Solvation and Photochemical Funnels: Environmental Effects on Conical Intersection Structure and Dynamics

摘要: Conical intersections (CIs) play a critical, if not dominant, role in the passage from photoexcited states to other excited and ground electronic state. This chapter reviews few key aspects of recent efforts construct theoretical approach for influence an environment on through CIs. In particular, CIs serve as funnels allowing often extremely rapid state nonadiabatic transitions, involving times short several tens femtoseconds. are subject many computational studies, most commonly focused isolated molecules, with relatively little effort addressed chromophores either solution environment, or protein nanospaces constituting photobiological situations.