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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://dspace.ffh.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/551
Title: Deactivation via ring opening: A quantum chemical study of the excited states of furan and comparison to thiophene
Authors: Gavrilov, Nemanja 
Salzmann, Susanne
Marian, Christel M.
Keywords: Electronic structure calculations;Heterocycles;Photochemistry;Quantum chemistry;Ring opening
Issue Date: 16-Jun-2008
Journal: Chemical Physics
Abstract: 
Minimum nuclear arrangements of the ground and low-lying excited electronic states of furan were obtained by means of (time dependent) Kohn-Sham density functional theory. A combined density functional/multi-reference configuration interaction method (DFT/MRCI) was employed to compute the spectral properties at these points. Multiple minima were found on the first excited singlet (S1) potential energy hypersurface with electronic structures S1, S2, S3 corresponding to the 11A2 (π → 3s-Ryd), 11B2 (π → π*), and 21A1 (π → π*) states in the vertical absorption spectrum, respectively. In analogy to recently published studies in thiophene [S. Salzmann, M. Kleinschmidt, J. Tatchen, R. Weinkauf, C.M. Marian, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 10 (2008) 380] a deactivation mechanism for electronically excited furan was detected that involves the opening of the pentacyclic ring. We found a nearly barrierless relaxation pathway from the Franck-Condon region along a C-O bond-breaking coordinate. Hereby the initially excited 1B2 (π → π*) state undergoes a conical intersection with a 1B1 (π → σ*) state. The system can return to the electronic ground state through a second conical intersection of the 1(π → σ*) state before the minimum of that B1 state is reached. © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
URI: https://dspace.ffh.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/551
ISSN: 0301-0104
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2008.01.060
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