Citation: DOU Yu-Sheng, LI Wei, YUAN Shuai, ZHANG Wen-Ying, LI An-Yang, SHU Kun-Xian, TANG Hong. Dynamics Simulation of Photophysical Deactivation Pathway for Stacked Thymines[J]. Acta Physico-Chimica Sinica, ;2011, 27(11): 2559-2564. doi: 10.3866/PKU.WHXB20111115 shu

Dynamics Simulation of Photophysical Deactivation Pathway for Stacked Thymines

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Institute of High Performance Computing and Application, Research Center of Network and Computing, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, P. R. China

Received Date: 24 May 2011
Available Online: 5 September 2011
Fund Project: 国家自然科学基金(21073242) (21073242) 重庆市自然科学基金(cstc2011jjA00009) (cstc2011jjA00009)重庆市教委科学技术项目(KJ100507)资助 (KJ100507)

A semiclassical dynamics simulation study was undertaken to determine the photophysical deactivation of the lowest excited state of two stacked thymines. Only one thymine, referred to as T, was excited by a laser pulse and the other molecule, referred to as T′, remained in the ground state. The simulation results show that charge transfer between the two thymines because of a π-stacking interaction leads to the formation of an excimer state, which includes a negative T and a positive T′. Additionally, the simulation study indicates that a steric effect of the neighboring bases inhibits the out-of-plane deformation, which is essential in accessing the conical intersection between the lowest electronic-excited state and the ground state. The steric effect eventually leads to a longer electronic-excited state lifetime for the two stacked thymines. The simulation results reveal that when the interbase distance is less than 0.3 nm the molecule T has a remarkable deformation at its C₅ and C₆ sites resulting in charge recombination. The charge recombination ultimately makes the system electronically neutral. On the other hand, the molecule T′ has a strong twist about its C₅′―C₆′ bond in the proximity of the avoided crossing by which the system decays to the ground state. Finally, the two thymine molecules in their ground states recover their planar geometries.
- Thymine,
- Semiclassical dynamic simulation,
- Charge transfer,
- Excimer,
- Deactivation
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