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Cavaletto SM, Nam Y, Rouxel JR, Keefer D, Yong H, Mukamel S. Attosecond Monitoring of Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics by Transient X-ray Transmission Spectroscopy. J Chem Theory Comput 2023; 19:2327-2339. [PMID: 37015111 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/06/2023]
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Tracing the evolution of molecular coherences can provide a direct, unambiguous probe of nonadiabatic molecular processes, such as the passage through conical intersections of electronic states. Two techniques, attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy (ATAS) and Transient Redistribution of Ultrafast Electronic Coherences in Attosecond Raman Signals (TRUECARS), have been used or proposed for monitoring nonadiabatic molecular dynamics. Both techniques employ the transmission of a weak attosecond extreme-ultraviolet or X-ray probe to interrogate the molecule at controllable time delays with respect to an optical pump, thereby extracting dynamical information from transient spectral features. The connection between these techniques has not been firmly established yet. In this theoretical study, we provide a unified description of both transient transmission techniques, establishing their relationship as limits of the same pump-probe spectroscopy technique for different pulse parameter regimes. We demonstrate this by quantum dynamical simulations of thiophenol photodissociation and show how complementary coherence information can be revealed by the two techniques.
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- Stefano M Cavaletto
- Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, United States
- Université de Lyon, UJM-Saint-Étienne, CNRS, IOGS, Laboratoire Hubert Curien UMR 5516, Saint-Étienne 42023, France
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California 92697, United States
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Kim J, Woo KC, Kim KK, Kim SK. πσ*-Mediated Nonadiabatic Tunneling Dynamics of Thiophenols in S 1: The Semiclassical Approaches. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:9594-9604. [PMID: 36534791 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c05861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The S-H bond tunneling predissociation dynamics of thiophenol and its ortho-substituted derivatives (2-fluorothiophenol, 2-methoxythiophenol, and 2-chlorothiphenol) in S1 (ππ*) where the H atom tunneling is mediated by the nearby S2 (πσ*) state (which is repulsive along the S-H bond extension coordinate) have been investigated in a state-specific way using the picosecond time-resolved pump-probe spectroscopy for the jet-cooled molecules. The effects of the specific vibrational mode excitations and the SH/SD substitutions on the S-H(D) bond rupture tunneling dynamics have been interrogated, giving deep insights into the multidimensional aspects of the S1/S2 conical intersection, which also shapes the underlying adiabatic tunneling potential energy surfaces (PESs). The semiclassical tunneling rate calculations based on the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approximation or Zhu-Nakamura (ZN) theory have been carried out based on the ab initio PESs calculated in the (one, two, or three) reduced dimensions to be compared with the experiment. Though the quantitative experimental results could not be reproduced satisfactorily by the present calculations, the qualitative trends among different molecules in terms of the behavior of the tunneling rate versus the (adiabatic) barrier height or the number of PES dimensions could be rationalized. Most interestingly, the H/D kinetic isotope effect observed in the tunneling rate could be much better explained by the ZN theory compared to the WKB approximation, indicating that the nonadiabatic coupling matrix elements should be invoked for understanding the tunneling dynamics taking place in the proximity of the conical intersection.
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- Junggil Kim
- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon34141, Republic of Korea
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Ashfold MNR, Kim SK. Non-Born-Oppenheimer effects in molecular photochemistry: an experimental perspective. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2022; 380:20200376. [PMID: 35341307 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2020.0376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/02/2021] [Accepted: 06/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Non-adiabatic couplings between Born-Oppenheimer (BO)-derived potential energy surfaces are now recognized as pivotal in describing the non-radiative decay of electronically excited molecules following photon absorption. This opinion piece illustrates how non-BO effects provide photostability to many biomolecules when exposed to ultraviolet radiation, yet in many other cases are key to facilitating 'reactive' outcomes like isomerization and bond fission. The examples are presented in order of decreasing molecular complexity, spanning studies of organic sunscreen molecules in solution, through two families of heteroatom containing aromatic molecules and culminating with studies of isolated gas phase H2O molecules that afford some of the most detailed insights yet available into the cascade of non-adiabatic couplings that enable the evolution from photoexcited molecule to eventual products. This article is part of the theme issue 'Chemistry without the Born-Oppenheimer approximation'.
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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An EOM-CCSD-based neural network diabatic potential energy matrix for the 1πσ*-mediated photodissociation of thiophenol. CHINESE J CHEM PHYS 2022. [DOI: 10.1063/1674-0068/cjcp2201016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Kim J, Woo KC, Kim KK, Kang M, Kim SK. Tunneling dynamics dictated by the multidimensional conical intersection seam in the πσ*‐mediated photochemistry of heteroaromatic molecules. B KOREAN CHEM SOC 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/bkcs.12453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Junggil Kim
- Department of Chemistry, KAIST Daejeon Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST Daejeon Republic of Korea
- Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Nanyang Technological University Singapore Singapore
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST Daejeon Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST Daejeon Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST Daejeon Republic of Korea
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Li C, Hou S, Xie C. Three-dimensional diabatic potential energy surfaces of thiophenol with neural networks. CHINESE J CHEM PHYS 2021. [DOI: 10.1063/1674-0068/cjcp2110196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- Chaofan Li
- Institute of Modern Physics, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
- Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Theoretical Physics Frontiers, Xi’an 710127, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
- Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Theoretical Physics Frontiers, Xi’an 710127, China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
- Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Theoretical Physics Frontiers, Xi’an 710127, China
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Fındık V, Fındık BK, Aviyente V, Monari A. Origins of the photoinitiation capacity of aromatic thiols as photoinitiatiors: a computational study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:24377-24385. [PMID: 34676839 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp04345e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In this work, we report the photophysical properties of three thiol derivatives, commonly used as photoinitiators in thiol-ene free radical polymerization, the ultimate goal being to rationalize the main reason behind the photoinitiation efficiency. For this aim, time dependent density functional theory is used to simulate the absorption spectra of alkyl thiol (R-SH), thiophenol (PhSH) and p-(trifluoromethyl) thiophenol (p-CF3PhSH), describe their excited state topologies, and explore their potential energy surfaces along the S-H dissociation. Excited state calculations have shown that the S-H photolysis is achieved through the triplet excited states following intersystem crossing from the originally populated singlet manifolds. More specifically, while in aromatic thiol derivatives dissociation is mainly triplet-state mediated, the first excited singlet state and first triplet state of alkyl thiol are both dissociative and hence potentially capable of generating the photoinduced radical species. We have also justified the experimental findings concerning the photoinitiator efficiency considering both their potential energy surface topologies and the absorption intensity, in the lowest energy region.
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- Volkan Fındık
- Univesité de Lorraine, CNRS, LPCT, F54000 Nancy, France. .,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Marmara University, 34722 Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, 34342, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Chemistry, Bogazici University, 34342, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Univesité de Lorraine, CNRS, LPCT, F54000 Nancy, France. .,Université de Paris and CNRS, ITODYS, F-75006, Paris, France.
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Kim J, Woo KC, Kim SK. Femtosecond Wavepacket Dynamics Reveals the Molecular Structures in the Excited (S 1) and Cationic (D 0) States. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:6629-6635. [PMID: 34310149 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c04976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Molecular structures in the electronically excited (S1) and cationic (D0) states of 2-fluorothioanisole (2-FTA) have been precisely refined from the real-time dynamics of the femtosecond (fs) wavepacket prepared by the coherent excitation of the Franck-Condon active out-of-plane torsional modes in the S1 ← S0 transition at 285 nm. The simulation to reproduce the experiment in terms of the beating frequencies gives the nonplanar geometry of 2-FTA in S1, where the out-of-plane dihedral angle (φ) of the S-CH3 moiety is 51° with respect to the molecular plane. The behavior of the fs wavepacket in terms of the amplitudes and phases with the change of the probe (ionization) wavelength (λprobe = 300-330 nm) provides the otherwise veiled structure of the cationic D0 state. While the 2-FTA cation adopts the planar geometry (φ = 0°) at the global minimum, it is found to have a vertical minimum at φ ≈ 135° from the perspective of the D0 ← S1 vertical transition. Ab initio calculations support the experiment quite well although the simulation using the model potentials could improve the match with the experiment, giving the new interpretation for the previously disputed photoelectron spectroscopic results.
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- Junggil Kim
- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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Esposito VJ, Liu T, Wang G, Caracciolo A, Vansco MF, Marchetti B, Karsili TNV, Lester MI. Photodissociation Dynamics of CH 2OO on Multiple Potential Energy Surfaces: Experiment and Theory. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:6571-6579. [PMID: 34314179 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c03643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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UV excitation of the CH2OO Criegee intermediate across most of the broad span of the (B 1A')-(X 1A') spectrum results in prompt dissociation to two energetically accessible asymptotes: O (1D) + H2CO (X 1A1) and O (3P) + H2CO (a 3A''). Dissociation proceeds on multiple singlet potential energy surfaces that are coupled by two regions of conical intersection (CoIn). Velocity map imaging (VMI) studies reveal a bimodal total kinetic energy release (TKER) distribution for the O (1D) + H2CO (X 1A1) products with the major and minor components accounting for ca. 40% and ca. 20% on average of the available energy (Eavl), respectively. The unexpected low TKER component corresponds to highly internally excited H2CO (X 1A1) products accommodating ca. 80% of Eavl. Full dimensional trajectory calculations suggest that the bimodal TKER distribution of the O (1D) + H2CO (X 1A1) products originates from two different dynamical pathways: a primary pathway (69%) evolving through one CoIn region to products and a smaller component (20%) sampling both CoIn regions enroute to products. Those that access both CoIn regions likely give rise to the more highly internally excited H2CO (X 1A1) products. The remaining trajectories (11%) dissociate to O (3P) + H2CO (a 3A'') products after traversing through both CoIn regions. The complementary experimental and theoretical investigation provides insight on the photodissociation of CH2OO via multiple dissociation pathways through two regions of CoIn that control the branching and energy distributions of products.
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- Vincent J Esposito
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70504, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana 70504, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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Ray J, Ramesh SG. N-H photodissociation dynamics of electronically excited aniline: a three dimensional time-dependent quantum wavepacket study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:15727-15748. [PMID: 34280953 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp01990b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We have simulated the dynamics of 1πσ* state-mediated nonadiabatic N-H bond dissociation in photo-excited aniline (C6H5NH2). A three electronic state diabatic model potential, involving the ground, 1ππ*, and 1πσ* diabatic states, and focussing on the NH2 degrees of freedom alone is constructed using XMS-CASPT2 energies. Using a kinetic energy operator in the polyspherical framework, wavepacket dynamics in three vibrational modes, viz. NH stretch, NH2 out-of-plane wag and torsion, is carried out using the Chebyshev propagation scheme. For optically bright 1ππ* excitation, the wavepacket can access the 1πσ*/1ππ* and 1ππ/1πσ* conical intersections that lie en route to dissociation. For both intersections, NH2 out-of-plane wag and torsional motions are the most dominant coupling coordinates. Carrying out dynamics with initial wavepackets varying in excitation in the three degrees of freedom, we probe their roles in the evolution of the state populations, probability densities, and product branching for the NH dissociation process.
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- Jyotirmoy Ray
- Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.
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- Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.
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Woo KC, Kim SK. Real-Time Tunneling Dynamics through Adiabatic Potential Energy Surfaces Shaped by a Conical Intersection. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:6730-6736. [PMID: 32787219 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Dynamic shaping of the adiabatic tunneling barrier in the S-H bond extension coordinate of several ortho-substituted thiophenols has been found to be mediated by low-frequency out-of-plane vibrational modes, which are parallel to the coupling vector of the branching plane comprising the conical intersection. The S-H predissociation tunneling rate (k) measured when exciting to the S1 zero-point level of 2-methoxythiophenol (44 ps)-1 increases abruptly, to k ≈ (22 ps)-1, at the energy corresponding to excitation of the 152 cm-1 out-of-plane vibrational mode and then falls back to k ≈ (40 ps)-1 when the in-plane mode is excited at 282 cm-1. Similar resonance-like peaks in plots of S1 tunneling rate versus internal energy are observed when exciting the corresponding low-frequency out-of-plane modes in the S1 states of 2-fluorothiophenol and 2-chlorothiophenol. This experiment provides clear-cut evidence for dynamical "shaping" of the lower-lying adiabatic potential energy surfaces by the higher-lying conical intersection seam, which dictates the multidimensional tunneling dynamics.
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- Kyung Chul Woo
- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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Cho D, Rouxel JR, Mukamel S. Stimulated X-ray Resonant Raman Spectroscopy of Conical Intersections in Thiophenol. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:4292-4297. [PMID: 32370507 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The conical intersection dynamics of thiophenol is studied by computing the stimulated X-ray resonant Raman spectroscopy signals. The hybrid probing field is constructed of a hard X-ray narrowband femtosecond pulse combined with an attosecond broadband X-ray pulse to provide optimal spectral and temporal resolutions for electronic coherences in the level crossing region. The signal carries phase information about the valence-core electronic coupling in the vicinity of conical intersections. Two conical intersections occurring during the course of the S-H dissociation dynamics can be distinguished by their valence-core transition frequencies computed at the complete active space self-consistent field level. The X-ray pulse is tuned such that the Raman transition at the first conical intersection between 1πσ* and 11ππ* involves higher core levels, while the Raman transition at the second conical intersection between 1πσ* and S0 involves the lowest core level in the sulfur K-edge.
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- Daeheum Cho
- Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States
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The conical intersection dynamics of thiophenol is studied theoretically using the stimulated X-ray Raman imaging (SXRI) technique. SXRI employs a hard X-ray narrowband/broadband hybrid probe field and provides a real-time and real-space image of the passage through conical intersections. The signal, calculated using the minimal-coupling radiation/matter Hamiltonian, carries the phase information, and the real-space image of the transition charge density can be reconstructed by its Fourier transform. The two conical intersections (S2/S1 (11ππ*/1πσ*) and S1/S0 (1πσ*/S0)) can be distinguished and identified by the diffraction patterns in the level crossing regimes.
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- Daeheum Cho
- Department of Chemistry , University of California , Irvine , California 92697-2025 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , University of California , Irvine , California 92697-2025 , United States
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Lim JS, You HS, Kim SY, Kim J, Park YC, Kim SK. Vibronic structure and predissociation dynamics of 2-methoxythiophenol (S 1): The effect of intramolecular hydrogen bonding on nonadiabatic dynamics. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:244305. [PMID: 31893886 DOI: 10.1063/1.5134519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Vibronic spectroscopy and the S-H bond predissociation dynamics of 2-methoxythiophenol (2-MTP) in the S1 (ππ*) state have been investigated for the first time. Resonant two-photon ionization and slow-electron velocity map imaging (SEVI) spectroscopies have revealed that the S1-S0 transition of 2-MTP is accompanied with the planar to the pseudoplanar structural change along the out-of-plane ring distortion and the tilt of the methoxy moiety. The S1 vibronic bands up to their internal energy of ∼1000 cm-1 are assigned from the SEVI spectra taken via various S1 vibronic intermediate states with the aid of ab initio calculations. Intriguingly, Fermi resonances have been identified for some vibronic bands. The S-H bond breakage of 2-MTP occurs via tunneling through an adiabatic barrier under the S1/S2 conical intersection seam, and it is followed by the bifurcation into either the adiabatic or nonadiabatic channel at the S0/S2 conical intersection where the diabatic S2 state (πσ*) is unbound with respect to the S-H bond elongation coordinate, giving the excited (Ã) or ground (X̃) state of the 2-methoxythiophenoxy radical, respectively. Surprisingly, the nonadiabatic transition probability at the S0/S2 conical intersection, estimated from the velocity map ion images of the nascent D fragment from 2-MTP-d1 (2-CH3O-C6H4SD) at the S1 zero-point energy level, is found to be exceptionally high to give the X̃/Ã product branching ratio of 2.03 ± 0.20, which is much higher than the value of ∼0.8 estimated for the bare thiophenol at the S1 origin. It even increases to 2.33 ± 0.17 at the ν45 2 mode (101 cm-1) before it rapidly decays to 0.69 ± 0.05 at the S1 internal energy of about 2200 cm-1. This suggests that the strong intramolecular hydrogen bonding of S⋯D⋯OCH3 in 2-MTP at least in the low S1 internal energy region should play a significant role in localizing the reactive flux onto the conical intersection seam. The minimum energy pathway calculations (second-order coupled-cluster resolution of the identity or time-dependent-density functional theory) of the adiabatic S1 state suggest that the intimate dynamic interplay between the S-H bond cleavage and intramolecular hydrogen bonding could be crucial in the nonadiabatic surface hopping dynamics taking place at the conical intersection.
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- Jean Sun Lim
- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, South Korea
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Neville SP, Mirmiran A, Worth GA, Schuurman MS. Electron transfer in photoexcited pyrrole dimers. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:164304. [PMID: 31675891 DOI: 10.1063/1.5120006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Following on from previous experimental and theoretical work [Neville et al., Nat. Commun. 7, 11357 (2016)], we report the results of a combined electronic structure theory and quantum dynamics study of the excited state dynamics of the pyrrole dimer following excitation to its first two excited states. Employing an exciton-based analysis of the Ã(π3s/σ*) and B̃(π3s/3p/σ*) states, we identify an excited-state electron transfer pathway involving the coupling of the Ã(π3s/σ*) and B̃(π3s/3p/σ*) states and driven by N-H dissociation in the B̃(π3s/3p/σ*) state. This electron transfer mechanism is found to be mediated by vibronic coupling of the B̃ state, which has a mixed π3s/3p Rydberg character at the Franck-Condon point, to a high-lying charge transfer state of the πσ* character by the N-H stretch coordinate. Motivated by these results, quantum dynamics simulations of the excited-state dynamics of the pyrrole dimer are performed using the multiconfigurational time-dependent Hartree method and a newly developed model Hamiltonian. It is predicted that the newly identified electron transfer pathway will be open following excitation to both the Ã(π3s/σ*) and B̃(π3s/3p/σ*) states and may be the dominant relaxation pathway in the latter case.
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- Simon P Neville
- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, 10 Marie Curie, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada
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- National Research Council of Canada, 100 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0R6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, 10 Marie Curie, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada
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Zhang L, Truhlar DG, Sun S. Full-dimensional three-state potential energy surfaces and state couplings for photodissociation of thiophenol. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:154306. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5124870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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- Linyao Zhang
- School of Energy Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, People’s Republic of China
- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- School of Energy Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, People’s Republic of China
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Lim JS, You HS, Han S, Kim SK. Photodissociation Dynamics of Ortho-Substituted Thiophenols at 243 nm. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:2634-2639. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b00803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Jean Sun Lim
- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 34141, Republic of Korea
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Lim JS, You HS, Kim SY, Kim SK. Experimental observation of nonadiabatic bifurcation dynamics at resonances in the continuum. Chem Sci 2019; 10:2404-2412. [PMID: 30881669 PMCID: PMC6385646 DOI: 10.1039/c8sc04859b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2018] [Accepted: 01/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The surface crossing of bound and unbound electronic states in multidimensional space often gives rise to resonances in the continuum. This situation happens in the πσ*-mediated photodissociation reaction of 2-fluorothioanisole; optically-bright bound S1 (ππ*) vibrational states of 2-fluorothioanisole are strongly coupled to the optically-dark S2 (πσ*) state, which is repulsive along the S-CH3 elongation coordinate. It is revealed here that the reactive flux prepared at such resonances in the continuum bifurcates into two distinct reaction pathways with totally different dynamics in terms of energy disposal and nonadiabatic transition probability. This indicates that the reactive flux in the Franck-Condon region may either undergo nonadiabatic transition funneling through the conical intersection from the upper adiabat, or follow a low-lying adiabatic path, along which multiple dynamic saddle points may be located. Since 2-fluorothioanisole adopts a nonplanar geometry in the S1 minimum energy, the quasi-degenerate S1/S2 crossing seam in the nonplanar geometry, which lies well below the planar S1/S2 conical intersection, is likely responsible for the efficient vibronic coupling, especially in the low S1 internal energy region. As the excitation energy increases, bound-to-continuum coupling is facilitated with the aid of intramolecular vibrational redistribution, along many degrees of freedom spanning the large structural volume. This leads to the rapid domination of the continuum character of the reactive flux. This work reports direct and robust experimental observations of the nonadiabatic bifurcation dynamics of the reactive flux occurring at resonances in the continuum of polyatomic molecules.
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- Jean Sun Lim
- Department of Chemistry , KAIST , Daejeon 34141 , Republic of Korea .
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- Department of Chemistry , KAIST , Daejeon 34141 , Republic of Korea .
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- Department of Chemistry , KAIST , Daejeon 34141 , Republic of Korea .
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- Department of Chemistry , KAIST , Daejeon 34141 , Republic of Korea .
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Zhu GZ, Qian CH, Wang LS. Dipole-bound excited states and resonant photoelectron imaging of phenoxide and thiophenoxide anions. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:164301. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5049715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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- Guo-Zhu Zhu
- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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Baeck KK, An H. Practical approximation of the non-adiabatic coupling terms for same-symmetry interstate crossings by using adiabatic potential energies only. J Chem Phys 2018; 146:064107. [PMID: 28201877 DOI: 10.1063/1.4975323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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A very simple equation, FijApp=[(∂2(Via-Vja)/∂Q2)/(Via-Vja)]1/2/2, giving a reliable magnitude of non-adiabatic coupling terms (NACTs, Fij's) based on adiabatic potential energies only (Via and Vja) was discovered, and its reliability was tested for several prototypes of same-symmetry interstate crossings in LiF, C2, NH3Cl, and C6H5SH molecules. Our theoretical derivation starts from the analysis of the relationship between the Lorentzian dependence of NACTs along a diabatization coordinate and the well-established linear vibronic coupling scheme. This analysis results in a very simple equation, α=2κ/Δc, enabling the evaluation of the Lorentz function α parameter in terms of the coupling constant κ and the energy gap Δc (Δc=|Via-Vja|Qc ) between adiabatic states at the crossing point QC. Subsequently, it was shown that QC corresponds to the point where FijApp exhibit maximum values if we set the coupling parameter as κ=[(Via-Vja)⋅(∂2(Via-Vja)/∂Q2)]Qc1/2/2. Finally, we conjectured that this relation could give reasonable values of NACTs not only at the crossing point but also at other geometries near QC. In this final approximation, the pre-defined crossing point QC is not required. The results of our test demonstrate that the approximation works much better than initially expected. The present new method does not depend on the selection of an ab initio method for adiabatic electronic states but is currently limited to local non-adiabatic regions where only two electronic states are dominantly involved within a nuclear degree of freedom.
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- Kyoung Koo Baeck
- Department of Chemistry, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangwon-do 25457, South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Gangneung-Wonju National University, Gangwon-do 25457, South Korea
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Lin GSM, Xie C, Xie D. Nonadiabatic Effect in Photodissociation Dynamics of Thiophenol via the 1ππ* State. J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:5375-5382. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b03460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Guang-Shuang-Mu Lin
- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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Zhang L, Truhlar DG, Sun S. Electronic spectrum and characterization of diabatic potential energy surfaces for thiophenol. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:28144-28154. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp05215h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We present an accurate simulation of the UV spectrum and a diabatization of three singlet potential surfaces along four coordinates.
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- Linyao Zhang
- School of Energy Science and Engineering
- Harbin Institute of Technology
- Harbin 150001
- P. R. China
- Department of Chemistry
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- Department of Chemistry
- Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute
- University of Minnesota
- Minneapolis
- USA
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- School of Energy Science and Engineering
- Harbin Institute of Technology
- Harbin 150001
- P. R. China
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Lin GSM, Xie C, Xie D. Three-Dimensional Diabatic Potential Energy Surfaces for the Photodissociation of Thiophenol. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:8432-8439. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b09070] [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]
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- Guang-Shuang-Mu Lin
- Institute
of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic
Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, United States
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- Institute
of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic
Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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Kim SY, Lee J, Kim SK. Conformer specific nonadiabatic reaction dynamics in the photodissociation of partially deuterated thioanisoles (C 6H 5S-CH 2D and C 6H 5S-CHD 2). Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017; 19:18902-18912. [PMID: 28707684 DOI: 10.1039/c7cp03036c] [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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In this work, we have investigated nonadiabatic dynamics in the vicinity of conical intersections for predissociation reactions of partially deuterated thioanisole molecules: C6H5S-CH2D and C6H5S-CHD2. Each isotopomer has two distinct rotational conformers according to the geometrical position of D or H of the methyl moiety with respect to the molecular plane for C6H5S-CH2D or C6H5S-CHD2, respectively, as spectroscopically characterized in our earlier report [J. Lee, S.-Y. Kim and S. K. Kim, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2014, 118, 1850]. Since identification and separation of two different rotational conformers of each isotopomer have been unambiguously done, we could interrogate nonadiabatic dynamics of thioanisole in terms of both H/D substitutional and conformational structural effects. Nonadiabatic transition probability, estimated by the experimentally measured branching ratio of the nonadiabatically produced ground-state channel giving C6H5S·(X[combining tilde]) versus the adiabatic excited-state channel leading to the C6H5S·(Ã) radical, shows resonance-like increases at symmetric (νs) or asymmetric (7a) S-CH2D (or S-CHD2) stretching mode excitation in S1 for all conformational isomers of two isotopomers. However, absolute probabilistic value of the nonadiabatic transition is found to vary quite drastically depending on different conformers and isotopomers. The experimental finding that nonadiabatic transition dynamics are very sensitive to subtle changes in the nuclear configuration within the Franck-Condon region induced by the H/D substitution indicates that the S1/S2 conical intersection seam is quite narrowly defined in the multi-dimensional nuclear configurational space as far as the S-methyl predissociation reaction is concerned. In order to understand the relation between molecular structure and nonadiabaticity of reaction, potential energy surfaces near S1/S2 conical intersections have been theoretically calculated along νs and 7a normal mode coordinates for all conformational isomers. Slow-electron velocity map imaging (SEVI) spectroscopy is employed to unravel the extent of intramolecular vibrational redistribution (IVR) for particular mode excitations of S1, providing insights into the dynamic interplay between IVR and nonadiabatic transition probability near the conical intersection seam.
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- So-Yeon Kim
- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea.
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- Nuclear Chemistry Research Division, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon 305-353, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea.
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Marchetti B, Karsili TNV, Cipriani M, Hansen CS, Ashfold MNR. The near ultraviolet photodissociation dynamics of 2- and 3-substituted thiophenols: Geometric vs. electronic structure effects. J Chem Phys 2017; 147:013923. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4980035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Ashfold MN, Murdock D, Oliver TA. Molecular Photofragmentation Dynamics in the Gas and Condensed Phases. Annu Rev Phys Chem 2017; 68:63-82. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-052516-050756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Exciting a molecule with an ultraviolet photon often leads to bond fission, but the final outcome of the bond cleavage is typically both molecule and phase dependent. The photodissociation of an isolated gas-phase molecule can be viewed as a closed system: Energy and momentum are conserved, and the fragmentation is irreversible. The same is not true in a solution-phase photodissociation process. Solvent interactions may dissipate some of the photoexcitation energy prior to bond fission and will dissipate any excess energy partitioned into the dissociation products. Products that have no analog in the corresponding gas-phase study may arise by, for example, geminate recombination. Here, we illustrate the extent to which dynamical insights from gas-phase studies can inform our understanding of the corresponding solution-phase photochemistry and how, in the specific case of photoinduced ring-opening reactions, solution-phase studies can in some cases reveal dynamical insights more clearly than the corresponding gas-phase study.
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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Ingle RA, Karsili TNV, Dennis GJ, Staniforth M, Stavros VG, Ashfold MNR. Extreme population inversion in the fragments formed by UV photoinduced S-H bond fission in 2-thiophenethiol. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:11401-10. [PMID: 27056403 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp01593j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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H atom loss following near ultraviolet photoexcitation of gas phase 2-thiophenethiol molecules has been studied experimentally, by photofragment translational spectroscopy (PTS) methods, and computationally, by ab initio electronic structure calculations. The long wavelength (277.5 ≥ λ(phot) ≥ 240 nm) PTS data are consistent with S-H bond fission after population of the first (1)πσ* state. The partner thiophenethiyl (R) radicals are formed predominantly in their first excited Ã(2)A' state, but assignment of a weak signal attributable to H + R(X˜(2)A'') products allows determination of the S-H bond strength, D0 = 27,800 ± 100 cm(-1) and the Ã-X˜ state splitting in the thiophenethiyl radical (ΔE = 3580 ± 100 cm(-1)). The deduced population inversion between the à and X˜ states of the radical reflects the non-planar ground state geometry (wherein the S-H bond is directed near orthogonal to the ring plane) which, post-photoexcitation, is unable to planarise sufficiently prior to bond fission. This dictates that the dissociating molecules follow the adiabatic fragmentation pathway to electronically excited radical products. π* ← π absorption dominates at shorter excitation wavelengths. Coupling to the same (1)πσ* potential energy surface (PES) remains the dominant dissociation route, but a minor yield of H atoms attributable to a rival fragmentation pathway is identified. These products are deduced to arise via unimolecular decay following internal conversion to the ground (S0) state PES via a conical intersection accessed by intra-ring C-S bond extension. The measured translational energy disposal shows a more striking change once λ(phot) ≤ 220 nm. Once again, however, the dominant decay pathway is deduced to be S-H bond fission following coupling to the (1)πσ* PES but, in this case, many of the evolving molecules are deduced to have sufficiently near-planar geometries to allow passage through the conical intersection at extended S-H bond lengths and dissociation to ground (X˜) state radical products. The present data provide no definitive evidence that complete ring opening can compete with fast S-H bond fission following near UV photoexcitation of 2-thiophenethiol.
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- Rebecca A Ingle
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, UK BS8 1TS.
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, UK BS8 1TS.
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, UK BS8 1TS.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Library Road, Coventry, UK CV4 7AL
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Library Road, Coventry, UK CV4 7AL
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, UK BS8 1TS.
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You HS, Han S, Yoon JH, Lim JS, Lee J, Kim SY, Ahn DS, Lim JS, Kim SK. Structure and dynamic role of conical intersections in the πσ*-mediated photodissociation reactions. INT REV PHYS CHEM 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/0144235x.2015.1072364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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An H, Choi H, Lee YS, Baeck KK. Factors Affecting the Branching Ratio of Photodissociation: Thiophenol Studied through Quantum Wavepacket Dynamics. Chemphyschem 2015; 16:1529-34. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201500060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Reva I, Nowak MJ, Lapinski L, Fausto R. Hydrogen atom transfer reactions in thiophenol: photogeneration of two new thione isomers. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:4888-98. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp04125a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The photochemistry of thiophenol monomers confined in cryogenic argon matrices is dominated by hydrogen atom transfer reactions and leads to the formation of two new thione isomers, which were characterized in this work by infrared spectroscopy and theoretical calculations.
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- Igor Reva
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Coimbra
- 3004-535 Coimbra
- Portugal
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- Institute of Physics
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- 02-668 Warsaw
- Poland
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- Institute of Physics
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- 02-668 Warsaw
- Poland
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Coimbra
- 3004-535 Coimbra
- Portugal
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Han S, You HS, Kim SY, Kim SK. Dynamic Role of the Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding in Nonadiabatic Chemistry Revealed in the UV Photodissociation Reactions of 2-Fluorothiophenol and 2-Chlorothiophenol. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:6940-9. [DOI: 10.1021/jp505699w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Songhee Han
- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Republic of Korea
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Han S, Lim JS, Yoon JH, Lee J, Kim SY, Kim SK. Conical intersection seam and bound resonances embedded in continuum observed in the photodissociation of thioanisole-d3. J Chem Phys 2014; 140:054307. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4863449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [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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Tuna D, Sobolewski AL, Domcke W. Electronically excited states and photochemical reaction mechanisms of β-glucose. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:38-47. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp52359d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Karsili TNV, Wenge AM, Marchetti B, Ashfold MNR. Symmetry matters: photodissociation dynamics of symmetrically versus asymmetrically substituted phenols. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:588-98. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp53450b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Zhang Y, Oliver TAA, Das S, Roy A, Ashfold MNR, Bradforth SE. Exploring the Energy Disposal Immediately After Bond-Breaking in Solution: The Wavelength-Dependent Excited State Dissociation Pathways of para-Methylthiophenol. J Phys Chem A 2013; 117:12125-37. [DOI: 10.1021/jp405160n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [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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- Yuyuan Zhang
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0482, United States
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- School of Chemistry, Cantocks Close, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, U.K
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0482, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0482, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0482, United States
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Choi H, Park YC, Lee YS, An H, Baeck KK. Theoretical study of the extremely small torsional barriers of thiophenol in the ground and the first excited electronic states. Chem Phys Lett 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2013.06.056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Ramesh SG, Domcke W. A multi-sheeted three-dimensional potential-energy surface for the H-atom photodissociation of phenol. Faraday Discuss 2013; 163:73-94; discussion 117-38. [DOI: 10.1039/c3fd00006k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Murdock D, Harris SJ, Karsili TNV, Greetham GM, Clark IP, Towrie M, Orr Ewing AJ, Ashfold MNR. Photofragmentation Dynamics in Solution Probed by Transient IR Absorption Spectroscopy: πσ*-Mediated Bond Cleavage in p-Methylthiophenol and p-Methylthioanisole. J Phys Chem Lett 2012; 3:3715-3720. [PMID: 26291101 DOI: 10.1021/jz301755p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The 267 nm photodissociation dynamics of p-methylthiophenol (p-MePhSH) and p-methylthioanisole (p-MePhSMe) dissolved in CD3CN have been probed by subpicosecond time-resolved broadband infrared spectroscopy. Prompt (τ < 1 ps) S-H bond fission in p-MePhSH is confirmed by monitoring the time-evolution of the parent (S0) bleach and the transient absorption of the p-MePhS products. Vibrational relaxation of the latter occurs on a ∼8.5 ps time scale, and ∼40% of the total radical population undergoes geminate recombination over a ∼150 ps time scale, yielding (mainly) the p-MePhSH(S0) parent. S-Me bond fission following photoexcitation to the S1 state of p-MePhSMe occurs over a much longer timescale, with a rate that is very dependent on the degree of vibrational excitation within S1. The various findings are compared and contrasted with results from complementary gas-phase photofragmentation studies of both molecules, which are shown to provide a valuable starting point for describing the solution-phase dynamics.
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- Daniel Murdock
- †School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- †School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- †School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- ‡Central Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- ‡Central Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- ‡Central Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- †School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- †School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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Oliver TAA, King GA, Tew DP, Dixon RN, Ashfold MNR. Controlling Electronic Product Branching at Conical Intersections in the UV Photolysis of para-Substituted Thiophenols. J Phys Chem A 2012; 116:12444-59. [DOI: 10.1021/jp308804d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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Hadden DJ, Roberts GM, Karsili TNV, Ashfold MNR, Stavros VG. Competing 1πσ* mediated dynamics in mequinol: O–H versus O–CH3 photodissociation pathways. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:13415-28. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cp42289a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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