Detailed Molecular Dynamics of the Photochromic Reaction of Spiropyran: A Semiclassical Dynamics Study
Figure 4
Snapshots taken at different times in a simulation of trans-SP in response to excitation by a 80 fs (FWHM) laser pulse with a fluence of 0.139 kJ/m2 and photon energy of 3.972 eV, Atom C, H, N, and O are, respectively, denoted by dark grey, French grey, blue, and red; (a)–(f) are at 0 fs, 244 fs, 422 fs, 616 fs, 4848 fs, and 15000 fs, respectively [41].