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Alamgir M, Mahapatra S. Optimal control of N-H photodissociation of pyridinyl. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:074303. [PMID: 38375903 DOI: 10.1063/5.0188633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 02/21/2024] Open
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The N-H photodissociation dynamics of the pyridinyl radical upon continuous excitation to the optically bright, first excited ππ* electronic state by an ultra-violet (UV) laser pulse has been investigated within the mathematical framework of optimal control theory. The genetic algorithm (GA) is employed as the optimization protocol. We considered a three-state and three-mode model Hamiltonian, which includes the reaction coordinate, R (a1 symmetry); the coupling coordinates (namely, out-of-plane bending coordinate of the hydrogen atom of azine group), Θ (b1 symmetry); and the wagging mode, Q9 (a2 symmetry). The three electronic states are the ground, ππ*, and πσ* states. The πσ* state crosses both the ground state and the ππ* state, and it is a repulsive state on which N-H dissociation occurs upon photoexcitation. Different vibrational wave functions along the coupling coordinates, Θ and Q9, of the ground electronic state are used as the initial condition for solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. The optimal UV laser pulse is designed by applying the GA, which maximizes the dissociation yield. We obtained over 95% dissociation yield through the πσ* asymptote using the optimal pulse of a time duration of ∼30 000 a.u. (∼725.66 fs).
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- Mohammed Alamgir
- School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500 046, India
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- School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad 500 046, India
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Lu C, Shi M, Pan S, Zhou L, Qiang J, Lu P, Zhang W, Wu J. Electron transfer in strong-field three-body fragmentation of ArKr 2 trimers. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:094302. [PMID: 36889967 DOI: 10.1063/5.0134833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2023] Open
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We experimentally studied the three-body fragmentation dynamics of a noble gas cluster (ArKr2) upon its multiple ionization by an intense femtosecond laser pulse. The three-dimensional momentum vectors of correlated fragmental ions were measured in coincidence for each fragmentation event. A novel comet-like structure was observed in the Newton diagram of the quadruple-ionization-induced breakup channel of ArKr2 4+→ Ar+ + Kr+ + Kr2+. The concentrated head part of the structure mainly originates from the direct Coulomb explosion process, while the broader tail part of the structure stems from a three-body fragmentation process involving electron transfer between the distant Kr+ and Kr2+ ion fragments. Due to the field-driven electron transfer, the Coulomb repulsive force of the Kr2+ and Kr+ ions with respect to the Ar+ ion undergoes exchange, leading to changes in the ion emission geometry in the Newton plot. An energy sharing among the separating Kr2+ and Kr+ entities was observed. Our study indicates a promising approach for investigating the strong-field-driven intersystem electron transfer dynamics by using the Coulomb explosion imaging of an isosceles triangle van der Waals cluster system.
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- Chenxu Lu
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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Bondanza M, Demoulin B, Lipparini F, Barbatti M, Mennucci B. Trajectory Surface Hopping for a Polarizable Embedding QM/MM Formulation. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:6780-6789. [PMID: 36107729 PMCID: PMC9527758 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c04756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We present the implementation of trajectory surface-hopping
nonadiabatic
dynamics for a polarizable embedding QM/MM formulation. Time-dependent
density functional theory was used at the quantum mechanical level
of theory, whereas the molecular mechanics description involved the
polarizable AMOEBA force field. This implementation has been obtained
by integrating the surface-hopping program Newton-X NS with an interface
between the Gaussian 16 and the Tinker suites of codes to calculate
QM/AMOEBA energies and forces. The implementation has been tested
on a photoinduced electron-driven proton-transfer reaction involving
pyrimidine and a hydrogen-bonded water surrounded by a small cluster
of water molecules and within a large water droplet.
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- Mattia Bondanza
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi 13, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi 13, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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- Aix Marseille University, CNRS, ICR, 13385 Marseille, France
- Institut Universitaire de France, 75231 Paris, France
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- Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi 13, 56124 Pisa, Italy
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Domcke W, Sobolewski AL. Water Oxidation and Hydrogen Evolution with Organic Photooxidants: A Theoretical Perspective. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:2777-2788. [PMID: 35385277 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c00705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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In this Perspective, we discuss a novel water-splitting scenario, namely the direct oxidation of water molecules by organic photooxidants in hydrogen-bonded chromophore-water complexes. In comparison with the established scenario of semiconductor-based water splitting, the distance of electron transfer processes is thereby reduced from mesoscopic scales to the Ångström scale, and the time scale is reduced from milliseconds to femtoseconds, which suppresses competing loss processes. The concept is illustrated by computational studies for the heptazine-H2O complex. The excited-state landscape of this complex has been characterized with ab initio electronic-structure methods and the proton-coupled electron-transfer dynamics has been explored with nonadiabatic dynamics simulations. A unique feature of the heptazine chromophore is the existence of a low-lying and exceptionally long-lived 1ππ* state in which a substantial part of the photon energy can be stored for hundreds of nanoseconds and is available for the oxidation of water molecules. The calculations reveal that the absorption spectra and the photochemical functionalities of heptazine chromophores can be systematically tailored by chemical substitution. The options of harvesting hydrogen and the problems posed by the high reactivity of OH radicals are discussed.
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- Wolfgang Domcke
- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, D-85747 Garching, Germany
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Morawski O, Gawryś P, Sadło J, Sobolewski AL. Photochemical Hydrogen Storage with Hexaazatrinaphthylene (HATN). Chemphyschem 2022; 23:e202200077. [PMID: 35377513 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202200077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2022] [Revised: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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When irradiated with violet light, hexaazatrinaphthylene (HATN) extracts a hydrogen atom from an alcohol forming a long-living hydrogenated species. The kinetic isotope effect for fluorescence decay in deuterated methanol (1.56) indicates that the lowest singlet excited state of the molecule is a precursor for intermolecular hydrogen transfer. The photochemical hydrogenation occurs in several alcohols (methanol, ethanol, isopropanol) but not in water. Hydrogenated HATN can be detected optically by an absorption band at 1.78 eV as well as with EPR and NMR techniques. Mass spectroscopy of photoproducts reveal di-hydrogenated HATN structures along with methoxylated and methylated HATN molecules which are generated through the reaction with methoxy radicals (remnants from alcohol splitting). Experimental findings are consistent with the theoretical results which predicted that for the excited state of the HATN-solvent molecular complex, there exists a barrierless hydrogen transfer from methanol but a barrier for the similar oxidation of water.
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- Olaf Morawski
- Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences: Instytut Fizyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Radiation and Spectroscopy, Al. Lotnikow 32/46, 02-668, Warsaw, POLAND
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- Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences: Instytut Fizyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Radiation and Spectroscopy, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668, Warszawa, POLAND
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- Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Spectroscopy, ul. Dorodna 16, 03-195, Warsaw, POLAND
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- Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences: Instytut Fizyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Radiation and Spectroscopy, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668, Warsaw, POLAND
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Karas LJ, Wu CH, Wu JI. Barrier-Lowering Effects of Baird Antiaromaticity in Photoinduced Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer (PCET) Reactions. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:17970-17974. [PMID: 34672631 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c09324] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Many popular organic chromophores that catalyze photoinduced proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions are aromatic in the ground state but become excited-state antiaromatic in the lowest ππ* state. We show that excited-state antiaromaticity makes electron transfer easier. Two representative photoinduced electron transfer processes are investigated: (1) the photolysis of phenol and (2) solar water splitting of a pyridine-water complex. In the selected reactions, the directions of electron transfer are opposite, but the net result is proton transfer following the direction of electron transfer. Nucleus-independent chemical shifts (NICS), ionization energies, electron affinities, and PCET energy profiles of selected [4n] and [4n + 2] π-systems are presented, and important mechanistic implications are discussed.
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- Lucas J Karas
- Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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Cheng W, Zheng Y, Feng G, Grabow JU, Gou Q. Conformation and bonding of 2-methoxypyridine and its monohydrate from rotational spectra. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2020; 239:118434. [PMID: 32438304 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2020.118434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2020] [Revised: 04/27/2020] [Accepted: 04/28/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Rotational spectra of 2-methoxypyridine and its monohydrate have been characterized by pulsed jet Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy and complementary ab initio calculations. Rotational spectra of the parent monomer and seven mono-substituted isotopologues (13C and 15N) were measured in natural abundance, which allow determining the accurate structure of the skeleton of 2-methyoxypyridine. The barrier to the methyl internal rotation was determined from the A/E torsional symmetry species of the rotational transitions. For the 2-methyoxypyridine⋯H2O complex, rotational spectra of the parent dimer and isotopologues formed with isotopically enriched water (H218O, HOD, DOH and D2O) indicate that the observed isomer is stabilized by a strong OH⋯N and a secondary bifurcated (CH)2⋯O weak hydrogen bonds. Bader's quantum theory of atoms in molecules and Johnson's non-covalent interaction analyses were applied and visualized to have a better understanding of the non-covalent interactions in 2-methyoxypyridine⋯H2O.
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- Wanying Cheng
- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Daxuecheng South Rd. 55, 401331 Chongqing, China
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Daxuecheng South Rd. 55, 401331 Chongqing, China
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Daxuecheng South Rd. 55, 401331 Chongqing, China
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- Institut für Physikalische Chemie & Elektrochemie, Leibniz-Universität Hannover, Callinstraβe 3A, 30167 Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Daxuecheng South Rd. 55, 401331 Chongqing, China.
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Feng JY, Lee YP, Zhu CY, Hsu PJ, Kuo JL, Ebata T. IR-VUV spectroscopy of pyridine dimers, trimers and pyridine-ammonia complexes in a supersonic jet. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:21520-21534. [PMID: 32955537 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp03197f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The infrared spectra of the C-H stretching vibrations of (pyridine)m, m = 1-3, and the N-H stretching vibrations of (pyridine)m-(NH3)n, m = 1, 2; n = 1-4, complexes were investigated by infrared (IR)-vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) spectroscopy under jet-cooled conditions. The ionization potential (IP0) of the pyridine monomer was determined to be 74 546 cm-1 (9.242 eV), while its complexes showed only smooth curves of the ionization thresholds at ∼9 eV, indicating large structural changes in the ionic form. The pyridine monomer exhibits five main features with several satellite bands in the C-H stretching region at 3000-3200 cm-1. Anharmonic calculations including Fermi-resonance were carried out to analyze the candidates of the overtone and combination bands which can couple to the C-H stretching fundamentals. For (pyridine)2 and (pyridine)3, most C-H bands are blue-shifted by 3-5 cm-1 from those of the monomer. The structures revealed by random searching algorithms with density functional methods indicate that the π-stacked structure is most stable for (pyridine)2, while (pyridine)3 prefers the structures stabilized by dipole-dipole and C-Hπ interactions. For the (pyridine)m-(NH3)n complexes, the mass spectrum exhibited a wide range distribution of the complexes. The observed IR spectra in the N-H stretching vibrations of the complexes showed four main bands in the 3200-3450 cm-1 region. These features are very similar to those of (NH3)n complexes, and the bands are assigned to the anti-symmetric N-H stretching band (ν3), the symmetric N-H stretching (ν1) band, and the first overtone bands of the N-H bending vibrations (2ν4). The anharmonic calculations including the Fermi-resonance between ν1 and 2ν4 well reproduced the observed spectra.
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- Jun-Ying Feng
- Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute for Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan.
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Huang X, Aranguren JP, Ehrmaier J, Noble JA, Xie W, Sobolewski AL, Dedonder-Lardeux C, Jouvet C, Domcke W. Photoinduced water oxidation in pyrimidine-water clusters: a combined experimental and theoretical study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:12502-12514. [PMID: 32452507 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp01562h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The photocatalytic oxidation of water with molecular or polymeric N-heterocyclic chromophores is a topic of high current interest in the context of artificial photosynthesis, that is, the conversion of solar energy to clean fuels. Hydrogen-bonded clusters of N-heterocycles with water molecules in a molecular beam are simple model systems for which the basic mechanisms of photochemical water oxidation can be studied under well-defined conditions. In this work, we explored the photoinduced H-atom transfer reaction in pyrimidine-water clusters yielding pyrimidinyl and hydroxyl radicals with laser spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and trajectory-based ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. The oxidation of water by photoexcited pyrimidine is unequivocally confirmed by the detection of the pyrimidinyl radical. The dynamics simulations provide information on the time scales and branching ratios of the reaction. While relaxation to local minima of the S1 potential-energy surface is the dominant reaction channel, the H-atom transfer reaction occurs on ultrafast time scales (faster than about 100 fs) with a branching ratio of a few percent.
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- Xiang Huang
- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany.
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Ehrmaier J, Huang X, Rabe EJ, Corp KL, Schlenker CW, Sobolewski AL, Domcke W. Molecular Design of Heptazine-Based Photocatalysts: Effect of Substituents on Photocatalytic Efficiency and Photostability. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:3698-3710. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c00488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Johannes Ehrmaier
- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Garching D-85747, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Garching D-85747, Germany
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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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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Garching D-85747, Germany
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Yamamoto K, Takatsuka K. Binuclear Mn oxo complex as a self-contained photocatalyst in water-splitting cycle: Role of additional Mn oxides as a buffer of electrons and protons. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:024115. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5139065] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Kentaro Yamamoto
- Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University, Sakyou-ku, Kyoto 606-8103, Japan
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- Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University, Sakyou-ku, Kyoto 606-8103, Japan
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Pang X, Jiang C, Xie W, Domcke W. Photoinduced electron-driven proton transfer from water to an N-heterocyclic chromophore: nonadiabatic dynamics studies for pyridine–water clusters. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:14073-14079. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp07015f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We performed the excited-state dynamics simulations for pyridine–water clusters and found the more water molecules involved in the cluster, the higher efficiency the water-splitting reaction has, which is qualitatively in consistent with a recent gas-phase experimental observations.
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- Xiaojuan Pang
- Key Laboratory for Quantum Information and Quantum Optoelectronic Devices
- China
- Department of Applied Physics
- Xi’an Jiaotong University
- Xi’an 710049
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- Key Laboratory for Quantum Information and Quantum Optoelectronic Devices
- China
- Department of Applied Physics
- Xi’an Jiaotong University
- Xi’an 710049
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- Department of Chemistry
- Technical University of Munich
- D-85747 Garching
- Germany
- Institute of Physical Chemistry
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- Department of Chemistry
- Technical University of Munich
- D-85747 Garching
- Germany
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Janicki MJ, Szabla R, Šponer J, Góra RW. Solvation effects alter the photochemistry of 2-thiocytosine. Chem Phys 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2018.06.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Domcke W, Ehrmaier J, Sobolewski AL. Solar Energy Harvesting with Carbon Nitrides and N-Heterocyclic Frameworks: Do We Understand the Mechanism? CHEMPHOTOCHEM 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/cptc.201800144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Wolfgang Domcke
- Department of Chemistry; Technical University of Munich; 85747 Garching Germany
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- Department of Chemistry; Technical University of Munich; 85747 Garching Germany
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Esteves-López N, Coussan S, Dedonder-Lardeux C, Jouvet C. Photoinduced water splitting in pyridine water clusters. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 18:25637-25644. [PMID: 27711521 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp04398d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Ab initio calculations predict that pyridine (Py) can act as a photo-catalyst to split water by the absorption of a UV photon following the reaction Py-H2O + hν → PyH˙ + OH˙. To test this prediction, we performed two types of experiments: in the first, we characterize the electronic spectroscopy of the PyH˙ radical in the gas phase. In the second, we evidence the reaction through the UV excitation of molecular Py-(H2O)n clusters obtained in a supersonic expansion and monitoring the PyH˙ reaction product. The results show unambiguously that PyH˙ is produced, and thus that water is split using pyridine as a photo-catalyst.
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- Natalia Esteves-López
- CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Physique des Interactions Ioniques et Moléculaires (PIIM) UMR-7345, Marseille, France.
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- CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Physique des Interactions Ioniques et Moléculaires (PIIM) UMR-7345, Marseille, France.
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- CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Physique des Interactions Ioniques et Moléculaires (PIIM) UMR-7345, Marseille, France.
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- CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Physique des Interactions Ioniques et Moléculaires (PIIM) UMR-7345, Marseille, France.
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Yamamoto K, Takatsuka K. On the photocatalytic cycle of water splitting with small manganese oxides and the roles of water clusters as direct sources of oxygen molecules. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:6708-6725. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp07171j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A study on the photocatalytic cycle of water splitting and coupled proton electron-wavepacket transfer (CPEWT) as key processes of the mechanism.
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- Kentaro Yamamoto
- Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry
- Kyoto University
- Kyoto 606-8103
- Japan
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- Fukui Institute for Fundamental Chemistry
- Kyoto University
- Kyoto 606-8103
- Japan
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Janicki MJ, Szabla R, Šponer J, Góra RW. Electron-driven proton transfer enables nonradiative photodeactivation in microhydrated 2-aminoimidazole. Faraday Discuss 2018; 212:345-358. [DOI: 10.1039/c8fd00086g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Prebiotically credible activator of non-enzymatic RNA template-copying, 2-aminoimidazole, is protected from destructive photochemistry by photoacidity.
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- Mikołaj J. Janicki
- Department of Physical and Quantum Chemistry
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Wrocław University of Science and Technology
- 50-370 Wrocław
- Poland
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- Institute of Physics
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- 02-668 Warsaw
- Poland
- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
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- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
- Brno
- Czech Republic
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- Department of Physical and Quantum Chemistry
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Wrocław University of Science and Technology
- 50-370 Wrocław
- Poland
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Ehrmaier J, Janicki MJ, Sobolewski AL, Domcke W. Mechanism of photocatalytic water splitting with triazine-based carbon nitrides: insights from ab initio calculations for the triazine–water complex. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:14420-14430. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp01998c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Valuable theoretical insights into the mechanism of photocatalytic water-splitting using triazine as a model system for carbon-nitride materials.
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- Johannes Ehrmaier
- Department of Chemistry
- Technical University of Munich
- D-85747 Garching
- Germany
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- Department of Chemistry
- Technical University of Munich
- D-85747 Garching
- Germany
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- Department of Chemistry
- Technical University of Munich
- D-85747 Garching
- Germany
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Ehrmaier J, Karsili TNV, Sobolewski AL, Domcke W. Mechanism of Photocatalytic Water Splitting with Graphitic Carbon Nitride: Photochemistry of the Heptazine-Water Complex. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:4754-4764. [PMID: 28592110 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b04594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Impressive progress has recently been achieved in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution with polymeric carbon nitride materials consisting of heptazine building blocks. However, the fundamental mechanistic principles of the catalytic cycle are as yet poorly understood. Here, we provide first-principles computational evidence that water splitting with heptazine-based materials can be understood as a molecular excited-state reaction taking place in hydrogen-bonded heptazine-water complexes. The oxidation of water occurs homolytically via an electron/proton transfer from water to heptazine, resulting in ground-state heptazinyl and OH radicals. It is shown that the excess hydrogen atom of the heptazinyl radical can be photodetached by a second photon, which regenerates the heptazine molecule. Alternatively to the photodetachment reaction, two heptazinyl radicals can recombine in a dark reaction to form H2, thereby regenerating two heptazine molecules. The proposed molecular photochemical reaction scheme within hydrogen-bonded chromophore-water complexes is complementary to the traditional paradigm of photocatalytic water splitting, which assumes the separation of electrons and holes over substantial time scales and distances.
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- Johannes Ehrmaier
- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich , Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich , Garching, Germany.,Department of Chemistry, Temple University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich , Garching, Germany
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Ehrmaier J, Picconi D, Karsili TNV, Domcke W. Photodissociation dynamics of the pyridinyl radical: Time-dependent quantum wave-packet calculations. J Chem Phys 2017; 146:124304. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4978283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Johannes Ehrmaier
- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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Mackenzie RB, Dewberry CT, Cornelius RD, Smith CJ, Leopold KR. Multidimensional Large Amplitude Dynamics in the Pyridine–Water Complex. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:855-860. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b11255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Rebecca B. Mackenzie
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street, SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Kettering University, 1700 University Avenue, Flint, Michigan 48504, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, St. Cloud State University, 720 Fourth Avenue South, St. Cloud, Minnesota 56301, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street, SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street, SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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Grebenshchikov SY, Picconi D. Fano resonances in the photoinduced H-atom elimination dynamics in the πσ* states of pyrrole. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:14902-14906. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp01401e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The interference is supported by two distinct dynamical scenarios controlled by two exit channel conical intersections between the πσ* states and the ground electronic state.
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- Department of Chemistry
- Technische Universität München
- 85747 Garching
- Germany
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Stylianou M, Hadjiadamou I, Drouza C, Hayes SC, Lariou E, Tantis I, Lianos P, Tsipis AC, Keramidas AD. Synthesis of new photosensitive H2BBQ2+[ZnCl4]2−/[(ZnCl)2(μ-BBH)] complexes, through selective oxidation of H2O to H2O2. Dalton Trans 2017; 46:3688-3699. [DOI: 10.1039/c6dt04643f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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A two-electron photosensitive H2O to H2O2 oxidizer, H2BBQ2+[ZnCl4]2−/[(ZnCl)2(μ-BBH)], has been synthesized. An aqueous {[(ZnCl)2(μ-BBH)]||H2O2} solar rechargeable galvanic cell has been constructed.
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- M. Stylianou
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Cyprus
- Nicosia 1678
- Cyprus
- Department of Agricultural Production Biotechnology and Food Science
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Cyprus
- Nicosia 1678
- Cyprus
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- Department of Agricultural Production Biotechnology and Food Science
- Cyprus University of Technology
- Limassol 3036
- Cyprus
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Cyprus
- Nicosia 1678
- Cyprus
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Cyprus
- Nicosia 1678
- Cyprus
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- University of Patras
- 26500 Patras
- Greece
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- University of Patras
- 26500 Patras
- Greece
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- Laboratory of Inorganic and General Chemistry
- University of Ioannina
- 45110 Ioannina
- Greece
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Cyprus
- Nicosia 1678
- Cyprus
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Lin T, Liu X, Lou Z, Hou Y, Teng F. Intermolecular-charge-transfer-induced fluorescence quenching in protic solvent. J Mol Struct 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2016.06.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Xie W, Domcke W, Farantos SC, Grebenshchikov SY. State-specific tunneling lifetimes from classical trajectories: H-atom dissociation in electronically excited pyrrole. J Chem Phys 2016; 144:104105. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4943214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Weiwei Xie
- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstr. 4, 85747 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstr. 4, 85747 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstr. 4, 85747 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Lichtenbergstr. 4, 85747 Garching, Germany
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Wu X, Karsili TNV, Domcke W. Excited-State Deactivation of Adenine by Electron-Driven Proton-Transfer Reactions in Adenine-Water Clusters: A Computational Study. Chemphyschem 2016; 17:1298-304. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201501154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Xiuxiu Wu
- Department of Chemistry; Technische Universität München; 85747 Garching Germany
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- Department of Chemistry; Technische Universität München; 85747 Garching Germany
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- Department of Chemistry; Technische Universität München; 85747 Garching Germany
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Liu X, Karsili TN, Sobolewski AL, Domcke W. Photocatalytic water splitting with acridine dyes: Guidelines from computational chemistry. Chem Phys 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2015.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Tuna D, Lefrancois D, Wolański Ł, Gozem S, Schapiro I, Andruniów T, Dreuw A, Olivucci M. Assessment of Approximate Coupled-Cluster and Algebraic-Diagrammatic-Construction Methods for Ground- and Excited-State Reaction Paths and the Conical-Intersection Seam of a Retinal-Chromophore Model. J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 11:5758-81. [PMID: 26642989 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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As a minimal model of the chromophore of rhodopsin proteins, the penta-2,4-dieniminium cation (PSB3) poses a challenging test system for the assessment of electronic-structure methods for the exploration of ground- and excited-state potential-energy surfaces, the topography of conical intersections, and the dimensionality (topology) of the branching space. Herein, we report on the performance of the approximate linear-response coupled-cluster method of second order (CC2) and the algebraic-diagrammatic-construction scheme of the polarization propagator of second and third orders (ADC(2) and ADC(3)). For the ADC(2) method, we considered both the strict and extended variants (ADC(2)-s and ADC(2)-x). For both CC2 and ADC methods, we also tested the spin-component-scaled (SCS) and spin-opposite-scaled (SOS) variants. We have explored several ground- and excited-state reaction paths, a circular path centered around the S1/S0 surface crossing, and a 2D scan of the potential-energy surfaces along the branching space. We find that the CC2 and ADC methods yield a different dimensionality of the intersection space. While the ADC methods yield a linear intersection topology, we find a conical intersection topology for the CC2 method. We present computational evidence showing that the linear-response CC2 method yields a surface crossing between the reference state and the first response state featuring characteristics that are expected for a true conical intersection. Finally, we test the performance of these methods for the approximate geometry optimization of the S1/S0 minimum-energy conical intersection and compare the geometries with available data from multireference methods. The present study provides new insight into the performance of linear-response CC2 and polarization-propagator ADC methods for molecular electronic spectroscopy and applications in computational photochemistry.
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- Deniz Tuna
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung , 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, University of Heidelberg , 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Technology , 50370 Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California , Los Angeles, California 90089, United States
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- Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg & Labex NIE, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS UMR 7504 , Strasbourg 67034, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Technology , 50370 Wrocław, Poland
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- Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, University of Heidelberg , 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University , Bowling Green, Ohio 43402, United States.,Dipartimento di Biotecnologie, Chimica e Farmacia, Universitá de Siena , 53100 Siena, Italy
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Liu X, Karsili TNV, Sobolewski AL, Domcke W. Photocatalytic Water Splitting with the Acridine Chromophore: A Computational Study. J Phys Chem B 2015. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b04833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Xiaojun Liu
- Department
of Chemistry, Technische Universität München, D-85747 Garching, Germany
- Key
Laboratory of Luminescence and Optical Information, Institute of Optoelectronic
Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, 100044 Beijing, China
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- Department
of Chemistry, Technische Universität München, D-85747 Garching, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry, Technische Universität München, D-85747 Garching, Germany
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Yamamoto K, Takatsuka K. An Electron Dynamics Mechanism of Charge Separation in the Initial-Stage Dynamics of Photoinduced Water Splitting in XMnWater (X=OH, OCaH) and Electron-Proton Acceptors. Chemphyschem 2015; 16:2534-7. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201500416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2015] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Karsili TNV, Tuna D, Ehrmaier J, Domcke W. Photoinduced water splitting via benzoquinone and semiquinone sensitisation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:32183-93. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp03831f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The splitting of water into H˙ and OH˙ radicals by sensitisation of a redox-active chromophore with sunlight may eventually become a viable way of producing unlimited, clean and sustainable energy.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tolga N. V. Karsili
- Department of Chemistry
- Technische Universität München
- D-85747 Garching
- Germany
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- Department of Chemistry
- Technische Universität München
- D-85747 Garching
- Germany
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- Department of Chemistry
- Technische Universität München
- D-85747 Garching
- Germany
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- Department of Chemistry
- Technische Universität München
- D-85747 Garching
- Germany
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