Photocyclization of trans-stilbene induced by an ultrafast laser pulse

abstract

• We predict that photocyclization of trans-stilbene to 4a,4b-dihydrophenanthrene (DHP) can be achieved with a femtosecond-scale laser pulse. Specifically, we have performed dynamical simulations in which the original trans-stilbene molecule is observed first to isomerize to cis-stilbene (as an excited-state intermediate) after more than one picosecond, and then to form a new bond to become DHP, after a few hundred additional femtoseconds. The process is initiated by excitation from the S0 electronic state to S1, with subsequent de-excitation at avoided crossings. 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

authors

• Allen, Roland

published proceedings

• CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS

author list (cited authors)

• Jiang, C., Xie, R., Li, F., & Allen, R. E.

citation count

• 18

complete list of authors

• Jiang, Chen-Wei||Xie, Rui-Hua||Li, Fu-Li||Allen, Roland E

publication date

• March 2010

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• CHEMICAL PHYSICS LETTERS  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.cplett.2010.01.035

start page

• 177

end page

• 182

volume

• 487

issue

• 4-6

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2010.01.035