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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 622-626Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02792
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- Universite de Lorraine
- French CNRS
- Spanish MINECO/FEDER [CTQ2014-58624-P, JCI-2012-13431, MDM-2015-0538]
- Generalitat Valenciana [GV2015-057]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P25827]
- COST action [CM1405]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P 25827] Funding Source: researchfish
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P25827] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
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The photochemistry of benzophenone, a paradigmatic organic molecule for photosensitization, was investigated by means of surface-hopping ab initio molecular dynamics. Different mechanisms were found to be relevant within the first 600 fs after excitation; the long debated direct (S-1 -> T-1) and indirect (S-1 -> T-2 -> T-1) mechanisms for population of the low-lying triplet state are both possible, with the latter being prevalent. Moreover, we established the existence of a kinetic equilibrium between the two triplet states, never observed before. This fact implies that a significant fraction of the overall population resides in T-2, eventually allowing one to revisit the usual spectroscopic assignment proposed by transient absorption spectroscopy. This finding is of particular interest for photocatalysis as well as for DNA damages studies because both T-1 and T-2 channels are, in principle, available for benzophenone-mediated photoinduced energy transfer toward DNA.
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