Photoprotection: extending lessons learned from studying natural sunscreens to the design of artificial sunscreen constituents

LA Baker, B Marchetti, TNV Karsili… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Evolution has ensured that plants and animals have developed effective protection
mechanisms against the potentially harmful effects of incident ultraviolet radiation (UVR) …

πσ* excited states in molecular photochemistry

MNR Ashfold, GA King, D Murdock, MGD Nix… - Physical Chemistry …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
The last few years have seen a surge in interest (both theoretical and experimental) in the
photochemistry of heteroaromatic molecules (eg azoles, phenols), which has served to …

Nonadiabatic tunneling in photodissociation of phenol

C Xie, J Ma, X Zhu, DR Yarkony, D Xie… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Using recently developed full-dimensional coupled quasi-diabatic ab initio potential energy
surfaces including four electronic (1ππ, 1ππ*, 11πσ*, and 21πσ*) states, the tunneling …

Accurate nonadiabatic dynamics

H Guo, DR Yarkony - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
This Perspective addresses the use of coupled diabatic potential energy surfaces (PESs)
together with rigorous quantum dynamics in full or reduced dimensional coordinate spaces …

The role of πσ* states in the photochemistry of heteroaromatic biomolecules and their subunits: insights from gas-phase femtosecond spectroscopy

GM Roberts, VG Stavros - Chemical Science, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In an effort to illuminate why nature has chosen a particular set of bio-molecular 'building-
blocks' for life, recent years have seen an up-surge of gas-phase spectroscopy experiments …

Exploring nuclear motion through conical intersections in the UV photodissociation of phenols and thiophenol

MNR Ashfold, AL Devine, RN Dixon… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
High-resolution time-of-flight measurements of H atom products from photolysis of phenol, 4-
methylphenol, 4-fluorophenol, and thiophenol, at many UV wavelengths (λphot), have …

Direct observation of hydrogen tunneling dynamics in photoexcited phenol

GM Roberts, AS Chatterley, JD Young… - The Journal of …, 2012 - ACS Publications
The excited-state dynamics of phenol following ultraviolet (UV) irradiation have received
considerable interest in recent years, most notably because they can provide a model for …

Photodissociation dynamics of phenol: Multistate trajectory simulations including tunneling

X Xu, J Zheng, KR Yang, DG Truhlar - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We report multistate trajectory simulations, including coherence, decoherence, and
multidimensional tunneling, of phenol photodissociation dynamics. The calculations are …

Excited state hydrogen transfer dynamics in substituted phenols and their complexes with ammonia: ππ∗-πσ∗ energy gap propensity and ortho-substitution effect

GA Pino, AN Oldani, E Marceca, M Fujii… - The Journal of …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Lifetimes of the first electronic excited state (S 1) of fluorine and methyl (⁠ o-⁠, m-⁠, and p-
⁠) substituted phenols and their complexes with one ammonia molecule have been …

Ab Initio Study of Potential Ultrafast Internal Conversion Routes in Oxybenzone, Caffeic Acid, and Ferulic Acid: Implications for Sunscreens

TNV Karsili, B Marchetti, MNR Ashfold… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Oxybenzone (OB) and ferulic acid (FA) both find use in commercial sunscreens; caffeic acid
(CA) differs from FA by virtue of an− OH group in place of a− OCH3 group on the aromatic …