A similar heatmap of ion configurations can also be constructed for CV in methanol (see Fig. ). We note that in the polar solvent, the mean distance to the N is significantly increased to approximately 8.2 Å along the trajectory, suggesting that the ion is mostly screened by a solvation shell of methanol molecules. Additionally there is much less of a correlation between the ion position and the S 1 -S 2 splitting, again confirming that the influence of the counter ion is effectively screened by the polar solvent as soon as Cl -is not forming a contact ion pair with CV.