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The photophysics of benzaldehyde are analyzed through the lens of TD-DFT adiabatic excited states and Boys or Edmiston–Ruedenberg localized diabatic states. We predict rate constants for two processes in excited benzaldehyde: (i) the intersystem crossing from S1 → T2 and (ii) the phosphorescence from T1 → S0. We also study (iii) the conical intersection between T2 and T1 that is putatively responsible for an ultrafast internal conversion process, T2 → T1. In agreement with Ohmori et al. (J. Phys. Chem. 1988, 92 (5), 1086–1093), our results suggest that the S1 → T2 intersystem crossing in benzaldehyde is rapid not only because of a large spin–orbit matrix element (i.e., El-Sayed’s rule) but also because of a fortuitously small energy barrier. Furthermore, when studying the T2 → T1 internal conversion, we find that both Boys and Edmiston–Ruedenberg localization give remarkably stable and accurate diabatic states which will be useful for ongoing studies of dynamics near conical intersections. To our knowledg...

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Electronic Relaxation in Benzaldehyde Evaluated via TD-DFT and Localized Diabatization: Intersystem Crossings, Conical Intersections, and Phosphorescence