Competing Photoisomerization and Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer in a Visible-Light-Driven Salicylidene Schiff Base Functionalized Molecular Motor: Insights from Ultrafast Nonadiabatic Dynamics Simulations
We investigate the ultrafast dynamics of a visible-light-driven salicylaldehyde Schiff base-functionalized molecular motor using non-adiabatic molecular dynamics (NAMD) at the orthogonalization-corrected method 2 and the multireference configuration interaction (OM2/MRCI) level. Results reveal a dynamic competitive int...