Solvation dynamics in polar solvents and imidazolium ionic liquids: failure of linear response approximations
Esther Heid1, Christian Schröder
1University of Vienna, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Computational Biological Chemistry, Währingerstraße 19, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. christian.schroeder@univie.ac.at.
Abstract:
This study presents the large scale computer simulations of two common fluorophores, N-methyl-6-oxyquinolinium betaine and coumarin 153, in five polar or ionic solvents. The validity of linear response approximations to calculate the time-dependent Stokes shift is evaluated in each system. In most studied systems linear response theory fails. In ionic liquids the magnitude of the overall response is largely overestimated, and linear response theory is not able to capture the individual contributions of cations and anions. In polar liquids, the timescales of solvation dynamics are often not correctly reproduced. These observations are complemented by a detailed analysis of Gaussian statistics including higher order correlation functions, variance of the energy gap distribution and its time evolution. The analysis of higher order correlation functions was found to be not suitable to predict a failure of linear response theory. Further analysis of radial distribution functions and hydrogen bonds in the ground and excited state, as well as the time evolution of the number of hydrogen bonds after solute excitation reveal an influence of solvent structure in some of the studied systems.
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