Journal
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 112, Issue 40, Pages 9675-9683Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp804368p
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- Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
- Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD)
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
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Ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations for the excited-state hydrogen transfer (ESHT) reaction of 7-azaindole (7AI-(H2O)(n); n = 1, 2) clusters in the gas phase and in water are presented. The effective fragment potential (EFP) is employed to model the surrounding water molecules. The AIMD simulations for 7AI-H2O and 7AI-(H2O)(2) clusters show an asynchronous hydrogen transfer at t similar to 50 fs after the photoexcitation. While the ESHT mechanism for 7AI-H2O in water does not change appreciably compared with that in the gas phase, the AIMD simulations on 7AI-(H2O)(2) in water solution exhibit two different mechanisms. Since the tautomer form is lower in energy compared to the normal form in the S, state, 7AI and (H2O)(n) fragments separate from each other after the ESHT. With the use of the results of the AIMD trajectories, the minimum energy conical intersection point in the tautomer region has also been located.
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