Identificador: TDX:853
Autors: Gomez Lara, Isabel
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This thesis is in the line with the work performed in the Grup de Química Quàntica of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and it covers the theoretical study of several photosensitive molecular systems with synthetic and technological interest. The use of ab initio methods has allowed to evaluate the nature of the excited states implied in the reactions, the geometries and energetics of the species that are formed and the mechanisms that lead to the photochemical transformations, as well as to examine the effect produced in the reaction mechanism by factors like the variation of the substituent groups or the reaction field. For this reason, it has been necessary the analysis of the potential energy surfaces of the lower energy excited states in each of the systems in those it is produced the photochemical reactions studied. It is essential to locate critical points (minima and transition states), reaction pathways and interaction points between surfaces, as it is the case of conical intersections, real crossings and avoided crossings. An indispensable condition, which implies an important added difficulty, is that it is necessary to carry out these calculations with a precision similar to that of ground state, for it the use of an ab initio methodology has been indispensable because it provides an accurate description of the potential energy surfaces of the excited states involved in the reaction. This memory is organized in the following way: chapter 2 consists of a general introduction that includes the basic aspects that one has to take in consideration regarding to the photochemical reactions, whereas chapter 3 collects a description of the theoretical methods that have been used in the study of these photochemical reactions. Chapter 4 is dedicated to the study of the reaction mechanisms of the different photochemical transformations that suffer the bicyclo[3.1.0]-3-hexen-2-ones and their derivatives. The competitive reactions have been compared and it has been possible to elucidate the electronic nature of the reaction intermediates generated in the rearrangement. This chapter includes also the keto/phenol tautomerism, since it is the last step of the bicyclohexenones rearrangement, and the interconversion mechanism between the most important isomerics of phenol. There has been evaluated the OH bond dissociation enthalpy (BDE) in phenol molecule and the rotation barrier through the OH bond. Chapter 5 involved the study of different systems with  groups donor-acceptor united by a single bond that can produce intramolecular charge transfer reactions. It has been possible to establish the mechanism for which there pass these reactions, the electronic nature of the species involved and the role that the polar medium plays in the phenomenon of the dual fluorescence. Chapter 6 raises the processes that take place in molecules whose chromatic properties can be reversibly interchanged by the use of a radiation source. More specifically, it has been studied the cis/trans isomerism in a merocyanine molecule and it has been established the photochemical ring-closure mechanism that leads to the formation of the benzopyran molecule. Finally, in chapter 7 there are collected the main conclusion extracted from the previous chapters.
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