowest excited state has a T2 to NDI charge-transfer (CT) character. Electronic-structure calculations indicate that the short lifetime of this state is due to fast nonradiative decay to the ground state (GS) promoted by strong CT-GS electronic coupling and strong electron-vibrational coupling with high-frequency (quantum) normal modes.
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- Melissa K. Gish
- Materials,
Chemical, and Computational Science Directorate, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University
of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0041, United States
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- Renewable
and Sustainable Energy Institute, University
of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Materials,
Chemical, and Computational Science Directorate, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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- Materials,
Chemical, and Computational Science Directorate, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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- Renewable
and Sustainable Energy Institute, University
of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Renewable
and Sustainable Energy Institute, University
of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Renewable
and Sustainable Energy Institute, University
of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Renewable
and Sustainable Energy Institute, University
of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University
of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0041, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University
of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0041, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University
of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0041, United States
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- Materials,
Chemical, and Computational Science Directorate, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
- Renewable
and Sustainable Energy Institute, University
of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Materials,
Chemical, and Computational Science Directorate, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
- Renewable
and Sustainable Energy Institute, University
of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- Department
of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Materials,
Chemical, and Computational Science Directorate, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
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- Materials,
Chemical, and Computational Science Directorate, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States
- Renewable
and Sustainable Energy Institute, University
of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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Coppola F, Cimino P, Petrone A, Rega N. Evidence of Excited-State Vibrational Mode Governing the Photorelaxation of a Charge-Transfer Complex. J Phys Chem A 2024; 128:1620-1633. [PMID: 38381887 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c08366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
Abstract
Modern, nonlinear, time-resolved spectroscopic techniques have opened new doors for investigating the intriguing but complex world of photoinduced ultrafast out-of-equilibrium phenomena and charge dynamics. The interaction between light and matter introduces an additional dimension, where the complex interplay between electronic and vibrational dynamics needs the most advanced theoretical-computational protocols to be fully understood on the molecular scale. In this study, we showcase the capabilities of ab initio molecular dynamics simulation integrated with a multiresolution wavelet protocol to carefully investigate the excited-state relaxation dynamics in a noncovalent complex involving tetramethylbenzene (TMB) and tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ) undergoing charge transfer (CT) upon photoexcitation. Our protocol provides an accurate description that facilitates a direct comparison between transient vibrational analysis and time-resolved spectroscopic signals. This molecular level perspective enhances our understanding of photorelaxation processes confined in the adiabatic regime and offers an improved interpretation of vibrational spectra. Furthermore, it enables the quantification of anharmonic vibrational couplings between high- and low-frequency modes, specifically the TCNQ "rocking" and "bending" modes. Additionally, it identifies the primary vibrational mode that governs the adiabaticity between the ground state and the CT state. This comprehensive understanding of photorelaxation processes holds significant importance in the rational design and precise control of more efficient photovoltaic and sensor devices.
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- Federico Coppola
- Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Largo San Marcellino 10, I-80138 Napoli, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, 80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Largo San Marcellino 10, I-80138 Napoli, Italy
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, 80126 Napoli, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale Di Fisica Nucleare, sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo ed. 6, 80126 Napoli, Italia
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- Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Largo San Marcellino 10, I-80138 Napoli, Italy
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, 80126 Napoli, Italy
- Istituto Nazionale Di Fisica Nucleare, sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo ed. 6, 80126 Napoli, Italia
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Qiu T, Climent C, Subtonik JE. A Practical Approach to Wave Function Propagation, Hopping Probabilities, and Time Steps in Surface Hopping Calculations. J Chem Theory Comput 2023; 19:2744-2757. [PMID: 37130302 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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We compare several established approaches for propagating wave functions and calculating hopping probabilities within the fewest switches surface hopping (FSSH) algorithm for difficult cases with many electronic states and many trivial crossings. If only a single time step (Δtc) is employed, we find that no published approach can accurately capture the dynamics correctly unless Δtc → 0 (which is not computationally feasible). If multiple time steps are employed, for a fixed classical time step (Δtc), a robust scheme can be found for dynamically choosing quantum time steps (δtq1 and δtq2) and calculating hopping probabilities so that one can systematically reduce all errors and achieve maximally efficient accuracy; scattering calculations confirm that one can choose a fairly large classical time step. The robust scheme presented here uses both the "local diabatic" and adiabatic interpolation and thus borrows elements from both the Granucci/Persico and Meek/Levine algorithms. Our findings should be broadly applicable in the future.
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- Tian Qiu
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
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Perrella F, Li X, Petrone A, Rega N. Nature of the Ultrafast Interligands Electron Transfers in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. JACS AU 2023; 3:70-79. [PMID: 36711100 PMCID: PMC9875239 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.2c00556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2022] [Revised: 11/22/2022] [Accepted: 11/23/2022] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Charge-transfer dynamics and interligand electron transfer (ILET) phenomena play a pivotal role in dye-sensitizers, mostly represented by the Ru-based polypyridyl complexes, for TiO2 and ZnO-based solar cells. Starting from metal-to-ligand charge-transfer (MLCT) excited states, charge dynamics and ILET can influence the overall device efficiency. In this letter, we focus on N34- dye ( [Ru(dcbpy)2(NCS)2]4-, dcbpy = 4,4'-dicarboxy-2,2'-bipyridine) to provide a first direct observation with high time resolution (<20 fs) of the ultrafast electron exchange between bpy-like ligands. ILET is observed in water solution after photoexcitation in the ∼400 nm MLCT band, and assessment of its ultrafast time-scale is here given through a real-time electronic dynamics simulation on the basis of state-of-the-art electronic structure methods. Indirect effects of water at finite temperature are also disentangled by investigating the system in a symmetric gas-phase structure. As main result, remarkably, the ILET mechanism appears to be based upon a purely electronic evolution among the dense, experimentally accessible, MLCT excited states manifold at ∼400 nm, which rules out nuclear-electronic couplings and proves further the importance of the dense electronic manifold in improving the efficiency of dye sensitizers in solar cell devices.
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- Fulvio Perrella
- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli
Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, via Cintia 21, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli
Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, via Cintia 21, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
- Scuola
Superiore Meridionale, Largo San Marcellino 10, I-80138 Napoli, Italy
- Istituto
Nazionale Di Fisica Nucleare, sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo ed.
6, via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Department
of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli
Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, via Cintia 21, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
- Scuola
Superiore Meridionale, Largo San Marcellino 10, I-80138 Napoli, Italy
- Istituto
Nazionale Di Fisica Nucleare, sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo ed.
6, via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy
- CRIB,
Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sui Biomateriali, Piazzale Tecchio 80, I-80125 Napoli, Italy
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Chemiluminescence (CL) utilizing chemiexcitation for energy transformation is one of the most highly sensitive and useful analytical techniques. The chemiexcitation is a chemical process of a ground-state reactant producing an excited-state product, in which a nonadiabatic event is facilitated by conical intersections (CIs), the specific molecular geometries where electronic states are degenerated. Cyclic peroxides, especially 1,2-dioxetane/dioxetanone derivatives, are the iconic chemiluminescent substances. In this Perspective, we concentrated on the CIs in the CL of cyclic peroxides. We first present a computational overview on the role of CIs between the ground (S0) state and the lowest singlet excited (S1) state in the thermolysis of cyclic peroxides. Subsequently, we discuss the role of the S0/S1 CI in the CL efficiency and point out misunderstandings in some theoretical studies on the singlet chemiexcitations of cyclic peroxides. Finally, we address the challenges and future prospects in theoretically calculating S0/S1 CIs and simulating the dynamics and chemiexcitation efficiency in the CL of cyclic peroxides.
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- Ling Yue
- Key Laboratory for Non-equilibrium Synthesis and Modulation of Condensed Matter, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi710049, China
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- Center for Advanced Materials Research, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai519087, China
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing100875, China
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Mukherjee S, Pinheiro M, Demoulin B, Barbatti M. Simulations of molecular photodynamics in long timescales. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2022; 380:20200382. [PMID: 35341303 PMCID: PMC8958277 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2020.0382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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Nonadiabatic dynamics simulations in the long timescale (much longer than 10 ps) are the next challenge in computational photochemistry. This paper delimits the scope of what we expect from methods to run such simulations: they should work in full nuclear dimensionality, be general enough to tackle any type of molecule and not require unrealistic computational resources. We examine the main methodological challenges we should venture to advance the field, including the computational costs of the electronic structure calculations, stability of the integration methods, accuracy of the nonadiabatic dynamics algorithms and software optimization. Based on simulations designed to shed light on each of these issues, we show how machine learning may be a crucial element for long time-scale dynamics, either as a surrogate for electronic structure calculations or aiding the parameterization of model Hamiltonians. We show that conventional methods for integrating classical equations should be adequate to extended simulations up to 1 ns and that surface hopping agrees semiquantitatively with wave packet propagation in the weak-coupling regime. We also describe our optimization of the Newton-X program to reduce computational overheads in data processing and storage. This article is part of the theme issue 'Chemistry without the Born-Oppenheimer approximation'.
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- Aix Marseille University, CNRS, ICR, Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille University, CNRS, ICR, Marseille, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, 75231 Paris, France
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Akimov AV. Extending the Time Scales of Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics via Machine Learning in the Time Domain. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:12119-12128. [PMID: 34913701 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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A novel methodology for direct modeling of long-time scale nonadiabatic dynamics in extended nanoscale and solid-state systems is developed. The presented approach enables forecasting the vibronic Hamiltonians as a direct function of time via machine-learning models trained directly in the time domain. The use of periodic and aperiodic functions that transform time into effective input modes of the artificial neural network is demonstrated to be essential for such an approach to work for both abstract and atomistic models. The best strategies and possible limitations pertaining to the new methodology are explored and discussed. An exemplary direct simulation of unprecedentedly long 20 picosecond trajectories is conducted for a divacancy-containing monolayer black phosphorus system, and the importance of conducting such extended simulations is demonstrated. New insights into the excited states photophysics in this system are presented, including the role of decoherence and model definition.
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- Alexey V Akimov
- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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Zhu R, Chen X, Shu N, Shang Y, Wang Y, Yang P, Tang Y, Wang F, Xu J. Computational Study of Photochemical Relaxation Pathways of Platinum(II) Complexes. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:10144-10154. [PMID: 34792355 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c07017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A series of functional platinum(II) complexes (Pt1-Pt3), which present high activity in four-photon absorption, in vivo imaging, and precise cancer therapy, as previously reported by the experimental work of Zhang et al. (Inorg. Chem. 2021, 60, 2362-2371), are computationally investigated in the article. We find that after the complex goes through four-photon absorption to the S1 state, it undergoes intersystem crossing to the T2 state and eventually reaches the T1 state through internal conversion. On the T1 state, both radiative and nonradiative decay to S0 exit. The radiative decay forms the basis for the phosphorescence imaging in tissues as reported in the original paper. In addition, the nonradiative decay can simultaneously generate cytotoxic singlet oxygen by the excited energy transfer process, also known as triplet oxygen's quenching of triplet states. We conclude that the phosphorescence property as well as the photosensitizer character jointly bring high activity of in vivo imaging and photodynamic therapy to these complexes.
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- Rongji Zhu
- Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, 210023 Jiangsu, China
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- College of Science, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, 210037 Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Numerical Simulation of Large Scale Complex System (NSLSCS) and School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023 Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Numerical Simulation of Large Scale Complex System (NSLSCS) and School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023 Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Technology, Advances Catalysis and Green Manufacturing Collaborative Innovation Center, Changzhou University, 213164 Changzhou, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Numerical Simulation of Large Scale Complex System (NSLSCS) and School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023 Jiangsu, China
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Advanced Catalytic Materials and Technology, Advances Catalysis and Green Manufacturing Collaborative Innovation Center, Changzhou University, 213164 Changzhou, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York 13214, United States
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- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Numerical Simulation of Large Scale Complex System (NSLSCS) and School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023 Jiangsu, China
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Morrow Z, Kwon HY, Kelley CT, Jakubikova E. Reduced-dimensional surface hopping with offline-online computations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:19547-19557. [PMID: 34524324 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp03446d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
Molecular dynamics simulations often classically evolve the nuclear geometry on adiabatic potential energy surfaces (PESs), punctuated by random hops between energy levels in regions of strong coupling, in an algorithm known as surface hopping. However, the computational expense of integrating the geometry on a full-dimensional PES and computing the required couplings can quickly become prohibitive as the number of atoms increases. In this work, we describe a method for surface hopping that uses only important reaction coordinates, performs all expensive evaluations of the true PESs and couplings only once before simulating dynamics (offline), and then queries the stored values during the surface hopping simulation (online). Our Python codes are freely available on GitHub. Using photodissociation of azomethane as a test case, this method is able to reproduce experimental results that have thus far eluded ab initio surface hopping studies.
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- Zachary Morrow
- Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Box 8205, Raleigh, NC 27695-8205, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Box 8204, Raleigh, NC, 27695-8204, USA.
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- Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University, Box 8205, Raleigh, NC 27695-8205, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Box 8204, Raleigh, NC, 27695-8204, USA.
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Zobel JP, González L. The Quest to Simulate Excited-State Dynamics of Transition Metal Complexes. JACS AU 2021; 1:1116-1140. [PMID: 34467353 PMCID: PMC8397362 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.1c00252] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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This Perspective describes current computational efforts in the field of simulating photodynamics of transition metal complexes. We present the typical workflows and feature the strengths and limitations of the different contemporary approaches. From electronic structure methods suitable to describe transition metal complexes to approaches able to simulate their nuclear dynamics under the effect of light, we give particular attention to build a bridge between theory and experiment by critically discussing the different models commonly adopted in the interpretation of spectroscopic experiments and the simulation of particular observables. Thereby, we review all the studies of excited-state dynamics on transition metal complexes, both in gas phase and in solution from reduced to full dimensionality.
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- J. Patrick Zobel
- Institute
of Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währingerstr. 19, 1090 Vienna Austria
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- Institute
of Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währingerstr. 19, 1090 Vienna Austria
- Vienna
Research Platform on Accelerating Photoreaction Discovery, University of Vienna, Währingerstr. 19, 1090 Vienna Austria
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Xie XY, Yang JJ, Liu XY, Fang Q, Fang WH, Cui G. Interfacial photoinduced carrier dynamics tuned by polymerization of coronene molecules encapsulated in carbon nanotubes: bridging type-I and type-II heterojunctions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:13503-13511. [PMID: 34120157 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp01008e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Carbon nanomaterials play important roles in modern scientific research. Integrating different carbon-based building blocks into nano-hybrid architectures not only takes full advantage of each component, but also brings in novel interfacial properties. Herein, we have employed density functional theory (DFT) calculations to investigate the effects of polymerization degree of coronene molecules encapsulated in single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) (19,0) on their interfacial properties. The present results reveal that the interfacial properties of the formed heterojunctions are remarkably regulated by the polymerization degree. For example, monomer- and dimer-encapsulated SWNTs are type-I heterojunctions in which interfacial excitation energy transfer is preferred, whereas interfacial charge carrier transfer is favorable in trimer- and polymer-encapsulated SWNTs because they are type-II heterojunctions. On the other hand, we have employed the time-domain nonadiabatic dynamics simulation approach to explore the interfacial carrier dynamics in type-II polymer-encapsulated SWNT heterojunctions. It is found that the electron and hole transfer processes are asymmetric and occur in opposite directions and at different rates. The former takes place from polymers to SWNTs in an ultrafast way (ca. 370 fs), whereas the latter occurs slowly from SWNTs to polymers (ca. 24 ps). A closer analysis uncovers the fact that the different carrier transfer rates mainly originate from the different densities of the acceptor states, energy differences and inter-state couplings between the donor and acceptor states. Finally, the present work demonstrates that the polymerization degree could act as a new regulating strategy to tune the interfacial properties of molecule-encapsulated SWNT heterojunctions.
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- Xiao-Ying Xie
- The Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yantai University, Yantai, 264005, China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
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- College of Chemistry and Material Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610068, China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
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Coppola F, Cimino P, Raucci U, Chiariello MG, Petrone A, Rega N. Exploring the Franck-Condon region of a photoexcited charge transfer complex in solution to interpret femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy: excited state electronic structure methods to unveil non-radiative pathways. Chem Sci 2021; 12:8058-8072. [PMID: 34194695 PMCID: PMC8208128 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc01238j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2021] [Accepted: 04/27/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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We present electronic structure methods to unveil the non-radiative pathways of photoinduced charge transfer (CT) reactions that play a main role in photophysics and light harvesting technologies. A prototypical π-stacked molecular complex consisting of an electron donor (1-chloronaphthalene, 1ClN) and an electron acceptor (tetracyanoethylene, TCNE) was investigated in dichloromethane solution for this purpose. The characterization of TCNE:π:1ClN in both its equilibrium ground and photoinduced low-lying CT electronic states was performed by using a reliable and accurate theoretical-computational methodology exploiting ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. The structural and vibrational time evolution of key vibrational modes is found to be in excellent agreement with femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy experiments [R. A. Mathies et al., J. Phys. Chem. A, 2018, 122, 14, 3594], unveiling a correlation between vibrational fingerprints and electronic properties. The evaluation of nonadiabatic coupling matrix elements along generalized normal modes has made possible the interpretation on the molecular scale of the activation of nonradiative relaxation pathways towards the ground electronic state. In particular, two low frequency vibrational modes such as the out of plane bending and dimer breathing and the TCNE central C[double bond, length as m-dash]C stretching play a prominent role in relaxation phenomena from the electronic CT state to the ground state one.
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- Federico Coppola
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo via Cintia Napoli 80126 Italy
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Salerno Salerno 84084 Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo via Cintia Napoli 80126 Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo via Cintia Napoli 80126 Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo via Cintia Napoli 80126 Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo via Cintia Napoli 80126 Italy
- Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sui Biomateriali (CRIB) Piazzale Tecchio Napoli I-80125 Italy
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Parker SM, Schiltz CJ. Surface hopping with cumulative probabilities: Even sampling and improved reproducibility. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:174109. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0024372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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- Shane M. Parker
- Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, 10800 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, 10800 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA
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Coppola F, Perrella F, Petrone A, Donati G, Rega N. A Not Obvious Correlation Between the Structure of Green Fluorescent Protein Chromophore Pocket and Hydrogen Bond Dynamics: A Choreography From ab initio Molecular Dynamics. Front Mol Biosci 2020; 7:569990. [PMID: 33195416 PMCID: PMC7653547 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2020.569990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2020] [Accepted: 09/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
The Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) is a widely studied chemical system both for its large amount of applications and the complexity of the excited state proton transfer responsible of the change in the protonation state of the chromophore. A detailed investigation on the structure of the chromophore environment and the influence of chromophore form (either neutral or anionic) on it is of crucial importance to understand how these factors could potentially influence the protein function. In this study, we perform a detailed computational investigation based on the analysis of ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations, to disentangle the main structural quantities determining the fine balance in the chromophore environment. We found that specific hydrogen bonds interactions directly involving the chromophore (or not), are correlated to quantities, such as the volume of the cavity in which the chromophore is embedded and that it is importantly affected by the chromophore protonation state. The cross-correlation analysis performed on some of these hydrogen bonds and the cavity volume, demonstrates a direct correlation among them and we also identified the ones specifically involved in this correlation. We also found that specific interactions among residues far in the space are correlated, demonstrating the complexity of the chromophore environment and that many structural quantities have to be taken into account to properly describe and understand the main factors tuning the active site of the protein. From an overall evaluation of the results obtained in this work, it is shown that the residues which a priori are perceived to be spectators play instead an important role in both influencing the chromophore environment (cavity volume) and its dynamics (cross-correlations among spatially distant residues).
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- Federico Coppola
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.,Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Healthcare@CRIB, Naples, Italy
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Donati G, Petrone A, Rega N. Multiresolution continuous wavelet transform for studying coupled solute-solvent vibrations via ab initio molecular dynamics. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:22645-22661. [PMID: 33015693 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp02495c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Vibrational analysis in solution and the theoretical determination of infrared and Raman spectra are of key importance in many fields of chemical interest. Vibrational band dynamics of molecules and their sensitivity to the environment can also be captured by these spectroscopies in their time dependent version. However, it is often difficult to provide an interpretation of the experimental data at the molecular scale, such as molecular mechanisms or the processes hidden behind them. In this work, we present a theoretical-computational protocol based on ab initio molecular dynamics simulations and a combination of normal-like (generalized) mode analysis of solute-solvent clusters with a wavelet transform, for the first time. The case study is the vibrational dynamics of N-methyl-acetamide (NMA) in water solution, a well-known model of hydration of peptides and proteins. Amide modes are typical bands of peptide and protein backbone, and their couplings with the environment are very challenging in terms of the accurate prediction of solvent induced intensity and frequency shifts. The contribution of water molecules surrounding NMA to the composition of generalized and time resolved modes is introduced in our vibrational analysis, showing unequivocally its influence on the amide mode spectra. It is also shown that such mode compositions need the inclusion of the first shell solvent molecules to be accurately described. The wavelet analysis is proven to be strongly recommended to follow the time evolution of the spectra, and to capture vibrational band couplings and frequency shifts over time, preserving at the same time a well-balanced time-frequency resolution. This peculiar feature also allows one to perform a combined structural-vibrational analysis, where the different strengths of hydrogen bond interactions can quantitatively affect the amide bands over time at finite temperature. The proposed method allows for the direct connection between vibrational modes and local structural changes, providing a link from the spectroscopic observable to the structure, in this case the peptide backbone, and its hydration layouts.
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- Greta Donati
- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M. S. Angelo, Via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
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Shen L, Xie B, Li Z, Liu L, Cui G, Fang WH. Role of Multistate Intersections in Photochemistry. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:8490-8501. [PMID: 32787313 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
It has been generally accepted that the intersection of potential energy surfaces can facilitate nonadiabatic transitions and plays a crucial role in photochemistry. Although most previous studies have focused on the conical intersection of two electronic states, multistate intersections are common in polyatomic molecules, and their key roles in photochemistry have been uncovered by electronic structure calculations and nonadiabatic dynamics simulations. In this Perspective, the algorithms for searching two- or three-state intersections are first examined with an emphasis on the latest development in a general algorithm for location of multistate intersections. Then, we focus on intersystem crossing (ISC) that occurs in the region of multistate intersection, paying more attention to how the state-specific spin-orbit coupling interaction influences nonadiabatic ISC processes. Finally, the interweaving of nonadiabatic dynamics simulation and electronic structure calculation has been recognized as a correct way to ascertain the vital roles of multistate intersections in photochemical reactions.
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- Lin Shen
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, P.R. China
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- Hangzhou Institute of Advanced Studies, Zhejiang Normal University, 1108 Gengwen Road, Hangzhou 311231, Zhejiang, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, P.R. China
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Mai S, González L. Molecular Photochemistry: Recent Developments in Theory. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020; 59:16832-16846. [PMID: 32052547 PMCID: PMC7540682 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201916381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2019] [Revised: 02/12/2020] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Photochemistry is a fascinating branch of chemistry that is concerned with molecules and light. However, the importance of simulating light-induced processes is reflected also in fields as diverse as biology, material science, and medicine. This Minireview highlights recent progress achieved in theoretical chemistry to calculate electronically excited states of molecules and simulate their photoinduced dynamics, with the aim of reaching experimental accuracy. We focus on emergent methods and give selected examples that illustrate the progress in recent years towards predicting complex electronic structures with strong correlation, calculations on large molecules, describing multichromophoric systems, and simulating non-adiabatic molecular dynamics over long time scales, for molecules in the gas phase or in complex biological environments.
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- Sebastian Mai
- Photonics InstituteVienna University of TechnologyGusshausstrasse 27–291040ViennaAustria
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- Institute of Theoretical ChemistryFaculty of ChemistryUniversity of ViennaWähringer Strasse 171090ViennaAustria
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Raucci U, Perrella F, Donati G, Zoppi M, Petrone A, Rega N. Ab-initio molecular dynamics and hybrid explicit-implicit solvation model for aqueous and nonaqueous solvents: GFP chromophore in water and methanol solution as case study. J Comput Chem 2020; 41:2228-2239. [PMID: 32770577 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2020] [Revised: 06/21/2020] [Accepted: 06/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Solute-solvent interactions are proxies for understanding how the electronic density of a chromophore interacts with the environment in a more exhaustive way. The subtle balance between polarization, electrostatic, and non-bonded interactions need to be accurately described to obtain good agreement between simulations and experiments. First principles approaches providing accurate configurational sampling through molecular dynamics may be a suitable choice to describe solvent effects on solute chemical-physical properties and spectroscopic features, such as optical absorption of dyes. In this context, accurate energy potentials, obtained by hybrid implicit/explicit solvation methods along with employing nonperiodic boundary conditions, are required to represent bulk solvent around a large solute-solvent cluster. In this work, a novel strategy to simulate methanol solutions is proposed combining ab initio molecular dynamics, a hybrid implicit/explicit flexible solvent model, nonperiodic boundary conditions, and time dependent density functional theory. As case study, the robustness of the proposed protocol has been gauged by investigating the microsolvation and electronic absorption of the anionic green fluorescent protein chromophore in methanol and aqueous solution. Satisfactory results are obtained, reproducing the microsolvation layout of the chromophore and, as a consequence, the experimental trends shown by the optical absorption in different solvents.
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- Umberto Raucci
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, Naples, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, Naples, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, Naples, Italy.,Dipartimento di Chimica e Biologia "Adolfo Zambelli", Università di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, Naples, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, Naples, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, Naples, Italy.,Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Healthcare@CRIB, Naples, Italy
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Raucci U, Chiariello MG, Coppola F, Perrella F, Savarese M, Ciofini I, Rega N. An electron density based analysis to establish the electronic adiabaticity of proton coupled electron transfer reactions. J Comput Chem 2020; 41:1835-1841. [PMID: 32500950 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2020] [Revised: 04/22/2020] [Accepted: 04/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Electrons and protons are the main actors in play in proton coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions, which are fundamental in many biological (i.e., photosynthesis and enzymatic reactions) and electrochemical processes. The mechanism, energetics and kinetics of PCET reactions are strongly controlled by the coupling between the transferred electrons and protons. Concerted PCET reactions are classified according to the electronical adiabaticity degree of the process. To discriminate among different mechanisms, we propose a new analysis based on the use of electron density based indexes. We choose, as test case, the 3-Methylphenoxyl/phenol system in two different conformations to show how the proposed analysis is a suitable tool to discriminate between the different degree of adiabaticity of PCET processes. The very low computational cost of this procedure is extremely promising to analyze and provide evidences of PCET mechanisms ruling the reactivity of many biological and catalytic systems.
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- Umberto Raucci
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S.Angelo, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S.Angelo, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S.Angelo, Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S.Angelo, Napoli, Italy
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- Chimie ParisTech, PSL Research University, CNRS, Institute of Chemistry for Life and Health Sciences, Paris, France
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S.Angelo, Napoli, Italy.,CRIB Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Healthcare, Napoli, Italy
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Mai S, González L. Molekulare Photochemie: Moderne Entwicklungen in der theoretischen Chemie. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2020. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201916381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Sebastian Mai
- Institut für Photonik Technische Universität Wien Gußhausstraße 27–29 1040 Wien Österreich
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- Institut für theoretische Chemie Fakultät für Chemie Universität Wien Währinger Straße 17 1090 Wien Österreich
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Smith B, Akimov AV. Modeling nonadiabatic dynamics in condensed matter materials: some recent advances and applications. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2020; 32:073001. [PMID: 31661681 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ab5246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
This review focuses on recent developments in the field of nonadiabatic molecular dynamics (NA-MD), with particular attention given to condensed-matter systems. NA-MD simulations for small molecular systems can be performed using high-level electronic structure (ES) calculations, methods accounting for the quantization of nuclear motion, and using fewer approximations in the dynamical methodology itself. Modeling condensed-matter systems imposes many limitations on various aspects of NA-MD computations, requiring approximations at various levels of theory-from the ES, to the ways in which the coupling of electrons and nuclei are accounted for. Nonetheless, the approximate treatment of NA-MD in condensed-phase materials has gained a spin lately in many applied studies. A number of advancements of the methodology and computational tools have been undertaken, including general-purpose methods, as well as those tailored to nanoscale and condensed matter systems. This review summarizes such methodological and software developments, puts them into the broader context of existing approaches, and highlights some of the challenges that remain to be solved.
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- Brendan Smith
- Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States of America
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Stetina TF, Sun S, Lingerfelt DB, Clark A, Li X. The Role of Excited-State Proton Relays in the Photochemical Dynamics of Water Nanodroplets. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:3694-3698. [PMID: 31091108 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b01062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
In this work, we applied nonadiabatic excited-state molecular dynamics in tandem with ab initio electronic structure theory to illustrate a complete mechanistic landscape underpinning the ultraviolet absorption-initiated photochemical dynamics in water nanodroplets. The goal is to understand the nonequilibrium excited-state molecular dynamics initiated by the relaxation of a solvated photoelectron and consequential photochemical processes. The lowest-lying excited state shows the proton dissociation for a single water molecule forming intermediate hydronium complexes through a proton relay. At approximately 100 fs, the proton relay process gives rise to the relaxation of the excited state accompanied by a rapid increase in the nonadiabatic coupling strength with the ground state, and the nanodroplet nonradiatively decays. The nonadiabatic transition to the ground state produces excited vibrational states that facilitate the recombination of the dissociated proton and hydroxyl group, eventually leading to the desorption of water molecules from the nanodroplet. Additionally, lifetimes of transient photochemical events are also resolved for the relaxation of a solvated electron, excited-state proton relay, and nonradiative transition.
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- Torin F Stetina
- Department of Chemistry , University of Washington , Seattle , Washington 98195 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Washington , Seattle , Washington 98195 , United States
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences , Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge , Tennessee 37831 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , Washington State University , Pullman , Washington 99164 , United States
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , Richland , Washington 99352 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Washington , Seattle , Washington 98195 , United States
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Chiariello MG, Raucci U, Coppola F, Rega N. Unveiling anharmonic coupling by means of excited state ab initio dynamics: application to diarylethene photoreactivity. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:3606-3614. [PMID: 30306981 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp04707c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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In this work, excited state ab initio molecular dynamics together with a time resolved vibrational analysis is employed to shed light on the vibrational photoinduced dynamics of a well-known diarylethene molecule experiencing a ring opening reaction upon electronic excitation. The photoreactivity of diarylethenes is recognized to be controlled by a non-adiabatic intersection point between the ground and the first excited state surfaces. The computation of an energy scan, along a suitable reaction coordinate, allows us to identify the region of potential energy surfaces in which the ground (S0) and the first excited (S1) state are well separated. The adiabatic sampling of that region in S1 shows that in the first 3 picoseconds, the central CC bond, which is subject to break, oscillates in an antiphase with respect to the energy gap ΔE(S1 - S0). A multiresolution analysis based on the wavelet transform was then applied to the structural parameters extracted from the excited state dynamics. The wavelet maps show characteristic oscillations of the frequencies, mainly CC stretching and CCC bending localized on the central 4-ring moiety. Moreover, we have identified the main frequency (methyl wagging motion) involved in the modulation of these oscillations. The anharmonic coupling within a group of vibrational modes was therefore highlighted, in good agreement with experimental evidence. For the first time, a quantitative analysis of time resolved signals from a wavelet transform/ab initio molecular dynamics approach was performed.
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Crespo-Otero R, Barbatti M. Recent Advances and Perspectives on Nonadiabatic Mixed Quantum–Classical Dynamics. Chem Rev 2018; 118:7026-7068. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 301] [Impact Index Per Article: 50.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Rachel Crespo-Otero
- School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom
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Radler JJ, Lingerfelt DB, Castellano FN, Chen LX, Li X. Role of Vibrational Dynamics on Excited-State Electronic Coherence in a Binuclear Platinum Complex. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:5071-5077. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b01352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Joseph J. Radler
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8204, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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Kasper JM, Lestrange PJ, Stetina TF, Li X. Modeling L2,3-Edge X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy with Real-Time Exact Two-Component Relativistic Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory. J Chem Theory Comput 2018; 14:1998-2006. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b01279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Joseph M. Kasper
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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Comparison of the results of a mean-field mixed quantum/classical method with full quantum predictions for nonadiabatic dynamics: application to the $$\pi \pi ^*/n\pi ^*$$ π π ∗ / n π ∗ decay of thymine. Theor Chem Acc 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s00214-018-2218-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Chiariello MG, Rega N. Exploring Nuclear Photorelaxation of Pyranine in Aqueous Solution: an Integrated Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics and Time Resolved Vibrational Analysis Approach. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:2884-2893. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b12371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Maria Gabriella Chiariello
- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S.Angelo, via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di M.S.Angelo, via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
- Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Biomaterials (CRIB) Università di Napoli Federico II, Piazzale Tecchio 80, I-80125, Napoli, Italy
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Petrone A, Williams-Young DB, Lingerfelt DB, Li X. Ab Initio Excited-State Transient Raman Analysis. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:3958-3965. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b02905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Alessio Petrone
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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Xie B, Cui G, Fang WH. Multiple-State Nonadiabatic Dynamics Simulation of Photoisomerization of Acetylacetone with the Direct ab Initio QTMF Approach. J Chem Theory Comput 2017; 13:2717-2729. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Binbin Xie
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical
and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of
Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical
and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of
Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical
and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of
Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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Petrone A, Lingerfelt DB, Williams-Young DB, Li X. Ab Initio Transient Vibrational Spectral Analysis. J Phys Chem Lett 2016; 7:4501-4508. [PMID: 27788583 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Pump probe spectroscopy techniques have enabled the direct observation of a variety of transient molecular species in both ground and excited electronic states. Time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy is becoming an indispensable tool for investigating photoinduced nuclear dynamics of chemical systems of all kinds. On the other hand, a complete picture of the chemical dynamics encoded in these spectra cannot be achieved without a full temporal description of the structural relaxation, including the explicit time-dependence of vibrational coordinates that are substantially displaced from equilibrium by electronic excitation. Here we present a transient vibrational analysis protocol combining ab initio direct molecular dynamics and time-integrated normal modes introduced in this work, relying on the recent development of analytic time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) second derivatives for excited states. Prototypical molecules will be used as test cases, showing the evolution of the vibrational signatures that follow electronic excitation. This protocol provides a direct route to assigning the vibrations implicated in the (photo)dynamics of several (photoactive) systems.
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- Alessio Petrone
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington , Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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Nguyen TS, Koh JH, Lefelhocz S, Parkhill J. Black-Box, Real-Time Simulations of Transient Absorption Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2016; 7:1590-1595. [PMID: 27064028 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
Abstract
We introduce an atomistic, all-electron, black-box electronic structure code to simulate transient absorption (TA) spectra and apply it to simulate pyrazole and a GFP-chromophore derivative. The method is an application of OSCF2, our dissipative extension of time-dependent density functional theory. We compare our simulated spectra directly with recent ultrafast spectroscopic experiments. We identify features in the TA spectra to Pauli-blocking, which may be missed without a first-principles model. An important ingredient in this method is the stationary-TDDFT correction scheme recently put forward by Fischer, Govind, and Cramer that allows us to overcome a limitation of adiabatic TDDFT. We demonstrate that OSCF2 is able to reproduce the energies of bleaches and induced absorptions as well as the decay of the transient spectrum with only the molecular structure as input.
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Affiliation(s)
- Triet S Nguyen
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Notre Dame , 251 Nieuwland Science Hall, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Notre Dame , 251 Nieuwland Science Hall, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Notre Dame , 251 Nieuwland Science Hall, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
| | - John Parkhill
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Notre Dame , 251 Nieuwland Science Hall, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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