https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920510005
Intersystem crossing in thiobases proceeds by a dark intermediate state
1 Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 31270-901 Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil
2 IFN-CNR, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
3 Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale, Università degli Studi di Bologna, Viale del Risorgimento 4, I-40136 Bologna, Italy
* Corresponding author: ana@fisica.ufmg.br, giulio.cerullo@polimi.it, marco.garavelli@unibo.it.
Published online: 16 April 2019
4-thiouracil (4TU) is studied by transient absorption spectroscopy employing sub-20 fs UV-pulses and hybrid QM(CASPT2) / MM(AMBER) computations (static and dynamic), evidencing that, along the photoexcited relaxation pathway, intersystem crossing originates from a dark intermediate state.
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