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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 122, Issue 25, Pages 5555-5562Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b02426
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Funding
- Martin & Michele Cohen Fund for Science - Professional Staff Congress [60719-00 48]
- Research Cluster Grant from Silicon Mechanics [SM-2015-289297]
- City University of New York
- PSC-CUNY Award - Professional Staff Congress [60719-00 48]
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Salicylideneaniline (SA) is a prototype for excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) reactions in nonplanar molecules. It is generally understood that the dominant photochemical pathway in this molecule is ESIPT followed by nonradiative decay due to twisting about its phenolic bond. However, the presence of a secondary internal conversion pathway resulting from frustrated proton transfer remains a matter of contention. We perform a detailed nonadiabatic dynamics simulation of SA and definitively identify the existence of both reaction pathways, thereby showing the presence of a secondary photochemical pathway and providing insight into the nature of ESIPT dynamics in molecules with nonplanar ground-state geometries.
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