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How good is the generalized Langevin equation to describe the dynamics of photo-induced electron transfer in fluid solution?
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Angulo, Gonzalo
Jedrak, Jakub
Ochab-Marcinek, Anna
Pasitsuparoad, Pakorn
Radzewicz, Czesław
Wnuk, Paweł
Rosspeintner, Arnulf
Published in Journal of Chemical Physics. 2017, vol. 146, no. 24, 244505
Abstract The dynamics of unimolecular photo-triggered reactions can be strongly affected by the surrounding medium for which a large number of theoretical descriptions have been used in the past. An accurate description of these reactions requires knowing the potential energy surface and the friction felt by the reactants. Most of these theories start from the Langevin equation to derive the dynamics, but there are few examples comparing it with experiments. Here we explore the applicability of a Generalized Langevin Equation (GLE) with an arbitrary potential and a non-Markovian friction. To this end, we have performed broadband fluorescence measurements with sub-picosecond time resolution of a covalently linked organic electron donor-acceptor system in solvents of changing viscosity and dielectric permittivity. In order to establish the free energy surface (FES) of the reaction, we resort to stationary electronic spectroscopy. On the other hand, the dynamics of a non-reacting substance, Coumarin 153, provide the calibrating tool for the non-Markovian friction over the FES, which is assumed to be solute independent. A simpler and computationally faster approach uses the Generalized Smoluchowski Equation (GSE), which can be derived from the GLE for pure harmonic potentials. Both approaches reproduce the measurements in most of the solvents reasonably well. At long times, some differences arise from the errors inherited from the analysis of the stationary solvatochromism and at short times from the excess excitation energy. However, whenever the dynamics become slow, the GSE shows larger deviations than the GLE, the results of which always agree qualitatively with the measured dynamics, regardless of the solvent viscosity or dielectric properties. The method applied here can be used to predict the dynamics of any other reacting system, given the FES parameters and solvent dynamics are provided. Thus no fitting parameters enter the GLE simulations, within the applicability limits found for the model in this work.
Keywords Fluorescence — Spectroscopy — Chemical reactions — Computer simulation — Thermodynamic properties
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Faculté des sciences / Section de chimie et biochimie / Département de chimie physique
Research group Groupe Vauthey
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(ISO format) 		ANGULO, Gonzalo et al. How good is the generalized Langevin equation to describe the dynamics of photo-induced electron transfer in fluid solution?. In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 2017, vol. 146, n° 24, p. 244505. doi: 10.1063/1.4990044 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:98052

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