期刊
MOLECULES
卷 26, 期 19, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules26196021
关键词
electrostatic embedding; QM/MM; conical intersections; nucleobases; thymine
资金
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche through the project BIO-MAGNET [ANR-19-CE29-0018]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche through MULTICROSS [ANR-19-CE29-0018]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-19-CE29-0018] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
The study investigates the electrostatic effects of methanol and water on thymine's excited states, revealing that solvent molecules define the branching plane of the S0/S1 intersection. The electrostatic embedding TD-DFT/MM method allows for a fast exploration of potential energy surfaces and a qualitative understanding of thymine's photophysics in solvent droplets, despite the incorrect topology of the ground/excited state intersections.
Thymine photochemistry is important for understanding DNA photodamage. In the gas phase, thymine undergoes a fast non-radiative decay from S 2 to S 1 . In the S 1 state, it gets trapped for several picoseconds until returning to the ground-state S 0 . Here, we explore the electrostatic effects of nanomeric droplets of methanol and water on the excited states of thymine. For this purpose, we develop and implement an electrostatic embedding TD-DFT/MM method based on a QM/MM coupling defined through electrostatic potential fitting charges. We show that both in methanol and water, the mechanism is similar to the gas phase. The solvent molecules participate in defining the branching plane of S 0 /S 1 intersection and have a negligible effect on the S 1 /S 2 intersection. Despite the wrong topology of the ground/excited state intersections, electrostatic embedding TD-DFT/MM allows for a fast exploration of the potential energy surfaces and a qualitative picture of the photophysics of thymine in solvent droplets.
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