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Wang J, Oruganti B, Durbeej B. Computational Comparison of Chemical and Isotopic Approaches to Control the Photoisomerization Dynamics of Light-Driven Molecular Motors. J Org Chem 2021; 86:5552-5559. [PMID: 33784457 PMCID: PMC8154570 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c00063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Synthetic molecular
motors driven by E/Z photoisomerization
reactions are able to produce unidirectional
rotary motion because of a structural asymmetry that makes one direction
of rotation more probable than the other. In most such motors, this
asymmetry is realized through the incorporation of a chemically asymmetric
carbon atom. Here, we present molecular dynamics simulations based
on multiconfigurational quantum chemistry to investigate whether the
merits of this approach can be equaled by an alternative approach
that instead exploits isotopic chirality. By first considering an N-methylpyrrolidine–cyclopentadiene motor design,
it is shown that isotopically chiral variants of this design undergo
faster photoisomerizations than a chemically chiral counterpart, while
maintaining rotary photoisomerization quantum yields of similarly
high magnitude. However, by subsequently considering a pyrrolinium–cyclopentene
design, it is also found that the introduction of isotopic chirality
does not provide any control of the directionality of the photoinduced
rotations within this framework. Taken together, the results highlight
both the potential usefulness of isotopic rather than chemical chirality
for the design of light-driven molecular motors, and the need for
further studies to establish the exact structural circumstances under
which this asymmetry is best exploited.
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- Jun Wang
- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi, Facultat de Ciències, Universitat de Girona, ES-17003 Girona, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Linnaeus University, SE-45041 Kalmar, Sweden
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- Division of Theoretical Chemistry, IFM, Linköping University, SE-58183 Linköping, Sweden
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Wang J, Oruganti B, Durbeej B. Unidirectional Rotary Motion in Isotopically Chiral Molecular Motors: A Computational Analysis. Org Lett 2020; 22:7113-7117. [PMID: 32822192 PMCID: PMC7506945 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c02436] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Molecular dynamics
simulations are performed to explore if isotopic chirality can induce
unidirectional rotary motion in molecular motors operated through
double-bond photoisomerizations. Using a high-quantum yield motor
featuring a chemically asymmetric carbon atom as reference, it is
found that isotopically chiral counterparts of this motor sustain
such motion almost equally well. Overall, the study reveals a previously
unexplored role for isotopic chirality in the design of rotary molecular
motors.
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Affiliation(s)
- Jun Wang
- Division of Theoretical Chemistry, IFM, Linköping University, SE-58183 Linköping, Sweden.,Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi, Facultat de Ciències, Universitat de Girona, ES-17003 Girona, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Linnaeus University, SE-45041 Kalmar, Sweden
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- Division of Theoretical Chemistry, IFM, Linköping University, SE-58183 Linköping, Sweden
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Zhang YH, Sun XW, Zhang TS, Liu XY, Cui G. Nonadiabatic Dynamics Simulations on Early-Time Photochemistry of Spirobenzopyran. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:2547-2559. [PMID: 32187492 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c00791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Photoinduced ring-opening, decay, and isomerization of spirobenzopyran have been explored by the OM2/MRCI nonadiabatic dynamics simulations based on Tully's fewest-switches surface hopping scheme. The efficient S1 to S0 internal conversion as observed in experiments is attributed to the existence of two efficient excited-state decay pathways. The first one is related to the C-N dissociation, and the second one is done to the C-O dissociation. The C-O dissociation pathway is dominant, and more than 90% trajectories decay to the S0 state via the C-O bond-fission related S1/S0 conical intersections. Near these regions in the S0 state, trajectories can either return to spirobenzopyran or proceed to various intermediates including merocyanine via a series of bond rotations. Our nonadiabatic dynamics simulations also demonstrate that the hydrogen-out-of-plane (HOOP) motion is important for efficient and ultrafast excited-state deactivation. On the other hand, we have also found that the replacement of methyl groups by hydrogen atoms in spirobenzopyran can artificially introduce different intramolecular hydrogen transfers leading to hydrogen-transferred intermediates. This finding is important for the community and demonstrates that such a kind of structural truncation, sometimes, could be problematic, leading to incorrect photodynamics. Our present work provides valuable insights into the photodynamics of spirobenzopyran, which could be helpful for the design of spiropyran-based photochromic materials.
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- Ya-Hui Zhang
- 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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- 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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Motta LC, Kritee K, Blum JD, Tsz-Ki Tsui M, Reinfelder JR. Mercury Isotope Fractionation during the Photochemical Reduction of Hg(II) Coordinated with Organic Ligands. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:2842-2853. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b06308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Laura C. Motta
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Environmental Defense Fund, Boulder, Colorado 80302, United States
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina 27402, United States
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- Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, United States
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Zhang TS, Li ZW, Fang Q, Barbatti M, Fang WH, Cui G. Stereoselective Excited-State Isomerization and Decay Paths in cis-Cyclobiazobenzene. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:6144-6151. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b04372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Teng-Shuo Zhang
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, 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, 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, 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, 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, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, P. R. China
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Bannwarth C, Ehlert S, Grimme S. GFN2-xTB-An Accurate and Broadly Parametrized Self-Consistent Tight-Binding Quantum Chemical Method with Multipole Electrostatics and Density-Dependent Dispersion Contributions. J Chem Theory Comput 2019; 15:1652-1671. [PMID: 30741547 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b01176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1384] [Impact Index Per Article: 276.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
An extended semiempirical tight-binding model is presented, which is primarily designed for the fast calculation of structures and noncovalent interaction energies for molecular systems with roughly 1000 atoms. The essential novelty in this so-called GFN2-xTB method is the inclusion of anisotropic second order density fluctuation effects via short-range damped interactions of cumulative atomic multipole moments. Without noticeable increase in the computational demands, this results in a less empirical and overall more physically sound method, which does not require any classical halogen or hydrogen bonding corrections and which relies solely on global and element-specific parameters (available up to radon, Z = 86). Moreover, the atomic partial charge dependent D4 London dispersion model is incorporated self-consistently, which can be naturally obtained in a tight-binding picture from second order density fluctuations. Fully analytical and numerically precise gradients (nuclear forces) are implemented. The accuracy of the method is benchmarked for a wide variety of systems and compared with other semiempirical methods. Along with excellent performance for the "target" properties, we also find lower errors for "off-target" properties such as barrier heights and molecular dipole moments. High computational efficiency along with the improved physics compared to its precursor GFN-xTB makes this method well-suited to explore the conformational space of molecular systems. Significant improvements are furthermore observed for various benchmark sets, which are prototypical for biomolecular systems in aqueous solution.
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- Christoph Bannwarth
- Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry , Universität Bonn , Beringstr. 4 , 53115 Bonn , Germany.,Department of Chemistry , Stanford University , Stanford , California 94305 , United States
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- Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry , Universität Bonn , Beringstr. 4 , 53115 Bonn , Germany
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- Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry , Universität Bonn , Beringstr. 4 , 53115 Bonn , Germany
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Liu J, Koslowski A, Thiel W. Analytic gradient and derivative couplings for the spin-flip extended configuration interaction singles method: Theory, implementation, and application to proton transfer. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:244108. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5037081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Jie Liu
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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Armengol P, Spörkel L, Gelabert R, Moreno M, Thiel W, Lluch JM. Ultrafast action chemistry in slow motion: atomistic description of the excitation and fluorescence processes in an archetypal fluorescent protein. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:11067-11080. [PMID: 29620123 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp00371h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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We report quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations on the electronically excited state of green fluorescent protein mutant S65T/H148D. We examine the driving force of the ultrafast (τ < 50 fs) excited-state proton transfer unleashed by absorption in the A band at 415 nm and propose an atomistic description of the two dynamical regimes experimentally observed [Stoner Ma et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2008, 130, 1227]. These regimes are explained in terms of two sets of successive dynamical events: first the proton transfers quickly from the chromophore to the acceptor Asp148. Thereafter, on a slower time scale, there are geometrical changes in the cavity of the chromophore that involve the distance between the chromophore and Asp148, the planarity of the excited-state chromophore, and the distance between the chromophore and Tyr145. We find two different non-radiative relaxation channels that are operative for structures in the reactant region and that can explain the mismatch between the decay of the emission of A* and the rise of the emission of I*, as well as the temperature dependence of the non-radiative decay rate.
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- Pau Armengol
- Departament de Qímica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
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Liu J, Thiel W. An efficient implementation of semiempirical quantum-chemical orthogonalization-corrected methods for excited-state dynamics. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:154103. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5022466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Jie Liu
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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Che M, Gao YJ, Zhang Y, Xia SH, Cui G. Electronic structure calculations and nonadiabatic dynamics simulations of excited-state relaxation of Pigment Yellow 101. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:6524-6532. [PMID: 29446425 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp07692d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
Pigment Yellow 101 (PY101) is widely used as a typical pigment due to its excellent excited-state properties. However, the origin of its photostability is still elusive. In this work, we have systematically investigated the photodynamics of PY101 by performing combined electronic structure calculations and trajectory-based nonadiabatic dynamics simulations. On the basis of the results, we have found that upon photoexcitation to the S1 state, PY101 undergoes an essentially barrierless excited-state intramolecular single proton transfer generating an S1 keto species. In the keto region, there is an energetically accessible S1/S0 conical intersection that funnels the system to the S0 state quickly. In the S0 state, the keto species either goes back to its trans-enol species through a ground-state reverse hydrogen transfer or arrives at the cis-keto region. In addition, we have found an additional excited-state decay channel for the S1 enol species, which is directly linked to an S1/S0 conical intersection located in the enol region. This mechanism has also been confirmed by our dynamics simulations, in which about 54% of the trajectories decay to the S0 state via the enol S1/S0 conical intersection; while the remaining ones employ the keto S1/S0 conical intersection. The gained mechanistic information helps us understand the photostability of the PY101 chromophore and its variants with the same molecular scaffold.
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- Meng Che
- College of Life and Environmental Science, Minzu University of China, Beijing 100081, China.
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Mori Y. Reaction pathway and H/D kinetic isotope effects of the triple proton transfer in a 7-hydroxyquinoline-methanol complex in the ground state: A computational approach. J PHYS ORG CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/poc.3747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Yukie Mori
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science; Ochanomizu University; Tokyo Japan
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Lin Y, Akimov AV. Dependence of Nonadiabatic Couplings with Kohn–Sham Orbitals on the Choice of Density Functional: Pure vs Hybrid. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:9028-9041. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b09660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Yuhan Lin
- Department
of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York 14260-3000, United States
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Tuna D, Lu Y, Koslowski A, Thiel W. Semiempirical Quantum-Chemical Orthogonalization-Corrected Methods: Benchmarks of Electronically Excited States. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:4400-22. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.6b00403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Deniz Tuna
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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Green O, Simkovitch R, Pinto da Silva L, Esteves da Silva JCG, Shabat D, Huppert D. Excited-State Proton Transfer and Formation of the Excited Tautomer of 3-Hydroxypyridine-Dipicolinium Cyanine Dye. J Phys Chem A 2016; 120:6184-99. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b04666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Ori Green
- Raymond
and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Raymond
and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Raymond
and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Raymond
and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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Dormant acceptor activation of 10-hydroxybenzoquinline derivatives by excited-state intramolecular proton transfer. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2016.04.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Spörkel L, Thiel W. Adaptive time steps in trajectory surface hopping simulations. J Chem Phys 2016; 144:194108. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4948956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Lasse Spörkel
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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Wu D, Guo WW, Liu XY, Cui G. Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer in a Blue Fluorescence Chromophore Induces Dual Emission. Chemphyschem 2016; 17:2340-7. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201600386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2016] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Dan Wu
- 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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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry; Ministry of Education; College of Chemistry; Beijing Normal University; Beijing 100875 China
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Azarias C, Budzák Š, Laurent AD, Ulrich G, Jacquemin D. Tuning ESIPT fluorophores into dual emitters. Chem Sci 2016; 7:3763-3774. [PMID: 29997864 PMCID: PMC6008603 DOI: 10.1039/c5sc04826e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2015] [Accepted: 02/23/2016] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
Using first-principle approaches, we show how ESIPT can be controlled by fine-tuning of substituents, hence leading to new dual emitters.
Dyes undergoing excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) are known to present large Stokes shifts as a result of the important geometrical reorganisation following photon absorption. When the ESIPT process is not quantitative, one can obtain dual emitters characterised by two distinct fluorescence bands, observed due to emissions from both the canonical and ESIPT isomers. However, dual emission generally requires to maintain a very specific balance, as the relative excited-state free energies of the two tautomers have to be within a narrow window to observe the phenomenon. Consequently, simple chemical intuition is insufficient to optimise dual emission. In the present contribution, we investigate, with the help of quantum-mechanical tools and more precisely, time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) and algebraic diagrammatic construction (ADC), a wide panel of possible ESIPT/dual emitters with various substituents. The selected protocol is first shown to be very robust on a series of structures with known experimental behaviour, and next is applied to novel derivatives with various substituents located at different positions. This work encompasses the largest chemical library of potential ESIPT compounds studied to date. We pinpoint the most promising combinations for building dual emitters, highlight unexpected combination effects and rationalise the impact of the different auxochromes.
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- Cloé Azarias
- CEISAM , UMR CNRS 6230 , Université de Nantes , BP 92208, 2, Rue de la Houssinière , 44322 Nantes, Cedex 3 , France . ; Tel: +33-2-51-12-55-64
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- CEISAM , UMR CNRS 6230 , Université de Nantes , BP 92208, 2, Rue de la Houssinière , 44322 Nantes, Cedex 3 , France . ; Tel: +33-2-51-12-55-64
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- CEISAM , UMR CNRS 6230 , Université de Nantes , BP 92208, 2, Rue de la Houssinière , 44322 Nantes, Cedex 3 , France . ; Tel: +33-2-51-12-55-64
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- Institut de Chimie et Procédés pour l'Energie , l'Environnement et la Santé (ICPEES) UMR7515 CNRS Université de Strasbourg , 25 rue Becquerel , 67087 Strasbourg Cedex 02 , France
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- CEISAM , UMR CNRS 6230 , Université de Nantes , BP 92208, 2, Rue de la Houssinière , 44322 Nantes, Cedex 3 , France . ; Tel: +33-2-51-12-55-64.,Institut Universitaire de France , 1, rue Descartes , F-75005 Paris Cedex 05 , France
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Xia SH, Xie BB, Fang Q, Cui G, Thiel W. Excited-state intramolecular proton transfer to carbon atoms: nonadiabatic surface-hopping dynamics simulations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 17:9687-97. [PMID: 25711992 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp00101c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
Excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) between two highly electronegative atoms, for example, oxygen and nitrogen, has been intensely studied experimentally and computationally, whereas there has been much less theoretical work on ESIPT to other atoms such as carbon. We have employed CASSCF, MS-CASPT2, RI-ADC(2), OM2/MRCI, DFT, and TDDFT methods to study the mechanistic photochemistry of 2-phenylphenol, for which such an ESIPT has been observed experimentally. According to static electronic structure calculations, irradiation of 2-phenylphenol populates the bright S1 state, which has a rather flat potential in the Franck-Condon region (with a shallow enol minimum at the CASSCF level) and may undergo an essentially barrierless ESIPT to the more stable S1 keto species. There are two S1/S0 conical intersections that mediate relaxation to the ground state, one in the enol region and one in the keto region, with the latter one substantially lower in energy. After S1 → S0 internal conversion, the transient keto species can return back to the S0 enol structure via reverse ground-state hydrogen transfer in a facile tautomerization. This mechanistic scenario is verified by OM2/MRCI-based fewest-switches surface-hopping simulations that provide detailed dynamic information. In these trajectories, ESIPT is complete within 118 fs; the corresponding S1 excited-state lifetime is computed to be 373 fs in vacuum. Most of the trajectories decay to the ground state via the S1/S0 conical intersection in the keto region (67%), and the remaining ones via the enol region (33%). The combination of static electronic structure computations and nonadiabatic dynamics simulations is expected to be generally useful for understanding the mechanistic photophysics and photochemistry of molecules with intramolecular hydrogen bonds.
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- Shu-Hua Xia
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
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Liu XY, Chang XP, Xia SH, Cui G, Thiel W. Excited-State Proton-Transfer-Induced Trapping Enhances the Fluorescence Emission of a Locked GFP Chromophore. J Chem Theory Comput 2016; 12:753-64. [PMID: 26744782 PMCID: PMC4750082 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The chemical locking of the central
single bond in core chromophores
of green fluorescent proteins (GFPs) influences their excited-state
behavior in a distinct manner. Experimentally, it significantly enhances
the fluorescence quantum yield of GFP chromophores with an ortho-hydroxyl
group, while it has almost no effect on the photophysics of GFP chromophores
with a para-hydroxyl group. To unravel the underlying physical reasons
for this different behavior, we report static electronic structure
calculations and nonadiabatic dynamics simulations on excited-state
intramolecular proton transfer, cis–trans isomerization, and
excited-state deactivation in a locked ortho-substituted GFP model
chromophore (o-LHBI). On the basis of our previous and present results,
we find that the S1 keto species is responsible for the
fluorescence emission of the unlocked o-HBI and the locked o-LHBI
species. Chemical locking does not change the parts of the S1 and S0 potential energy surfaces relevant to enol–keto
tautomerization; hence, in both chromophores, there is an ultrafast
excited-state intramolecular proton transfer that takes only 35 fs
on average. However, the locking effectively hinders the S1 keto species from approaching the keto S1/S0 conical intersections so that most of trajectories are trapped in
the S1 keto region for the entire 2 ps simulation time.
Therefore, the fluorescence quantum yield of o-LHBI is enhanced compared
with that of unlocked o-HBI, in which the S1 excited-state
decay is efficient and ultrafast. In the case of the para-substituted
GFP model chromophores p-HBI and p-LHBI, chemical locking hardly affects
their efficient excited-state deactivation via cis–trans isomerization;
thus, the fluorescence quantum yields in these chromophores remain
very low. The insights gained from the present work may help to guide
the design of new GFP chromophores with improved fluorescence emission
and brightness.
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- Xiang-Yang Liu
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University , Beijing 100875, China and
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University , Beijing 100875, China and
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University , Beijing 100875, China and
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University , Beijing 100875, China and
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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Xie BB, Xia SH, Chang XP, Cui G. Photophysics of Auramine-O: electronic structure calculations and nonadiabatic dynamics simulations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:403-413. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp05312a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
Abstract
Sequential vs. concerted S1 relaxation pathways.
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- Bin-Bin Xie
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry
- Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry
- Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry
- Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry
- Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
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Guo WW, Liu XY, Chen WK, Cui G. Excited-state proton transfer in 4-2′-hydroxyphneylpyridine: full-dimensional surface-hopping dynamics simulations. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra17827h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
Abstract
We have employed combined electronic structure calculations and “on-the-fly” fewest switches surface-hopping dynamics simulations to study the S1 excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) and decay dynamics of 4-(2′-hydroxyphenyl)pyridine.
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- Wei-Wei Guo
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry
- Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry
- Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry
- Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry
- Ministry of Education
- College of Chemistry
- Beijing Normal University
- Beijing 100875
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Xia SH, Liu XY, Fang Q, Cui G. Photodissociation dynamics of CH3C(O)SH in argon matrix: A QM/MM nonadiabatic dynamics simulation. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:194303. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4935598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Xu C, Yu L, Zhu C, Yu J. Photoisomerization Reaction Mechanisms of o-Nitrophenol Revealed by Analyzing Intersystem Crossing Network at the MRCI Level. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:10441-50. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b06166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Chao Xu
- College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, P. R. China
- Institute
of Molecular Science, Department of Applied Chemistry and Center for
Interdisciplinary Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
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- Institute
of Molecular Science, Department of Applied Chemistry and Center for
Interdisciplinary Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
- Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule Chemistry of Ministry of Education, The College of Chemistry & Materials Science, Shaanxi key Laboratory of Physico-Inorganic Chemistry, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, P. R. China
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- Institute
of Molecular Science, Department of Applied Chemistry and Center for
Interdisciplinary Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan
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- College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, P. R. China
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Cui G, Thiel W. Generalized trajectory surface-hopping method for internal conversion and intersystem crossing. J Chem Phys 2015; 141:124101. [PMID: 25273406 DOI: 10.1063/1.4894849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
Abstract
Trajectory-based fewest-switches surface-hopping (FSSH) dynamics simulations have become a popular and reliable theoretical tool to simulate nonadiabatic photophysical and photochemical processes. Most available FSSH methods model internal conversion. We present a generalized trajectory surface-hopping (GTSH) method for simulating both internal conversion and intersystem crossing processes on an equal footing. We consider hops between adiabatic eigenstates of the non-relativistic electronic Hamiltonian (pure spin states), which is appropriate for sufficiently small spin-orbit coupling. This choice allows us to make maximum use of existing electronic structure programs and to minimize the changes to available implementations of the traditional FSSH method. The GTSH method is formulated within the quantum mechanics (QM)/molecular mechanics framework, but can of course also be applied at the pure QM level. The algorithm implemented in the GTSH code is specified step by step. As an initial GTSH application, we report simulations of the nonadiabatic processes in the lowest four electronic states (S0, S1, T1, and T2) of acrolein both in vacuo and in acetonitrile solution, in which the acrolein molecule is treated at the ab initio complete-active-space self-consistent-field level. These dynamics simulations provide detailed mechanistic insight by identifying and characterizing two nonadiabatic routes to the lowest triplet state, namely, direct S1 → T1 hopping as major pathway and sequential S1 → T2 → T1 hopping as minor pathway, with the T2 state acting as a relay state. They illustrate the potential of the GTSH approach to explore photoinduced processes in complex systems, in which intersystem crossing plays an important role.
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- Ganglong Cui
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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Nikiforov A, Gamez JA, Thiel W, Huix-Rotllant M, Filatov M. Assessment of approximate computational methods for conical intersections and branching plane vectors in organic molecules. J Chem Phys 2015; 141:124122. [PMID: 25273427 DOI: 10.1063/1.4896372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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Quantum-chemical computational methods are benchmarked for their ability to describe conical intersections in a series of organic molecules and models of biological chromophores. Reference results for the geometries, relative energies, and branching planes of conical intersections are obtained using ab initio multireference configuration interaction with single and double excitations (MRCISD). They are compared with the results from more approximate methods, namely, the state-interaction state-averaged restricted ensemble-referenced Kohn-Sham method, spin-flip time-dependent density functional theory, and a semiempirical MRCISD approach using an orthogonalization-corrected model. It is demonstrated that these approximate methods reproduce the ab initio reference data very well, with root-mean-square deviations in the optimized geometries of the order of 0.1 Å or less and with reasonable agreement in the computed relative energies. A detailed analysis of the branching plane vectors shows that all currently applied methods yield similar nuclear displacements for escaping the strong non-adiabatic coupling region near the conical intersections. Our comparisons support the use of the tested quantum-chemical methods for modeling the photochemistry of large organic and biological systems.
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- Alexander Nikiforov
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 7, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Bonn, Beringstr. 4, D-53115 Bonn, Germany
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Xie BB, Xia SH, Liu LH, Cui G. Surface-Hopping Dynamics Simulations of Malachite Green: A Triphenylmethane Dye. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:5607-17. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b02549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Bin-Bin 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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- Key Laboratory of Theoretical
and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of
Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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Spörkel L, Jankowska J, Thiel W. Photoswitching of salicylidene methylamine: a theoretical photodynamics study. J Phys Chem B 2014; 119:2702-10. [PMID: 25341075 PMCID: PMC4479613 DOI: 10.1021/jp5095678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
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Photoswitching
of simple photochromic molecules attracts substantial
attention because of its possible role in future photon-driven molecular
electronics. Here we model the full photoswitching cycle of a minimal
photochromic Schiff base–salicylidene methylamine (SMA). We
perform semiempirical nonadiabatic on-the-fly photodynamics simulations
at the OM2/MRCI level and thoroughly analyze the structural time evolution
and switching efficiency of the system. We also identify and examine
in detail the crucial steps in the SMA photochemistry ruled by excited-state
intramolecular proton transfer. The results place the investigated
model aromatic Schiff base among the promising candidates for novel
photoswitching molecular materials. Our study also shows the potential
of the semiempirical multireference photodynamics simulations as a
tool for early stage molecular photodevice design.
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- Lasse Spörkel
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung , Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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Hubin PO, Laurent AD, Vercauteren DP, Jacquemin D. Investigation of ESIPT in a panel of chromophores presenting N-H∙∙∙N intramolecular hydrogen bonds. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:25288-95. [PMID: 25336353 DOI: 10.1039/c4cp03223c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
Abstract
Thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) are investigated in 11 chromophores harboring an intramolecular N-H∙∙∙N hydrogen bond [pyridyl pyrazole, pyridyl pyrrole, azaindole, pyridyl indole, pyrroloquinoline, and an analogue of the Blue Fluorescent Protein (BFP) chromophore] with the help of quantum mechanical calculations. For pyridyl pyrazoles, simulated spectra are used to help the interpretation of experimental ones and the effects of several substituents are investigated. Then it is shown that Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory fails to satisfactorily describe the energetic aspects of ESIPT for the BFP chromophore analogue. Equation-of-Motion Coupled Cluster theory is thus used to reach accurate insights for this challenging case.
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- Pierre O Hubin
- Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Informatique (PCI), Unité de Chimie Physique Théorique et Structurale, Université de Namur, 61 rue de Bruxelles, 5000 Namur, Belgium.
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Petrone A, Donati G, Caruso P, Rega N. Understanding THz and IR Signals beneath Time-Resolved Fluorescence from Excited-State Ab Initio Dynamics. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:14866-74. [DOI: 10.1021/ja507518k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Alessio Petrone
- 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
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- Italian Institute of Technology, IIT@CRIB Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Healthcare, Largo
Barsanti e Matteucci, I-80125 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
- Italian Institute of Technology, IIT@CRIB Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Healthcare, Largo
Barsanti e Matteucci, I-80125 Napoli, Italy
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