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Zhu H, Li Q. Understanding of Photo‐Induced Reversible Rearrangement from Borepin to Borirane. Chemistry 2022; 28:e202201360. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.202201360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Hong‐Yang Zhu
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Beijing Institute of Technology 5 South Zhongguancun Street Beijing 100081 P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Beijing Institute of Technology 5 South Zhongguancun Street Beijing 100081 P. R. China
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Datta S, Davis HF. Dimethylcarbene versus Direct Propene Formation in Dimethylketene Photodissociation. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:6940-6948. [PMID: 34369788 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c03641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Highly reactive carbenes are usually produced by photolysis of ketenes, diazoalkanes, or diazirines. Sequential kinetic pathways for deactivation of nascent carbenes usually involve bimolecular reactions in competition with isomerization producing stable products such as alkenes. However, the direct photolytic production of stable products, effectively bypassing formation of free carbenes, has been postulated for over 50 years but remains very poorly understood. Often termed "rearrangement in the excited state" (RIES), examples include 1,2-hydrogen migration within photoexcited carbene precursors yielding alkenes and the Wolff rearrangement in photogenerated carbonyl-substituted carbenes producing ketenes. In this study, the two competing CO elimination channels from photoexcited gaseous dimethylketene, producing dimethylcarbene and propene, were studied as a function of electronic excitation energy, under collision-free conditions, by using photofragment translational energy spectroscopy with vacuum ultraviolet photoionization of the products. A significant fraction of the dimethylcarbene → propene isomerization exothermicity (∼300 kJ/mol) was released as propene + CO translational energy, indicating that propene is formed prior to or concurrent with CO elimination. An increase in the propene yield with increasing excitation energy suggests that the effective potential energy barrier for this channel lies ∼24 kJ/mol above the energetic threshold for dimethylcarbene formation via C═C bond fission. Possible mechanisms for direct propene elimination are discussed in light of the observed energy dependence for the competing pathways.
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- Sagnik Datta
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-1301, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-1301, United States
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Piteša T, Alešković M, Becker K, Basarić N, Došlić N. Photoelimination of Nitrogen from Diazoalkanes: Involvement of Higher Excited Singlet States in the Carbene Formation. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:9718-9724. [PMID: 32349476 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c02221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Although diazoalkanes are important carbene precursors in organic synthesis, a comprehensive mechanism of photochemical formation of carbenes from diazoalkanes has not been proposed. Synergies of experiments and computations demonstrate the involvement of higher excited singlet states in the photochemistry of diazoalkanes. In all investigated diazoalkanes, excitation to S1 results in nonreactive internal conversion to S0. On the contrary, excitation to higher-lying singlet states (Sn, n > 1) drives the reaction toward a different segment of the S1/S0 conical intersection seam and results in nitrogen elimination and formation of carbenes.
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- Tomislav Piteša
- Department of Physical Chemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Bijenička cesta 54, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
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Zhu HY, Li QS. Insights into the Photoinduced Isomerization Mechanisms of a N,C-Chelate Organoboron Compound: A Theoretical Study. Chemphyschem 2020; 21:510-517. [PMID: 32040267 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202000049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2020] [Revised: 02/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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As the first discovered organoboron compound with photochromic property, B(ppy)Mes2 (ppy=2-phenylpyridine, Mes=mesityl) displays rich photochemistry that constitutes a solid foundation for wide applications in optoelectronic fields. In this work, we investigated the B(ppy)Mes2 to borirane isomerization mechanisms in the three lowest electronic states (S0 , S1 , and T1 ) based on the complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) and its second-order perturbation (CASPT2) methods combined with time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) calculations. Our results show that the photoisomerization in the S1 state is dominant, which is initiated by the cleavage of the B-Cppy bond. After overcoming a barrier of 0.5 eV, the reaction pathway leads to a conical intersection between the S1 and S0 states (S1 /S0 )x , from which the decay path may go back to the reactant B(ppy)Mes2 via a closed-shell intermediate (Int1-S0 ) or to the product borirane via a biradical intermediate (Int2-S0 ). Although triplet states are probably involved in the photoinduced process, the possibility of the photoisomerization in T1 state is very small owing to the weakly allowed S1 →T1 intersystem crossing and the high energy barrier (0.77 eV). In addition, we found the photoisomerization is thermally reversible, which is consistent with the experimental observations.
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- Hong-Yang Zhu
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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Li FP, Zhu HY, Li QS, Li ZS. Theoretical study on the regioselective photoisomerization of asymmetric N,C-chelate organoboron compounds. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:8376-8383. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cp00569b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Steric and electronic factors are responsible for the regioselective photoisomerization of B(ppy)MesPh based on detailed mechanisms obtained by quantum chemical calculations.
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- Fang-Ping Li
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Beijing Institute of Technology
- 100081 Beijing
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Beijing Institute of Technology
- 100081 Beijing
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Beijing Institute of Technology
- 100081 Beijing
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Beijing Institute of Technology
- 100081 Beijing
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Xu C, Gu FL, Zhu C. An excited-state Wolff rearrangement reaction of 5-diazo Meldrum's acid: an ab initio on-the-fly nonadiabatic dynamics simulation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:22681-22688. [PMID: 30137106 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp04164d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
A global switching on-the-fly trajectory surface hopping dynamics simulation at the 3SA-CASSCF(12,11)/6-31G* quantum level has been employed to probe the photo-induced Wolff rearrangement (WR) reaction of 5-diazo Meldrum's acid (DMA) within three low-lying electronic excited states. The present simulation predicted that the branching ratios for relaxing back to the ground state, isomerizing to diazirine, and reaction to ketene I via carbene I are 69% ± 0.1, 3% ± 0.4, and 28% ± 0.1, which are in excellent agreement with those obtained by the femtosecond spectroscopy experiment, 67%, 3% and 30%, respectively. In particular, the present simulation revealed that the major WR reaction to ketene I pathway is stepwise via the excited-state to carbene I (17.8% ± 0.2) and via the ground-state to carbene I (8.7% ± 0.2), and the minor pathway is concerted synchronous (1.5% ± 0.6). The photo-induced WR reaction of DMA has been quantitatively interpreted in terms of the distribution of extended seam surfaces as a function of CN dissociation bonds for two important conical intersections within three low-lying electronic excited states. Ultrafast dynamic time constants have been estimated to be about 500 fs ± 120 fs and 180 fs ± 80 fs for the stepwise and the concerted WR reaction to ketene I which are also in good agreement with those determined by the experiment. Therefore, the photo-induced excited-state WR reaction mechanism has been quantitatively revealed by the present real-time dynamics simulation.
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- Chao Xu
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry of Environment, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry & Environment of South China Normal University, Guangzhou 51006, P. R. China.
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Liu XY, Fang YG, Xie BB, Fang WH, Cui G. QM/MM nonadiabatic dynamics simulations on photoinduced Wolff rearrangements of 1,2,3-thiadiazole. J Chem Phys 2018; 146:224302. [PMID: 29166059 DOI: 10.1063/1.4984589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The photoinduced rearrangement reaction mechanism of 1,2,3-thiadiazole remains experimentally elusive. Two possible mechanisms have been proposed to date. The first is a stepwise mechanism via a thiocarbene intermediate; the second is an excited-state concerted rearrangement mechanism. Herein we have adopted both the electronic structure calculations and nonadiabatic dynamics simulations to study the photoinduced rearrangement reactions of 1,2,3-thiadiazole in the S2, S1, and S0 states in solution. On the basis of QM(CASPT2)/MM [quantum mechanics(complete active space self-consistent field second-order perturbation theory)/molecular mechanics] calculations, we have found that (1) the thiocarbene intermediate is not stable; thus, the stepwise mechanism should be unfavorable; (2) the excited-state decay from the S2 via S1 to S0 state is ultrafast and completed within ca. 200 fs; therefore, both the S2 and S1 states should not have a long enough time for the excited-state rearrangements. Instead, we have computationally proposed a modified photoinduced rearrangement mechanism. Upon irradiation, the S2 state is first populated (114.0 kcal/mol), followed by an ultrafast S2 → S1 → S0 excited-state decay along the S-N bond fission, which eventually leads to a very "hot" intermediate with the S-N bond broken (18.3 kcal/mol). Then, thermal rearrangements to thioketene, thiirene, and ethynethiol occur in a concerted asynchronous way. This mechanistic scenario has been verified by full-dimensional trajectory-based nonadiabatic dynamics simulations at the QM(CASPT2)/MM level. Finally, our present computational work provides experimentally interesting mechanistic insights into the photoinduced rearrangement reactions of cyclic and acyclic diazo compounds.
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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
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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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Conyard J, Heisler IA, Chan Y, Bulman Page PC, Meech SR, Blancafort L. A new twist in the photophysics of the GFP chromophore: a volume-conserving molecular torsion couple. Chem Sci 2018; 9:1803-1812. [PMID: 29675225 PMCID: PMC5892128 DOI: 10.1039/c7sc04091a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2017] [Accepted: 12/30/2017] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Dynamics of a nonplanar GFP chromophore are studied experimentally and theoretically. Coupled torsional motion is responsible for the ultrafast decay.
The simple structure of the chromophore of the green fluorescent protein (GFP), a phenol and an imidazolone ring linked by a methyne bridge, supports an exceptionally diverse range of excited state phenomena. Here we describe experimentally and theoretically the photochemistry of a novel sterically crowded nonplanar derivative of the GFP chromophore. It undergoes an excited state isomerization reaction accompanied by an exceptionally fast (sub 100 fs) excited state decay. The decay dynamics are essentially independent of solvent polarity and viscosity. Excited state structural dynamics are probed by high level quantum chemical calculations revealing that the fast decay is due to a conical intersection characterized by a twist of the rings and pyramidalization of the methyne bridge carbon. The intersection can be accessed without a barrier from the pre-twisted Franck–Condon structure, and the lack of viscosity dependence is due to the fact that the rings twist in the same direction, giving rise to a volume-conserving decay coordinate. Moreover, the rotation of the phenyl, methyl and imidazolone groups is coupled in the sterically crowded structure, with the methyl group translating the rotation of one ring to the next. As a consequence, the excited state dynamics can be viewed as a torsional couple, where the absorbed photon energy leads to conversion of the out-of-plane orientation from one ring to the other in a volume conserving fashion. A similar modification of the range of methyne dyes may provide a new family of devices for molecular machines, specifically torsional couples.
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- Jamie Conyard
- School of Chemistry , University of East Anglia , Norwich Research Park , Norwich NR4 7TJ , UK .
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- School of Chemistry , University of East Anglia , Norwich Research Park , Norwich NR4 7TJ , UK .
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- School of Chemistry , University of East Anglia , Norwich Research Park , Norwich NR4 7TJ , UK .
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- School of Chemistry , University of East Anglia , Norwich Research Park , Norwich NR4 7TJ , UK .
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- School of Chemistry , University of East Anglia , Norwich Research Park , Norwich NR4 7TJ , UK .
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- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi , Departament de Química , Facultat de Ciències , Universitat de Girona , C/ M. A. Capmany 69 , 17003 Girona , Spain .
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Peng XL, Migani A, Li QS, Li ZS, Blancafort L. Theoretical study of non-Hammett vs. Hammett behaviour in the thermolysis and photolysis of arylchlorodiazirines. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:1181-1188. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp07281c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Calculations show that the different Hammett behaviour of arylchlorodiazirines is due to different mechanisms in the ground and excited state.
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- Xing-Liang Peng
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Beijing Institute of Technology
- 100081 Beijing
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- Departament de Química Biològica i Modelització Molecular
- IQAC-CSIC
- Jordi Girona 18-26
- 08034 Barcelona
- Spain
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Beijing Institute of Technology
- 100081 Beijing
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Beijing Institute of Technology
- 100081 Beijing
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- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona
- Facultat de Ciències
- C/M. A. Capmany 69
- 17003 Girona
- Spain
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Ghosh J, Banerjee S, Bhattacharya A. AIMS simulation study of ultrafast electronically nonadiabatic chemistry of methyl azide and UV–VIS spectroscopic study of azido-based energetic plasticizer bis(1,3-diazido prop-2-yl)malonate. Chem Phys 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2017.07.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Bégué D, Santos-Silva H, Dargelos A, Wentrup C. Iminocyclohexadienylidenes: Carbenes or Diradicals? The Hetero-Wolff Rearrangement of Benzotriazoles to Cyanocyclopentadienes and 1H-Benzo[b]azirines. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:5998-6003. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b05325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Didier Bégué
- Institut des Sciences
Analytiques et de Physico-Chimie pour l’Environnement et les
Matériaux − IPREM, CNRS/Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, UMR 5254, 64000 Pau, France
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- Institut des Sciences
Analytiques et de Physico-Chimie pour l’Environnement et les
Matériaux − IPREM, CNRS/Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, UMR 5254, 64000 Pau, France
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- Institut des Sciences
Analytiques et de Physico-Chimie pour l’Environnement et les
Matériaux − IPREM, CNRS/Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, UMR 5254, 64000 Pau, France
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- School of Chemistry and
Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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Wu WJ, Li QS, Li ZS. Insights into the Thermal Eliminations and Photoeliminations of B,N-Heterocycles: A Theoretical Study. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:753-761. [PMID: 28045528 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b09495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Understanding the photochemistry of organoboron compounds is essential to expand optoelectronic applications. In this work, the complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF) and its second-order perturbation (CASPT2) methods combining with density functional theory (DFT) have been employed to investigate the elimination mechanisms of compound 6,7-dihydro-54-benzo[d]pyrido[2,1-f][1,2]azaborininr (B4) on the ground state (S0) and the first excited state (S1). B4 is one of the 1,2-B,N-heterocycles that undergo competitive thermal elimination and photoelimination depending on the substitution groups on the B atom and the chelate backbone, thus providing a high-selectivity synthesis strategy for luminescent compounds. Since the energy barrier from B4 to BH3-pyrido[1,2-a]isoindole (D1) and pyrido[1,2-a]isoindole (A1) on the ground state is lower than that from B4 to 54-benzo[d]pyrido[2,1-f][1,2]azaborininr (C4), the retraction ring reaction is expected to proceed with larger probability than the H2 elimination upon heating. On the contrary, photoelimination of H2 may take place easily due to the almost barrierless pathway on the S1 state. Remarkably, we have located an energetically available conical intersection (S1/S0)X-1, which allows for ultrafast S1 → S0 decay and subsequently generation of C4. Our results not only throw light on the experimental observations of the selectivity of thermal elimination and photoelimination but also provide detailed information on the excited state as instructional implications for further synthesis and application of B,N-embedded aromatics.
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- Wen-Jie Wu
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory for Chemical Power Source and Green Catalysis, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology , Beijing 100081, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory for Chemical Power Source and Green Catalysis, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology , Beijing 100081, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory for Chemical Power Source and Green Catalysis, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology , Beijing 100081, China
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Peng XL, Ding WL, Li QS, Li ZS. Theoretical insights into photo-induced Curtius rearrangement of chlorodifluoroacetyl azide. Org Chem Front 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7qo00083a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The mechanism of photo-induced Curtius rearrangement is a two-step reaction with a nitrene intermediate.
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- Xing-Liang Peng
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Beijing Institute of Technology
- Beijing 100081
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Beijing Institute of Technology
- Beijing 100081
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Beijing Institute of Technology
- Beijing 100081
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Beijing Institute of Technology
- Beijing 100081
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Migani A, Blancafort L. Excitonic Interfacial Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Mechanism in the Photocatalytic Oxidation of Methanol to Formaldehyde on TiO2(110). J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:16165-16173. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b11067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- Annapaola Migani
- Catalan
Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), CSIC and The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut
de Química Computacional i Catàlisi and Departament
de Química, Facultat de Ciències, Universitat de Girona, C/M. A. Campmany 69, 17003 Girona, Spain
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Arora R, Kakkar R. Theoretical study of the mechanism of the Wolff rearrangement of some diazocarbonyl compounds. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2016.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Li H, Migani A, Blancafort L, Li Q, Li Z. Early events in the photochemistry of 5-diazo Meldrum's acid: formation of a product manifold in C–N bound and pre-dissociated intersection seam regions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:30785-30793. [DOI: 10.1039/c6cp06290c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Photolysis of 5-diazo Meldrum's acid yields three different primary products in a sub-ps scale. High-level computations show that this is due to the presence of an extended seam of intersection associated to different reaction paths.
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- Huijing Li
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Beijing Institute of Technology
- 100081 Beijing
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- Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2)
- CSIC and The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology
- Campus UAB
- 08193 Barcelona
- Spain
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- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi and Departament de Química
- Universitat de Girona
- Facultat de Ciències
- 17003 Girona
- Spain
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Beijing Institute of Technology
- 100081 Beijing
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials
- Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
- Beijing Institute of Technology
- 100081 Beijing
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Ladinig M, Ramseier M, Wirz J. Photo-Wolff Rearrangement of 2-Diazo-1,2-naphthoquinone: Stern-Volmer Analysis of the Stepwise Reaction Pathway. Photochem Photobiol 2015; 91:678-83. [DOI: 10.1111/php.12341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2014] [Accepted: 08/31/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Manfred Ladinig
- Department of Chemistry; University of Basel; Basel Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry; University of Basel; Basel Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry; University of Basel; Basel Switzerland
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Ruiz-Barragan S, Morokuma K, Blancafort L. Conical Intersection Optimization Using Composed Steps Inside the ONIOM(QM:MM) Scheme: CASSCF:UFF Implementation with Microiterations. J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 11:1585-94. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Sergi Ruiz-Barragan
- Institut
de Química Computacional i Catàlisis and Departament
de Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus de Montilivi, 17071 Girona, Spain
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- Fukui
Institute for Fundamental Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8103, Japan
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- Institut
de Química Computacional i Catàlisis and Departament
de Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus de Montilivi, 17071 Girona, Spain
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Saab M, Doriol LJ, Lasorne B, Guérin S, Gatti F. A quantum dynamics study of the benzopyran ring opening guided by laser pulses. Chem Phys 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2014.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Blancafort L. Photochemistry and photophysics at extended seams of conical intersection. Chemphyschem 2014; 15:3166-81. [PMID: 25157686 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201402359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2014] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The role of extended seams of conical intersection in excited-state mechanisms is reviewed. Seams are crossings of the potential energy surface in many dimensions where the decay from the excited to the ground state can occur, and the extended seam is composed of different segments lying along a reaction coordinate. Every segment is associated with a different primary photoproduct, which gives rise to competing pathways. This idea is first illustrated for fulvene and ethylene, and then it is used to explain more complex cases such as the dependence of the isomerisation of retinal chromophore isomers on the protein environment, the dependence of the efficiency of the azobenzene photochemical switch on the wavelength of irradiation and the direction of the isomerisation, and the coexistence of different mechanisms in the photo-induced Wolff rearrangement of diazonaphthoquinone. The role of extended seams in the photophysics of the DNA nucleobases and the relationship between two-state seams and three-state crossings is also discussed. As an outlook, the design of optical control strategies based on the passage of the excited molecule through the seam is considered, and it is shown how the excited-state lifetime of fulvene can be modulated by shaping the energy of the seam.
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- Lluís Blancafort
- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus de Montilivi, 17071 Girona (Spain).
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Koch R, Blanch RJ, Wentrup C. Ketene–Ketene Interconversion. 6-Carbonylcyclohexa-2,4-dienone–Hepta-1,2,4,6-tetraene-1,7-dione–6-Oxocyclohexa-2,4-dienylidene and Wolff Rearrangement to Fulven-6-one. J Org Chem 2014; 79:6978-86. [DOI: 10.1021/jo5011087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Rainer Koch
- Institut
für Chemie and Center of Interface Science, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, P.O. Box 2503, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany
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- School
of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia
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- School
of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia
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Steinbacher A, Roeding S, Brixner T, Nuernberger P. Ultrafast photofragment ion spectroscopy of the Wolff rearrangement in 5-diazo Meldrum's acid. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:7290-8. [PMID: 24618843 DOI: 10.1039/c3cp55365e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We investigate the gas-phase photochemistry of 5-diazo Meldrum's acid (DMA), a photoactive compound used in lithography, by femtosecond photofragment ion spectroscopy. Transient-absorption studies in solution had revealed an ultrafast intramolecular Wolff rearrangement to a ketene after UV excitation, followed by reactions which also involve the solvent. Due to the absence of solvent molecules in this gas-phase study, we are able to focus purely on the photochemistry of the Wolff rearrangement and subsequent reaction steps. The observation of the time-resolved photofragment ion signals allows us to discriminate the dynamics of ketene and carbene products. By identification of the different possible molecular origins for a certain fragment ion signal, the time scale of the Wolff rearrangement and the lifetime of the ketene product are inferred. We further identified experimental signatures of a second Wolff rearrangement emanating from the carbene product, as had been conjectured indirectly for this molecule from pyrolysis studies.
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- Andreas Steinbacher
- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany.
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Joubert-Doriol L, Lasorne B, Lauvergnat D, Meyer HD, Gatti F. A generalised vibronic-coupling Hamiltonian model for benzopyran. J Chem Phys 2014; 140:044301. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4861226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Senadheera SN, Evans AS, Toscano JP, Givens RS. 2-Diazo-1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethanone: a versatile photochemical and synthetic reagent. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2013; 13:324-41. [PMID: 24305682 DOI: 10.1039/c3pp50305d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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α-Diazo arylketones are well-known substrates for Wolff rearrangement to phenylacetic acids through a ketene intermediate by either thermal or photochemical activation. Likewise, α-substituted p-hydroxyphenacyl (pHP) esters are substrates for photo-Favorskii rearrangements to phenylacetic acids by a different pathway that purportedly involves a cyclopropanone intermediate. In this paper, we show that the photolysis of a series of α-diazo-p-hydroxyacetophenones and p-hydroxyphenacyl (pHP) α-esters both generate the identical rearranged phenylacetates as major products. Since α-diazo-p-hydroxyacetophenone (1a, pHP N2) contains all the necessary functionalities for either Wolff or Favorskii rearrangement, we were prompted to probe this intriguing mechanistic dichotomy under conditions favorable to the photo-Favorskii rearrangement, i.e., photolysis in hydroxylic media. An investigation of the mechanism for conversion of 1a to p-hydroxyphenyl acetic acid (4a) using time-resolved infrared (TRIR) spectroscopy clearly demonstrates the formation of a ketene intermediate that is subsequently trapped by solvent or nucleophiles. The photoreaction of 1a is quenched by oxygen and sensitized by triplet sensitizers and the quantum yields for 1a-c range from 0.19 to a robust 0.25. The lifetime of the triplet, determined by Stern-Volmer quenching, is 31 ns with a rate for appearance of 4a of k = 7.1 × 10(6) s(-1) in aq. acetonitrile (1 : 1 v : v). These studies establish that the primary rearrangement pathway for 1a involves ketene formation in accordance with the photo-Wolff rearrangement. Furthermore we have also demonstrated the synthetic utility of 1a as an esterification and etherification reagent with a variety of substituted α-diazo-p-hydroxyacetophenones, using them as synthons for efficiently coupling it to acids and phenols to produce pHP protect substrates.
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Ruiz-Barragan S, Blancafort L. Photophysics of fulvene under the non-resonant stark effect. Shaping the conical intersection seam. Faraday Discuss 2013; 163:497-512; discussion 513-43. [PMID: 24020219 DOI: 10.1039/c3fd20155d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We introduce a mechanistic strategy to control the excited state lifetime of fulvene based on shaping the topography of an extended seam of intersection with the non-resonant dynamic Stark effect. Fulvene has a very short excited state lifetime due to an energetically accessible seam of intersection which lies along the methylene torsion coordinate, and the initial decay occurs at the seam segment around the planar conical intersection structure. We have followed a three-step approach to simulate the control. First, we have calculated the effect of a non-resonant electric field on the potential energy surface at the ab initio level, including the field in a self-consistent way. The relative energy of the planar segment of the seam is increased by the non-resonant field. In the second step we simulate the control carrying out MCTDH quantum dynamics propagations under a static non-resonant field to derive the main control mechanisms. At moderately intense fields (epsilon < or = 0.03 a.u.) the decay is faster as compared to the field free case because the vibrational overlap between the excited and ground state vibrational functions is increased. However, at more intense fields (epsilon = 0.04 a.u.) the planar conical intersection is energetically inaccessible and the decay occurs at a slower time scale, at the segment of the seam with more twisted geometries. In the third step, the control over the dynamics is exerted with a non-resonant dynamic field. The acceleration of the decay due to the improved vibrational overlap does not occur, but the decay can be made slower with a dynamic field of 0.08 a.u. The results show the viability of our approach to control the photophysics shaping the topology of the conical intersection seam, and they prove that the extended nature of the seam is crucial for simulating and understanding the control.
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- Sergi Ruiz-Barragan
- Institut de Quimica Computacional and Departament de Química, Universitat de Girona, Campus de Montilivi, 17071 Girona, Spain
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Mori T, Martínez TJ. Exploring the Conical Intersection Seam: The Seam Space Nudged Elastic Band Method. J Chem Theory Comput 2013; 9:1155-63. [DOI: 10.1021/ct300892t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Toshifumi Mori
- PULSE Institute and
Department
of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United
States
- SLAC National Accelerator
Laboratory,
2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- PULSE Institute and
Department
of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United
States
- SLAC National Accelerator
Laboratory,
2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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Cui G, Thiel W. Photoinduced Ultrafast Wolff Rearrangement: A Non-Adiabatic Dynamics Perspective. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201207628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Cui G, Thiel W. Photoinduced ultrafast Wolff rearrangement: a non-adiabatic dynamics perspective. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2012; 52:433-6. [PMID: 23212961 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201207628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2012] [Revised: 11/01/2012] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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One reaction, two routes: full-dimensional non-adiabatic dynamics simulations shed light on the ultrafast photoinduced Wolff rearrangement in an α-diazocarbonyl compound. The trajectories show both concerted asynchronous and stepwise processes leading to the corresponding ketene.
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- Ganglong Cui
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
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Liu YJ, Roca-Sanjuán D, Lindh R. Computational Photochemistry and Photophysics: the state of the art. PHOTOCHEMISTRY 2012. [DOI: 10.1039/9781849734882-00042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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This review starts with the most basic concepts in photochemistry and photophysics, followed by a chronological introduction of theoretical methods and relevant applications in the history of computational photochemistry, along with the authors’ comments on the methodologies currently available for photochemical studies. Recent advances in the field are next summarized and discussed, focusing separately on methodology and computational techniques and some highlighted applied works carried out during the last two years on the topics of photodissociations, photostability, photodimerizations, photoisomerizations, proton/hydrogen transfer, photodecarboxylations, charge transport, bioexcimers, chemiluminescence and bioluminescence. We finish this review by conclusions and an outlook of the future.
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- Ya-Jun Liu
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry Beijing Normal University Beijing China
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- Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Theoretical Chemistry Programme Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Theoretical Chemistry Programme Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden
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Nenov A, de Vivie-Riedle R. Conical intersection seams in polyenes derived from their chemical composition. J Chem Phys 2012; 137:074101. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4745183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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