From a one-mode to a multi-mode understanding of conical intersection mediated ultrafast organic photochemical reactions

Y Boeije, M Olivucci - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the last few decades, conical intersections (CoIns) have grown from theoretical
curiosities into common mechanistic features of photochemical reactions, whose function is …

Modeling of the spectroscopy of core electrons with density functional theory

NA Besley - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The availability of X‐ray light sources with increased resolution and intensity has provided a
foundation for increasingly sophisticated experimental studies exploiting the spectroscopy of …

Highly accurate prediction of core spectra of molecules at density functional theory cost: Attaining sub-electronvolt error from a restricted open-shell Kohn–Sham …

D Hait, M Head-Gordon - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
We present the use of the recently developed square gradient minimization (SGM) algorithm
for excited-state orbital optimization to obtain spin-pure restricted open-shell Kohn–Sham …

Progress in the theory of x-ray spectroscopy: From quantum chemistry to machine learning and ultrafast dynamics

CD Rankine, TJ Penfold - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2021 - ACS Publications
The development of high-brilliance third-and fourth-generation light sources such as
synchrotrons and X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), the emergence of laboratory-based X …

Revealing Excited‐State Trajectories on Potential Energy Surfaces with Atomic Resolution in Real Time

D Leshchev, A JS Valentine, P Kim… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photoexcited molecular trajectories on potential energy surfaces (PESs) prior to
thermalization are intimately connected to the photochemical reaction outcome. The excited …

Relativistic orbital-optimized density functional theory for accurate core-level spectroscopy

LA Cunha, D Hait, R Kang, Y Mao… - The journal of physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Core-level spectra of 1s electrons of elements heavier than Ne show significant relativistic
effects. We combine advances in orbital-optimized density functional theory (OO-DFT) with …

Core-excited states and x-ray absorption spectra from multireference algebraic diagrammatic construction theory

IM Mazin, AY Sokolov - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We report the development and benchmark of multireference algebraic diagrammatic
construction theory (MR-ADC) for the simulations of core-excited states and X-ray absorption …

Simulating transient X-ray photoelectron spectra of Fe (CO) 5 and its photodissociation products with multireference algebraic diagrammatic construction theory

NP Gaba, CEV de Moura, R Majumder… - Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Accurate simulations of transient X-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS) provide unique
opportunities to bridge the gap between theory and experiment in understanding the …

XABOOM: An X-ray absorption benchmark of organic molecules based on carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen 1s→ π* transitions

T Fransson, IE Brumboiu, ML Vidal… - Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The performance of several standard and popular approaches for calculating X-ray
absorption spectra at the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen K-edges of 40 primarily organic …

Tuning UV Pump X-ray Probe Spectroscopy on the Nitrogen K Edge Reveals the Radiationless Relaxation of Pyrazine: Ab Initio Simulations Using the Quasiclassical …

T Kaczun, AL Dempwolff, X Huang… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Transient absorption UV pump X-ray probe spectroscopy has been established as a
versatile technique for the exploration of ultrafast photoinduced dynamics in valence-excited …