Spin-vibronic mechanism for intersystem crossing

TJ Penfold, E Gindensperger, C Daniel… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Intersystem crossing (ISC), formally forbidden within nonrelativistic quantum theory, is the
mechanism by which a molecule changes its spin state. It plays an important role in the …

Nonadiabatic dynamics: The SHARC approach

S Mai, P Marquetand, L González - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We review the Surface Hopping including ARbitrary Couplings (SHARC) approach for
excited‐state nonadiabatic dynamics simulations. As a generalization of the popular surface …

Fundamental photophysics of isomorphic and expanded fluorescent nucleoside analogues

D Dziuba, P Didier, S Ciaco, A Barth… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Fluorescent nucleoside analogues (FNAs) are structurally diverse mimics of the natural
essentially non-fluorescent nucleosides which have found numerous applications in probing …

The origin of efficient triplet state population in sulfur-substituted nucleobases

S Mai, M Pollum, L Martínez-Fernández, N Dunn… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Elucidating the photophysical mechanisms in sulfur-substituted nucleobases (thiobases) is
essential for designing prospective drugs for photo-and chemotherapeutic applications …

Photochemical and photodynamical properties of sulfur‐substituted nucleic acid bases

B Ashwood, M Pollum… - Photochemistry and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Sulfur‐substituted nucleobases (aka, thiobases) are among the world's leading prescriptions
for chemotherapy and immunosuppression. Long‐term treatment with azathioprine, 6 …

Trajectory Surface-Hopping Dynamics Including Intersystem Crossing in [Ru(bpy)3]2+

AJ Atkins, L González - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
Surface-hopping dynamics coupled to linear response TDDFT and explicit nonadiabatic and
spin–orbit couplings have been used to model the ultrafast intersystem crossing (ISC) …

Photophysics and photochemistry of canonical nucleobases' thioanalogs: From quantum mechanical studies to time resolved experiments

S Arslancan, L Martínez-Fernández, I Corral - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Interest in understanding the photophysics and photochemistry of thiated nucleobases has
been awakened because of their possible involvement in primordial RNA or their potential …

Increase in the photoreactivity of uracil derivatives by doubling thionation

M Pollum, S Jockusch… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The ability of 4-thiouracil to strongly absorb UVA radiation and to populate a reactive triplet
state in high yield has enabled its use as a versatile photocrosslinker for nearly 50 years. In …

All-organic fast intersystem crossing assisted exciplexes exhibiting sub-microsecond thermally activated delayed fluorescence

K Traskovskis, A Sebris, I Novosjolova… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
A novel strategy is presented towards acquisition of exciplex systems exhibiting thermally
activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) with a high reverse intersystem crossing (RISC) rate …

A static picture of the relaxation and intersystem crossing mechanisms of photoexcited 2-thiouracil

S Mai, P Marquetand, L González - The Journal of Physical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Accurate excited-state quantum chemical calculations on 2-thiouracil, employing large
active spaces and up to quadruple-ζ quality basis sets in multistate complete active space …