“…The investigation of the photophysics of drugs or the photoreactive paths that might be activated upon photon absorption is crucial for identifying photoinitiated side effects, as well as in the design of novel and improved drugs. In the literature, there are a few experimental and computational studies on the photophysics of NSAIDs, most often based on steady state results [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14], or on quantum chemical calculations on the energetics of their excited states, mainly at DFT/TD-DFT level of theory [2,15,16,17,18]. However, investigations of the excited state dynamics of these molecules are still lacking.…”