A Theoretical Study on the Photodissociation of Acetone: Insight into the Slow Intersystem Crossing and Exploration of Nonadiabatic Pathways to the Ground State

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (12) ◽  
pp. 1841-1845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoshi Maeda ◽  
Koichi Ohno ◽  
Keiji Morokuma
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomislav Rovis ◽  
Benjamin D. Ravetz ◽  
Nicholas E. S. Tay ◽  
Candice Joe ◽  
Melda Sezen-Edmonds ◽  
...  

We describe a new family of catalysts that undergo direct ground state singlet to excited state triplet excitation with IR light, leading to photoredox catalysis without the energy waste associated with intersystem crossing. The finding allows a mole scale reaction in batch using infrared irradiation.


2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (24) ◽  
pp. 1635-1642
Author(s):  
MIAN LIU ◽  
WENDONG MA ◽  
ZIJUN LI

We conducted a theoretical study on the properties of a polaron with electron-LO phonon strong-coupling in a cylindrical quantum dot under an electric field using linear combination operator and unitary transformation methods. The changing relations between the ground state energy of the polaron in the quantum dot and the electric field intensity, restricted intensity, and cylindrical height were derived. The numerical results show that the polar of the quantum dot is enlarged with increasing restricted intensity and decreasing cylindrical height, and with cylindrical height at 0 ~ 5 nm , the polar of the quantum dot is strongest. The ground state energy decreases with increasing electric field intensity, and at the moment of just adding electric field, quantum polarization is strongest.


1987 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 1923 ◽  
Author(s):  
ID Rae ◽  
ID Rae ◽  
A Staffa ◽  
A Staffa ◽  
AC Diz ◽  
...  

In order to obtain a deeper insight into the title effect, several compounds with an F atom very close to a C-H of a nearby functional group were synthesized and the relevant couplings measured. The most conspicuous case was that of 8-fluoro-2-hydroxynaphthalene-1-carbaldehyde where a close proximity between the F and H atoms is the result of fluorine-oxygen repulsion and the formation of an intramolecular hydrogen bond between the hydroxyl and carbonyl groups. The experimental four-bond J(F,CHO) coupling is 26.2 Hz. A compound very similar to this one, but without the OH group, was chosen on which to perform a polarization propagator analysis of the through-space (TS) coupling pathways, at the RPA-INDO level. The expression for the TS coupling in terms of the projected polarization propagator and perturbators was numerically analysed. It is found that this coupling is completely dominated by a TS component of the Fermi contact (FC) term, the main features of which are: ( i ) It decays exponentially with the F-H distance; (ii) Its main contribution comes from an electron excitation involving the F lone-pair, the C-H bond of the CHO moiety and its corresponding antibonding orbital;(iii) The π-type lone-pair does not contribute to the TS coupling pathway of the FC term.


2007 ◽  
Vol 111 (42) ◽  
pp. 10834-10848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Knippenberg ◽  
Balázs Hajgató ◽  
Jean-Pierre François ◽  
Michael S. Deleuze

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