Photoelectron Spectra of 2-Thiouracil, 4-Thiouracil and 2,4-Dithiouracil

Abstract

Ground- and excited-state UV photoelectron spectra of thiouracils (2-thiouracil, 4-thiouracil and 2,4-dithiouracil) have been simulated using multireference configuration interaction calculations and Dyson norms as measure for the photoionization intensity. Except for a constant shift, the calculated spectrum of 2-thiouracil agrees very well with experiment, while no experimental spectra are available for the two other compounds. For all three molecules, the photoelectron spectra show distinct bands due to ionization of the sulphur and oxygen lone pairs and the pyrimidine $\pi$ system. The excited-state photoelectron spectra of 2-thiouracil show bands at much lower energies than in the ground state spectrum, allowing to monitor the excited-state population in time-resolved UV photoelectron spectroscopy (TRPES) experiments. However, the results also reveal that single-photon ionization probe schemes alone will not allow monitoring all photodynamic processes existing in 2-thiouracil. Especially, due to overlapping bands of singlet and triplet states the clear observation of intersystem crossing will be hampered.

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