Computational Study on the Removal of Photolabile Protecting Groups by Photochemical Reactions

Publication date: Available online 23 January 2019Source: Computational and Theoretical ChemistryAuthor(s): Chou-Hsun Yang, Johanna Denne, Scott Reed, Haobin WangAbstractThe application and versatility of photolabile protecting groups (PPGs) have continued to expand since their inception almost 50 years ago. In the present work we employ density functional theory (DFT) to characterize ground and excited state properties of several compounds with PPGs and to explore possible, controllable photodissociation reactions that remove these PPGs. The reaction mechanism is examined by analyzing the DFT results as well as dynamical simulations of nonadiabatic electron transfer reactions using multilayer multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree theory. The photoexcited compounds appear to undergo ultrafast back electron transfer to the ground electronic state via internal conversion. For some compounds, the electronic-nuclear couplings facilitate sufficient photo energy transfer to the nuclear degrees of freedom that dominate the reaction coordinate, leading to the dissociation reaction that removes the PPGs.Graphical abstract
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