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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 14, Issue 35, Pages 12193-12201Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2cp41817g
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- German Science Foundation DFG via the Collaborative Research Center [SFB677]
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As an important theoretical step towards unraveling the mechanistic details of the photochemical switching processes in molecules of the fulgide type, we carried out a large-scale, full-dimensional computational study of the ring closure reaction of E-iPr-furylfulgide. Simulated static UV spectra and femtosecond transient spectra are in good agreement with their experimental counterparts. Using surface-hopping photodynamics simulations, we identify three major de-excitation pathways and their interplay. The dominant photochemical pathway (70% of the trajectories) allows for ring closure, while the two minor pathways involve E-Z double bond isomerization rather than cyclization. The relative abundance of the pathways is rationalized by arguments linking structure with dynamics. It should be emphasized, however, that the distinction into three pathways is only a simplified interpretational model, since the actual dynamical trajectories do not strictly follow these idealized pathways but often show mixed behaviour, evolving along two or three of them during the course of the simulation.
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