scholarly journals Photochemical Reactions of Aromatic Compounds. XLVI. Stereochemical Reaction Courses in the Photolytic Ring-Cleavage Reactions of Diarylcyclobutanes: Implications of Conformation-Controlled Orbital Interactions in the Excited-State Chemistry

1989 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 1951-1959 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chyongjin Pac ◽  
Kazuyoshi Go-an ◽  
Shozo Yanagida
Keyword(s):  
Excited State ◽  
Aromatic Compounds ◽  
Photochemical Reactions ◽  
Ring Cleavage ◽  
Orbital Interactions ◽  
Cleavage Reactions

scholarly journals Organic Photochemical Reactions. XXXI. Photosensitized Ring-Cleavage Reactions of 2,2-Diaryloxetanes by Aromatic Nitriles

1989 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenichi Nakabayashi ◽  
Jun-ichi Kojima ◽  
Kimiko Tanabe ◽  
Masahide Yasuda ◽  
Kensuke Shima
Keyword(s):  
Photochemical Reactions ◽  
Ring Cleavage ◽  
Aromatic Nitriles ◽  
Cleavage Reactions

Nanosecond Photodynamics Simulations of a Cis-Trans Isomerization Are Enabled by Machine Learning

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingbai Li ◽  
Patrick Reiser ◽  
André Eberhard ◽  
Pascal Friederich ◽  
Steven Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Excited State ◽  
Adaptive Sampling ◽  
Computational Cost ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Absolute Error ◽  
Photochemical Reactions ◽  
Computational Techniques ◽  
Full Potential

<p>Photochemical reactions are being increasingly used to construct complex molecular architectures with mild and straightforward reaction conditions. Computational techniques are increasingly important to understand the reactivities and chemoselectivities of photochemical isomerization reactions because they offer molecular bonding information along the excited-state(s) of photodynamics. These photodynamics simulations are resource-intensive and are typically limited to 1–10 picoseconds and 1,000 trajectories due to high computational cost. Most organic photochemical reactions have excited-state lifetimes exceeding 1 picosecond, which places them outside possible computational studies. Westermeyr <i>et al.</i> demonstrated that a machine learning approach could significantly lengthen photodynamics simulation times for a model system, methylenimmonium cation (CH<sub>2</sub>NH<sub>2</sub><sup>+</sup>).</p><p>We have developed a Python-based code, Python Rapid Artificial Intelligence <i>Ab Initio</i> Molecular Dynamics (PyRAI<sup>2</sup>MD), to accomplish the unprecedented 10 ns <i>cis-trans</i> photodynamics of <i>trans</i>-hexafluoro-2-butene (CF<sub>3</sub>–CH=CH–CF<sub>3</sub>) in 3.5 days. The same simulation would take approximately 58 years with ground-truth multiconfigurational dynamics. We proposed an innovative scheme combining Wigner sampling, geometrical interpolations, and short-time quantum chemical trajectories to effectively sample the initial data, facilitating the adaptive sampling to generate an informative and data-efficient training set with 6,232 data points. Our neural networks achieved chemical accuracy (mean absolute error of 0.032 eV). Our 4,814 trajectories reproduced the S<sub>1</sub> half-life (60.5 fs), the photochemical product ratio (<i>trans</i>: <i>cis</i> = 2.3: 1), and autonomously discovered a pathway towards a carbene. The neural networks have also shown the capability of generalizing the full potential energy surface with chemically incomplete data (<i>trans</i> → <i>cis</i> but not <i>cis</i> → <i>trans</i> pathways) that may offer future automated photochemical reaction discoveries.</p>

Excited State Tracking During the Relaxation of Coordination Compounds

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Sanz García ◽  
Martial Boggio-Pasqua ◽  
Ilaria Ciofini ◽  
Marco Campetella
Keyword(s):  
Excited State ◽  
Excited States ◽  
Potential Energy Surfaces ◽  
Photochemical Reactions ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Electronic Excited States ◽  
Ruthenium Nitrosyl ◽  
State Tracking ◽  
Energy Surfaces ◽  
Electronic Wavefunction

<div>The ability to locate minima on electronic excited states (ESs) potential energy surfaces (PESs) both in the case of bright and dark states is crucial for a full understanding of photochemical reactions. This task has become a standard practice for small- to medium-sized organic chromophores thanks to the constant developments in the field of computational photochemistry. However, this remains a very challenging effort when it comes to the optimization of ESs of transition metal complexes (TMCs), not only due to the presence of several electronic excited states close in energy, but also due to the complex nature of the excited states involved. In this article, we present a simple yet powerful method to follow an excited state of interest during a structural optimization in the case of TMC, based on the use of a compact hole-particle representation of the electronic transition, namely the natural transition orbitals (NTOs). State tracking using NTOs is unambiguously accomplished by computing the mono-electronic wavefunction overlap between consecutive steps of the optimization. Here, we demonstrate that this simple but robust procedure works not only in the case of the cytosine but also in the case of the ES optimization of a ruthenium-nitrosyl complex which is very problematic with standard approaches.</div>

Reductive Dehalogenation of Environmental Contaminants: A Critical Review

1989 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Atom ◽  
Aromatic Compounds ◽  
Reductive Dechlorination ◽  
Halogen Atom ◽  
Environmental Contaminants ◽  
Methanogenic Bacteria ◽  
Photochemical Reactions ◽  
Reductive Dehalogenation ◽  
Iron Porphyrins ◽  
Aliphatic Compounds

Abstract It is generally recognized that reductive processes are more important than oxidative ones in transforming, degrading and mineralizing many environmental contaminants. One process of particular importance is reductive dehalogenation, i.e., the replacement of a halogen atom (most commonly a chlorine atom) by a hydrogen atom. A number of different mechanisms are involved in these reactions. Photochemical reactions probably play a role in some instances. Aliphatic compounds such as chloroethanes, partly aliphatic compounds such as DDT, and alicyclic compounds such as hexachlorocyclohexane are readily dechlorinated in the laboratory by reaction with reduced iron porphyrins such as hematin. Many of these are also dechlorinated by cultures of certain microorganisms, probably by the same mechanism. Such compounds, with a few exceptions, have been found to undergo reductive dechlorination in the environment. Aromatic compounds such as halobenzenes, halophenols and halobenzoic acids appear not to react with reduced iron porphyrins. Some of these however undergo reductive dechlorination both in the environment and in the laboratory. The reaction is generally associated with methanogenic bacteria. There is evidence for the existence of a number of different dechlorinating enzymes specific for different isomers. Recently it has been found that many components of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), long considered to be virtually totally resistant to environmental degradation, may be reductively dechlorinated both in the laboratory and in nature. These findings suggest that many environmental contaminants may prove to be less persistent than was previously feared.

Cleavage of the Epimines of 1,6-Anhydrohexoses with Fluoride Anion

2005 ◽  
Vol 70 (12) ◽  
pp. 2075-2085 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Kroutil ◽  
Klára Jeništová
Keyword(s):  
Fluoride Anion ◽  
Ring Cleavage ◽  
Protecting Group ◽  
Reaction Conditions ◽  
Aziridine Ring ◽  
Cleavage Reactions ◽  
Derivatives Of ◽  
Fluoro Derivatives

Aziridine ring cleavage reactions of five N-nosylepimines (2-6) having D-talo, D-galacto, D-manno, and D-allo configurations with potassium hydrogendifluoride under various reaction conditions have been performed. The cleavage regioselectively afforded diaxial isomers of vicinal amino-fluoro derivatives of 1,6-anhydro-β-D-gluco- and mannopyranose 7-11 in 51-94% yields. Removal of 2-nitrobenzenesulfonyl protecting group with benzenethiol has been attempted in the case of compound 10.

scholarly journals Minimal Optimized Effective Potentials for Density Functional Theory Studies on Excited-State Proton Dissociation

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 679
Author(s):  
Pouya Partovi-Azar ◽  
Daniel Sebastiani
Keyword(s):  
Density Functional Theory ◽  
Excited State ◽  
Proton Transfer ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Photochemical Reactions ◽  
Transfer Energy ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Effective Potentials ◽  
Proton Dissociation ◽  
Dissociation Curves

Recently, a new method [P. Partovi-Azar and D. Sebastiani, J. Chem. Phys. 152, 064101 (2020)] was proposed to increase the efficiency of proton transfer energy calculations in density functional theory by using the T1 state with additional optimized effective potentials instead of calculations at S1. In this work, we focus on proton transfer from six prototypical photoacids to neighboring water molecules and show that the reference proton dissociation curves obtained at S1 states using time-dependent density functional theory can be reproduced with a reasonable accuracy by performing T1 calculations at density functional theory level with only one additional effective potential for the acidic hydrogens. We also find that the extra effective potentials for the acidic hydrogens neither change the nature of the T1 state nor the structural properties of solvent molecules upon transfer from the acids. The presented method is not only beneficial for theoretical studies on excited state proton transfer, but we believe that it would also be useful for studying other excited state photochemical reactions.

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