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Can we use on-the-fly quantum simulations to connect molecular structure and sunscreen action?

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Richings, Gareth, Robertson, Christopher and Habershon, Scott (2019) Can we use on-the-fly quantum simulations to connect molecular structure and sunscreen action? Faraday Discussions, 216 . pp. 476-493. doi:10.1039/C8FD00228B ISSN 0301-7249.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1039/C8FD00228B

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Abstract

The ground-up design of new molecular sunscreens, with improved photostability, absorbance and spectral coverage, stands as a challenge to fundamental chemical science. Correlating sunscreen molecular structure and function requires detailed insight into the relaxation pathways available following photoexcitation; however, the complex coupled electron/nuclear dynamics in these systems stands as a tough challenge to computational chemistry. To address this challenge, we have recently developed efficient and accurate simulation methods to model non-adiabatic dynamics of general molecular systems as a route to correlating photoinduced dynamics and potential sunscreen activity. Our approach, combining the multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree (MCTDH) method with PESs generated using machine-learning, represents a new “on-the-fly” strategy for accurate wavefunction propagation, with the potential to provide a new “black box” strategy for interrogating ultrafast dynamics in general photoinduced energy transport processes. Here, we illustrate our attempts to apply this methodology to study the ultrafast photochemistry of four compounds derived from mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs), compounds which are believed to act as microbial sunscreens in micro-organisms such as algae. Specifically, we investigate how the choice of active vibrational space and diabatic electronic states in MCTDH strongly influences the predictions of ultrafast dynamic relaxation in representative MAAs. Our results serve to demonstrate that “on-the-fly” quantum dynamics using MCTDH is increasingly viable, but important barriers relating to coordinate choices and diabatisation remain.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
Q Science > QD Chemistry
R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica
Divisions: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Chemistry
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Centre for Scientific Computing
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Sunscreens (Cosmetics) -- Molecular aspects, Photoelectrochemistry , Computational chemistry , Schrödinger equation
Journal or Publication Title: Faraday Discussions
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
ISSN: 0301-7249
Official Date: 1 July 2019
Dates:
DateEvent
1 July 2019Published
22 January 2019Available
18 January 2019Accepted
Volume: 216
Page Range: pp. 476-493
DOI: 10.1039/C8FD00228B
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 25 March 2021
Date of first compliant Open Access: 25 March 2021
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
RPG-2016-055Leverhulme Trusthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000275
EP/R020477/1[EPSRC] Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000266
Energy Global Research PriorityUniversity of Warwickhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000741

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