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THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY ACCOUNTS
Volume 123, Issue 3-4, Pages 273-286Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s00214-009-0527-y
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Uracil; Photoexcitation; Non-adiabatic decay; Potential energy surfaces; Quantum dynamics
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Uracil and its derivatives strongly absorb UV light but photodamage is hampered through effective non-adiabatic decay channels. As a first step towards a quantum dynamical (QD) study of the decay route of the photoexcited pi pi* state to the underlying n pi* state, here we present our procedure to build a reliable reduced-dimensionality model of the decay process, and we discuss its theoretical foundation. We established the three most important nuclear coordinates for the decay process and we computed the S (1) and S (2) excited-state potential energy surfaces of Uracil and 5-fluoro-Uracil in acetonitrile and in water at TD-DFT level, describing the solvent in the frame of polarizable continuum model. Through a property-based diabatization we obtained the diabatic pi pi* and n pi* states' energies and coupling and we fitted them to analytical functions of the nuclear coordinates. We show how these diabatic models can be utilized for QD simulations of the pi pi* -> n pi* decay.
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