| Autor: |
Falahati, Konstantin, Hamerla, Carsten, Huix-Rotllant, Miquel, Burghardt, Irene |
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Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP); 5/14/2018, Vol. 20 Issue 18, p12483-12492, 10p |
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We examine the mechanism of ultrafast internal conversion between the B band (Soret band) and the Q band in porphine (H2P), the prototypical free-base porphyrin, using electronic structure studies and on-the-fly surface-hopping nonadiabatic dynamics. Our study highlights the crucial role of dark states within the N band which are found to mediate B/Q state transfer, necessitating a treatment beyond Gouterman's classic four-orbital model. The sequential B → N → Q pathway dominates largely over the direct B → Q pathway which is found to be energetically unfavorable. Potential energy surface cuts and conical intersections between excited states are determined by TDDFT and validated by CASSCF/CASPT2 and XMCQDPT2 calculations. Both the static analysis and on-the-fly surface-hopping calculations suggest a pathway which involves minor structural deformations via in-plane vibrations. The B → N conversion is a barrierless adiabatic process occurring within ∼20 fs, while the subsequent N → Q conversion occurs via a conical intersection within ∼100 fs, in agreement with time-resolved experiments for porphine and related free base porphyrins. Furthermore, evidence for both sequential and direct transfer to the Qx and Qy states is obtained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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