Perspective on Theoretical and Experimental Advances in Atmospheric Photochemistry

BFE Curchod, AJ Orr-Ewing - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2024 - ACS Publications
Research that explores the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere is central to the current
understanding of global challenges such as climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion …

Simulations of photoinduced processes with the exact factorization: State of the art and perspectives

LM Ibele, ES Gil, EV Arribas, F Agostini - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
This Perspective offers an overview of the applications of the exact factorization of the
electronnuclear wavefunction to the domain of theoretical photochemistry, where the aim is …

Ab Initio Multiple Spawning nonadiabatic dynamics with different CASPT2 flavors: A fully open-source PySpawn/OpenMolcas interface

LM Ibele, A Memhood, BG Levine… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We introduce an interface between PySpawn, a simulation package to run ab initio multiple
spawning (AIMS) nonadiabatic dynamics, and OpenMolcas, a software package to perform …

Which electronic structure method to choose in trajectory surface hopping dynamics simulations? Azomethane as a case study

TV Papineau, D Jacquemin… - The Journal of Physical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nonadiabatic dynamics simulations have become a standard approach to explore
photochemical reactions. Such simulations require underlying potential energy surfaces and …

Using a multistate mapping approach to surface hopping to predict the ultrafast electron diffraction signal of gas-phase cyclobutanone

L Hutton, A Moreno Carrascosa, AW Prentice… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Using the recently developed multistate mapping approach to surface hopping (multistate
MASH) method combined with SA (3)-CASSCF (12, 12)/aug-cc-pVDZ electronic structure …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting the photodynamics of cyclobutanone triggered by a laser pulse at 200 nm and its MeV-UED signals—A trajectory surface hopping and XMS …

J Janoš, JP Figueira Nunes, D Hollas… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
This work is part of a prediction challenge that invited theoretical/computational chemists to
predict the photochemistry of cyclobutanone in the gas phase, excited at 200 nm by a laser …

Prediction challenge: First principles simulation of the ultrafast electron diffraction spectrum of cyclobutanone

J Suchan, F Liang, AS Durden… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Computer simulation has long been an essential partner of ultrafast experiments, allowing
the assignment of microscopic mechanistic detail to low-dimensional spectroscopic data …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction through quantum dynamics simulations: Photo-excited cyclobutanone

O Bennett, A Freibert, KE Spinlove… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum dynamics simulations are becoming a standard tool for simulating photo-excited
molecular systems involving a manifold of coupled states, known as non-adiabatic …

Modeling Photodissociation: Quantum Dynamics Simulations of Methanol

LLE Cigrang, GA Worth - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2024 - ACS Publications
A comprehensive computational study of the gas-phase photodissociation dynamics of
methanol is presented. Using a multiconfigurational active space based method (RASSCF) …

Prediction of photodynamics of 200 nm excited cyclobutanone with linear response electronic structure and ab initio multiple spawning

D Hait, D Lahana, OJ Fajen, ASP Paz… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Simulations of photochemical reaction dynamics have been a challenge to the theoretical
chemistry community for some time. In an effort to determine the predictive character of …