The photodynamics of ethylene: A surface-hopping study on structural aspects
- Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Waehringerstrasse 17, A-1090 Vienna (Austria)
Simulations of the photodynamics of ethylene were carried out by employing the semiempirical direct trajectory with surface hopping method in order to assess quantitatively the importance of different regions of the S{sub 2}/S{sub 1} and S{sub 1}/S{sub 0} crossing seams. The results show that during the first 50 fs after a vertical photoexcitation to the {pi}{pi}* state, the nonadiabatic coupling between the S{sub 1} and the S{sub 2} states produces a recurrence pattern of oscillation of the populations in these states. Within the first 100 fs, the S{sub 1} state population spans a limited region of the configuration space between the initial geometries and the twisted-pyramidalized minimum on the crossing seam (MXS). Depending on the way of counting, about 50% of the S{sub 1}{yields}S{sub 0} transitions occur in the pyramidalized region of the crossing seam, but not necessarily close to the MXS. The remaining 50% occurs in the H-migration and ethylidene regions. Our analysis shows that the ethylidene region becomes more important in later stages of the dynamics when the flux of trajectories that was not effectively converted to the ground state in the pyramidalized region starts to reach this part of the configuration space. The excited-state nonadiabatic dynamics could be employed to generate suitable initial phase space distributions for the hot-ethylene ground-state kinetic studies.
- OSTI ID:
- 20722183
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 122, Issue 17; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.1888573; (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0021-9606
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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