Search Results - "Szymczak, Jaroslaw J"
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Relaxation mechanisms of UV-photoexcited DNA and RNA nucleobases
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (14-12-2010)“…A comprehensive effort in photodynamical ab initio simulations of the ultrafast deactivation pathways for all five nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine,…”
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Nonadiabatic Dynamics of Uracil: Population Split among Different Decay Mechanisms
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory (02-06-2011)“…Nonadiabatic dynamics simulations performed at the state-averaged CASSCF method are reported for uracil. Supporting calculations on stationary points and…”
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Photodynamical simulations of cytosine: characterization of the ultrafast bi-exponential UV deactivation
Published in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP (01-01-2011)“…Deactivation of UV-excited cytosine is investigated by non-adiabatic dynamics simulations, optimization of conical intersections, and determination of reaction…”
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The decay mechanism of photoexcited guanine - a nonadiabatic dynamics study
Published in The Journal of chemical physics (07-01-2011)“…Ab initio surface hopping dynamics calculations were performed for the biologically relevant tautomer of guanine in gas phase excited into the first ππ∗ state…”
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Mechanism of Ultrafast Photodecay in Restricted Motions in Protonated Schiff Bases: The Pentadieniminium Cation
Published in Journal of chemical theory and computation (01-08-2008)“…Ab initio surface-hopping dynamics simulations for the trans-penta-3,5-dieniminium cation (PSB3) are presented imposing different sets of mechanical…”
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Critical appraisal of excited state nonadiabatic dynamics simulations of 9H-adenine
Published in The Journal of chemical physics (14-12-2012)“…In spite of the importance of nonadiabatic dynamics simulations for the understanding of ultrafast photo-induced phenomena, simulations based on different…”
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The effect of C5 substitution on the photochemistry of uracil
Published in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP (01-01-2010)“…A combined experimental and theoretical study on the excited-state behavior of the uracil analogues, 5-OH-Ura and 5-NH(2)-Ura is reported. Two-photon…”
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Is the Photoinduced Isomerization in Retinal Protonated Schiff Bases a Single- or Double-Torsional Process?
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory (29-10-2009)“…Nonadiabatic photodynamical simulations are presented for the all-trans and 5-cis isomers of the hepta-3,5,7-trieniminium cation (PSB4) with the goal of…”
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Structure and dynamics of solvent shells around photoexcited metal complexes
Published in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP (07-05-2013)“…Understanding the geometry, energetics and dynamics of solvated transition metal (TM) compounds is decisive in characterizing and optimizing their function…”
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Photodynamics Simulations of Thymine: Relaxation into the First Excited Singlet State
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory (12-11-2009)“…Ab initio nonadiabatic dynamics simulations are reported for thymine with focus on the S2 → S1 deactivation using the state-averaged CASSCF method. Supporting…”
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Nonadiabatic excited-state dynamics of polar pi-systems and related model compounds of biological relevance
Published in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP (01-01-2008)“…Multireference ab initio dynamics simulations have become available as a tool for the investigation of photochemical processes, mainly for those related to…”
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Atomistic simulations of reactive processes in the gas- and condensed-phase
Published in International reviews in physical chemistry (01-04-2012)“…This review focuses on force-field-based approaches to investigate - through computer simulations - reactive processes in chemical and biological systems…”
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The Nature of Variations of Ammonia Proton Affinity in an Argon Environment
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory (07-12-2006)“…The presence of solvent molecules, even inert, may significantly influence processes taking place in the gas phase. The reason for the solvent activity may be…”
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The Li+ CationThe Descendant of H+ or an Ancestor of Na+? The Properties of Li+Ar n (n = 1−6) Clusters
Published in The journal of physical chemistry. A, Molecules, spectroscopy, kinetics, environment, & general theory (05-08-2004)“…Ab initio studies of molecular structures and properties of the Li+Ar n complexes were carried out. The investigation of the Li+Ar dimer with the…”
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Interactions in Polymorphic Crystals of m-Nitrophenol as Studied by Variable-Temperature X-ray Diffraction and Quantum Chemical Calculations
Published in Crystal growth & design (01-01-2006)“…Crystal structures of two polymorphic forms of m-nitrophenol have been determined at several temperatures between 95 to 350 K. The thermal expansion tensor and…”
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Influence of the active space on CASSCF nonadiabatic dynamics simulations
Published in International journal of quantum chemistry (05-11-2011)“…Nonadiabatic dynamics simulations are performed at four different extended ab initio CASSCF levels for 4‐aminopyrimidine, which had been selected because of…”
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The effect of hydration on the photo-deactivation pathways of 4-aminopyrimidine
Published in Chemical physics (14-09-2010)“…The change in the electrostatic potential on electronic excitation from the ground state to the nπ∗ state leads to a breaking of the hydrogen bond connected to…”
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The photodynamics of 2,4-diaminopyrimidine in comparison with 4-aminopyrimidine: The effect of amino-substitution
Published in Chemical physics letters (10-09-2010)“…[Display omitted] ► On-the-fly surface hopping ab initio dynamics study at multi-configurational level. ► Substituent effect on relaxation mechanism of…”
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H⋯σ interactions – an ab initio and `atoms in molecules' study
Published in Chemical physics letters (21-07-2004)“…An ab initio MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ study has been carried out on XH 4 +⋯H 2 and [XH 4 +(H 2) 4]⋯H 2 complexes (where X=N, P, As, Sb, Bi). The investigated complexes…”
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