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Published on: May 27, 2020
Nonradiative deexcitation dynamics of 9H-adenine: an OM2 surface hopping study
1Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz 1, D-45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
Abstract:
The nonradiative relaxation of 9H-adenine was studied at the semiempirical OM2/MR-CI level using the surface-hopping approach. Geometry optimizations of energy minima and conical intersections as well as single-point calculations of excitation energies at critical points were performed to characterize the relevant potential energy surfaces of 9H-adenine and to assess the accuracy of the OM2 results. Surface-hopping calculations were performed to describe the nonradiative dynamics of 9H-adenine after vertical excitation into the optically active state. They showed that the deexcitation process is mainly governed by a two-step relaxation consisting of an ultrashort component and a longer component. These findings compare well with experimental results from time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy.
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