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The 3s Rydberg state as a doorway state in the ultrafast dynamics of 1,1-difluoroethylene

Gómez, S; Ibele, LM; González, L; (2019) The 3s Rydberg state as a doorway state in the ultrafast dynamics of 1,1-difluoroethylene. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics , 21 (9) pp. 4871-4878. 10.1039/c8cp07766e. Green open access

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Abstract

The deactivation dynamics of 1,1-difluoroethylene after light excitation is studied within the surface hopping formalism in the presence of 3s and 3p Rydberg states using multi-state second order perturbation theory (MS-CASPT2). Due to the proximity of the Rydberg π-3s state with the ππ* state, the states are mixed favoring ultrafast exchange of population via a conical intersection that closely resembles the equilibrium structure. After excitation, it is found that the π-3s state acts as a doorway state, trapping the population and delaying internal conversion to the ππ* state, from which deactivation to the closed-shell ground state takes place. Besides the conical intersection between the π-3s and ππ* states, five additional conical intersections between the ππ* state and the ground state are found, indicating that after the system is excited, it stretches the C[double bond, length as m-dash]C bond before it twists and pyramidalizes at any of the carbon atoms, in the spirit of a hula-twist mechanism.

Type: Article
Title: The 3s Rydberg state as a doorway state in the ultrafast dynamics of 1,1-difluoroethylene
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1039/c8cp07766e
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cp07766e
Language: English
Additional information: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10084436
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