Computer simulation of photoinduced molecular motion and reactivity

The use of the computer to simulate light induced chemical processes has given access to a detailed description of the molecular motion and mechanism underlying the reactivity of organic and bio-organic chromophores. Thus, different computational strategies and tools can now be operated like “virtua...

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Main Authors: Marco Garavelli, Fernando Bernardi, Michael A. Roob, Massimo Olivucci
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2002-01-01
Series:International Journal of Photoenergy
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S1110662X02000107
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Summary:The use of the computer to simulate light induced chemical processes has given access to a detailed description of the molecular motion and mechanism underlying the reactivity of organic and bio-organic chromophores. Thus, different computational strategies and tools can now be operated like “virtual spectrometers” to characterize the photoinduced molecular deformation and reactivity of a given chromophore. Furthermore, a systematic computer investigation of a wide range of photochemical organic reactions during the last decade, has lead to novel concepts that allow the chemist to formulate the mechanism of a photochemical reaction in a rigorous way and with a language which is familiar to chemists.
ISSN:1110-662X