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Geometric and electronic structure probed along the isomerisation coordinate of a photoactive yellow protein chromophore.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the connection between the motion of the nuclei in a molecule and the rearrangement of its electrons lies at the heart of chemistry. While many experimental methods have been developed to probe either the electronic or the nuclear structure on the timescale of atomic motion, very few have been able to capture both these changes in concert. Here, we use time-resolved photoelectron imaging to probe the isomerisation coordinate on the excited state of an isolated model chromophore anion of the photoactive yellow protein. By probing both the electronic structure changes as well as nuclear dynamics, we are able to uniquely measure isomerisation about a specific bond. Our results demonstrate that the photoelectron signal dispersed in time, energy and angle combined with calculations can track the evolution of both electronic and geometric structure along the adiabatic state, which in turn defines that chemical transformation.

SUBMITTER: Anstoter CS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7272410 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Geometric and electronic structure probed along the isomerisation coordinate of a photoactive yellow protein chromophore.

Anstöter Cate S CS Curchod Basile F E BFE Verlet Jan R R JRR

Nature communications 20200604 1

Understanding the connection between the motion of the nuclei in a molecule and the rearrangement of its electrons lies at the heart of chemistry. While many experimental methods have been developed to probe either the electronic or the nuclear structure on the timescale of atomic motion, very few have been able to capture both these changes in concert. Here, we use time-resolved photoelectron imaging to probe the isomerisation coordinate on the excited state of an isolated model chromophore ani ...[more]

PMID: 32499507

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Project description:We have performed ab initio CASSCF, CASPT2, and EOM-CCSD calculations on doubly deprotonated p-coumaric acid (pCA(2-)), the chromophore precursor of the photoactive yellow protein. The results of the calculations demonstrate that pCA(2-) can undergo only photoisomerization of the double bond. In contrast, the chromophore derivative with the acid replaced by a ketone (p-hydroxybenzylidene acetone, pCK(-)) undergoes both single- and double-bond photoisomerization, with the single-bond relaxation channel more favorable than the double-bond channel. The substitution alters the nature of the first excited states and the associated potential energy landscape. The calculations show that the electronic nature of the first two (?,?*) excited states are interchanged in vacuo due to the substitution. In pCK(-), the first excited state is a charge-transfer (CT ?,?*) state, in which the negative charge has migrated from the phenolate ring onto the alkene tail of the chromophore, whereas the locally excited (LE ?,?*) state, in which the excitation involves the orbitals on the phenol ring, lies higher in energy and is the fourth excited state. In pCA(2-), the CT state is higher in energy due the presence of a negative charge on the tail of the chromophore, and the first excited state is the LE state. In isolated pCA(2-), there is a 68 kJ/mol barrier for double-bond photoisomerization on the potential energy surface of this LE state. In water, however, hydrogen bonding with water molecules reduces this barrier to 9 kJ/mol. The barrier separates the local trans minimum near the Franck-Condon region from the global minimum on the excited-state potential energy surface. The lowest energy conical intersection was located near this minimum. In contrast to pCK(-), single-bond isomerization is highly unfavorable both in the LE and CT states of pCA(2-). These results demonstrate that pCA(2-) can only decay efficiently in water and exclusively by double-bond photoisomerization. These findings provide a rationale for the experimental observations that pCA(2-) has both a longer excited-state lifetime and a higher isomerization quantum yield than pCK(-).

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Geometric and electronic structure probed along the isomerisation coordinate of a photoactive yellow protein chromophore.

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Geometric and electronic structure probed along the isomerisation coordinate of a photoactive yellow protein chromophore.

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