Time-dependent density functional theory molecular dynamics simulation of doubly charged uracil in gas phase

Central European Journal of Physics - Tập 12 - Trang 97-102 - 2014
Pablo López-Tarifa1, Marie-Anne Hervé du Penhoat2, Rodophe Vuilleumier3, Marie-Pierre Gaigeot4,5, Ursula Rothlisberger1, Ivano Tavernelli1, Arnaud Le Padellec6,7, Jean-Philippe Champeaux8,9, Manuel Alcamí10, Patrick Moretto-Capelle8,9, Fernando Martín10,11, Marie-Françoise Politis4
1École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL SB-ISIC-LCBC-BCH, Lausanne, Switzerland
2IMPMC UMR-CNRS 7590, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
3École Normale Supérieure, Département de Chimie, UMR 8640 CNRS-ENS-UPMC, Paris, France
4LAMBE, UMR-CNRS 8587, Université d’Evry val d’Essonne, Evry, France
5Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
6CESR, Université de Toulouse, UPS, Toulouse Cedex 9, France
7CNRS, UMR5187, Toulouse, France
8Laboratoire Collisions, Agrégats, Réactivité, Université de Toulouse, UPS, Toulouse, France
9CNRS, UMR 5589, Toulouse, France
10Departamento de Qí’mica, Módulo 13, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
11Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia (IMDEA-Nanociencia), Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain

Tóm tắt

We use time-dependent density functional theory and Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics methods to investigate the fragmentation of doubly ionized uracil in gas phase. Different initial electronic excited states of the dication are obtained by removing electrons from different inner-shell orbitals of the neutral species. We show that shape-equivalent orbitals lead to very different fragmentation patterns revealing the importance of the intramolecular chemical environment. The results are in good agreement with ionion coincidence measurements of uracil collision with 100 keV protons.

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