Triplets in the cradle: ultrafast dynamics in a cyclic disulfide
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| author | Merrick, James Hutton, Lewis Cooper, Joseph C. Vallance, Claire Kirrander, Adam |
| author_facet | Merrick, James Hutton, Lewis Cooper, Joseph C. Vallance, Claire Kirrander, Adam |
| contents | The effect of spin-orbit coupling on the "Newton's cradle"-type photodynamics in the cyclic disulfide 1,2-dithiane (C4H8S2) is investigated theoretically. We consider excitation by a 290 nm laser pulse and simulate the subsequent ultrafast nonadiabatic dynamics by propagating surface-hopping trajectories using SA(4|4)-CASSCF(6,4)-level electronic structure calculations with a modified ANO-R1 basis set. Two simulations are run: one with singlet states only, and one with both singlet and triplet states. All trajectories are propagated for 1 ps with a 0.5 fs timestep. Comparison of the simulations suggests that the presence of triplet states depletes the singlet state population, with the net singlet and triplet populations at long times tending towards their statistical limit. Crucially, the triplet states also hinder the intramolecular thiyl radical recombination pathway via the efficient intersystem crossing between the singlet and triplet state manifolds. |
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| spellingShingle | Triplets in the cradle: ultrafast dynamics in a cyclic disulfide Merrick, James Hutton, Lewis Cooper, Joseph C. Vallance, Claire Kirrander, Adam Chemical Physics The effect of spin-orbit coupling on the "Newton's cradle"-type photodynamics in the cyclic disulfide 1,2-dithiane (C4H8S2) is investigated theoretically. We consider excitation by a 290 nm laser pulse and simulate the subsequent ultrafast nonadiabatic dynamics by propagating surface-hopping trajectories using SA(4|4)-CASSCF(6,4)-level electronic structure calculations with a modified ANO-R1 basis set. Two simulations are run: one with singlet states only, and one with both singlet and triplet states. All trajectories are propagated for 1 ps with a 0.5 fs timestep. Comparison of the simulations suggests that the presence of triplet states depletes the singlet state population, with the net singlet and triplet populations at long times tending towards their statistical limit. Crucially, the triplet states also hinder the intramolecular thiyl radical recombination pathway via the efficient intersystem crossing between the singlet and triplet state manifolds. |
| title | Triplets in the cradle: ultrafast dynamics in a cyclic disulfide |
| topic | Chemical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20055 |