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Journal Article
Photoinduced hydrogen dissociation in thymine predicted by coupled cluster theory
2024
Overview
The fate of thymine upon excitation by ultraviolet radiation has been the subject of intense debate. Today, it is widely believed that its ultrafast excited state gas phase decay stems from a radiationless transition from the bright
π
π
* state to a dark
n
π
* state. However, conflicting theoretical predictions have made the experimental data difficult to interpret. Here we simulate the early gas phase ultrafast dynamics in thymine at the highest level of theory to date. This is made possible by performing wavepacket dynamics with a recently developed coupled cluster method. Our simulation confirms an ultrafast
π
π
* to
n
π
* transition (
τ
= 41 ± 14 fs). Furthermore, the predicted oxygen-edge X-ray absorption spectra agree quantitatively with experiment. We also predict an as-yet uncharacterized
π
σ
* channel that leads to hydrogen dissociation at one of the two N-H bonds. Similar behavior has been identified in other heteroaromatic compounds, including adenine, and several authors have speculated that a similar pathway may exist in thymine. However, this was never confirmed theoretically or experimentally. This prediction calls for renewed efforts to experimentally identify or exclude the presence of this channel.
The photophysics of thymine in the gas phase are still under debate. Here the authors perform coupled-cluster-based dynamics simulations to predict time-resolved X-ray absorption spectra and reveal a hydrogen dissociation channel.
