Pažėra Gediminas Jurgis, Fay Thomas P, Solov'yov Ilia A, Hore P J, Gerhards Luca
Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford OX1 3QZ, United Kingdom.
Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.
J Chem Theory Comput. 2024 Oct 8;20(19):8412-8421. doi: 10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00361. Epub 2024 Sep 16.
The chemical reactivity of radical pairs is strongly influenced by the interactions of electronic and nuclear spins. A detailed understanding of these effects requires a quantum description of the spin dynamics that considers spin-dependent reaction rates, interactions with external magnetic fields, spin-spin interactions, and the loss of spin coherence caused by coupling to a fluctuating environment. Modeling real chemical and biochemical systems, which frequently involve radicals with multinuclear spin systems, poses a severe computational challenge. Here, we implement a method based on the stochastic Schrödinger equation in the software package . Large electron-nuclear spin systems can be simulated efficiently, with asymmetric spin-selective recombination reactions, anisotropic hyperfine interactions, and nonzero exchange and dipolar couplings. Spin-relaxation can be modeled using the stochastic time-dependence of spin interactions determined by molecular dynamics and quantum chemical calculations or by allowing rate coefficients to be explicitly time-dependent. The flexibility afforded by this approach opens new avenues for exploring the effects of complex molecular motions on the spin dynamics of chemical transformations.
自由基对的化学反应性受到电子自旋和核自旋相互作用的强烈影响。要详细理解这些效应,需要对自旋动力学进行量子描述,其中要考虑自旋相关的反应速率、与外部磁场的相互作用、自旋-自旋相互作用以及由于与波动环境耦合而导致的自旋相干性丧失。对实际的化学和生化系统进行建模,这些系统常常涉及具有多核自旋系统的自由基,这带来了严峻的计算挑战。在此,我们在软件包中实现了一种基于随机薛定谔方程的方法。大型电子-核自旋系统能够被高效模拟,包括不对称自旋选择性复合反应、各向异性超精细相互作用以及非零交换和偶极耦合。自旋弛豫可以通过分子动力学和量子化学计算确定的自旋相互作用的随机时间依赖性来建模,或者通过允许速率系数明确地随时间变化来建模。这种方法所提供的灵活性为探索复杂分子运动对化学转化自旋动力学的影响开辟了新途径。
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