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Arnold C, Inhester L, Carbajo S, Welsch R, Santra R. Simulated XUV photoelectron spectra of THz-pumped liquid water. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:044505. [PMID: 30709301 DOI: 10.1063/1.5054272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Highly intense, sub-picosecond terahertz (THz) pulses can be used to induce ultrafast temperature jumps (T-jumps) in liquid water. A supercritical state of gas-like water with liquid density is established, and the accompanying structural changes are expected to give rise to time-dependent chemical shifts. We investigate the possibility of using extreme ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy as a probe for ultrafast dynamics induced by sub-picosecond THz pulses of varying intensities and frequencies. To this end, we use ab initio methods to calculate photoionization cross sections and photoelectron energies of (H2O)20 clusters embedded in an aqueous environment represented by point charges. The cluster geometries are sampled from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations modeling the THz-water interactions. We find that the peaks in the valence photoelectron spectrum are shifted by up to 0.4 eV after the pump pulse and that they are broadened with respect to unheated water. The shifts can be connected to structural changes caused by the heating, but due to saturation effects they are not sensitive enough to serve as a thermometer for T-jumped water.
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- Caroline Arnold
- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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Iikubo R, Sekikawa T, Harabuchi Y, Taketsugu T. Structural dynamics of photochemical reactions probed by time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy using high harmonic pulses. Faraday Discuss 2018; 194:147-160. [PMID: 27711881 DOI: 10.1039/c6fd00063k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Femtosecond ring-opening dynamics of 1,3-cyclohexadiene (CHD) in gas phase upon two-photon excitation at 400 nm (=3.1 eV) was investigated by time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy using 42 nm (=29.5 eV) high harmonic photons probing the dynamics of the lower-lying occupied molecular orbitals (MOs), which are the fingerprints of the molecular structure. After 500 fs, the photoelectron intensity of the MO constituting the C[double bond, length as m-dash]C sigma bond (σC[double bond, length as m-dash]C) of CHD was enhanced, while that of the MO forming the C-C sigma bond (σCC) of CHD was decreased. The changes in the photoelectron spectra suggest that the ring of CHD opens to form a 1,3,5-hexatriene (HT) after 500 fs. The dynamics of the σC[double bond, length as m-dash]C and σCC bands between 200 and 500 fs reflects the ring deformation to a conical intersection between the 21A and 11A potential energy surfaces prior to the ring-opening reaction.
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- Ryo Iikubo
- Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Kita 13 Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan.
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- Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Kita 13 Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan.
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Kita 10 Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Kita 10 Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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González-Navarrete P, Andrés J, Safont VS. A bonding evolution analysis for the thermal Claisen rearrangement: an experimental and theoretical exercise for testing the electron density flow. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:535-541. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp07557j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The BET analysis brings about the natural appearance of curly arrows representing thus the electronic flow in molecular rearrangements.
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- Departamento de Química Física y Analítica
- Universitat Jaume I
- Castelló de la Plana
- Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física y Analítica
- Universitat Jaume I
- Castelló de la Plana
- Spain
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Wernet P, Leitner T, Josefsson I, Mazza T, Miedema PS, Schröder H, Beye M, Kunnus K, Schreck S, Radcliffe P, Düsterer S, Meyer M, Odelius M, Föhlisch A. Communication: Direct evidence for sequential dissociation of gas-phase Fe(CO) 5 via a singlet pathway upon excitation at 266 nm. J Chem Phys 2017; 146:211103. [PMID: 28595420 PMCID: PMC5457291 DOI: 10.1063/1.4984774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2017] [Accepted: 05/18/2017] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We prove the hitherto hypothesized sequential dissociation of Fe(CO)5 in the gas phase upon photoexcitation at 266 nm via a singlet pathway with time-resolved valence and core-level photoelectron spectroscopy with an x-ray free-electron laser. Valence photoelectron spectra are used to identify free CO molecules and to determine the time constants of stepwise dissociation to Fe(CO)4 within the temporal resolution of the experiment and further to Fe(CO)3 within 3 ps. Fe 3p core-level photoelectron spectra directly reflect the singlet spin state of the Fe center in Fe(CO)5, Fe(CO)4, and Fe(CO)3 showing that the dissociation exclusively occurs along a singlet pathway without triplet-state contribution. Our results are important for assessing intra- and intermolecular relaxation processes in the photodissociation dynamics of the prototypical Fe(CO)5 complex in the gas phase and in solution, and they establish time-resolved core-level photoelectron spectroscopy as a powerful tool for determining the multiplicity of transition metals in photochemical reactions of coordination complexes.
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- Ph Wernet
- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Stockholm University, AlbaNova University Center, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- European XFEL GmbH, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- European XFEL GmbH, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- European XFEL GmbH, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Stockholm University, AlbaNova University Center, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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Kunnus K, Josefsson I, Rajkovic I, Schreck S, Quevedo W, Beye M, Weniger C, Grübel S, Scholz M, Nordlund D, Zhang W, Hartsock RW, Gaffney KJ, Schlotter WF, Turner JJ, Kennedy B, Hennies F, de Groot FMF, Techert S, Odelius M, Wernet P, Föhlisch A. Identification of the dominant photochemical pathways and mechanistic insights to the ultrafast ligand exchange of Fe(CO)5 to Fe(CO)4EtOH. STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS (MELVILLE, N.Y.) 2016; 3:043204. [PMID: 26958587 PMCID: PMC4752567 DOI: 10.1063/1.4941602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2015] [Accepted: 01/22/2016] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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We utilized femtosecond time-resolved resonant inelastic X-ray scattering and ab initio theory to study the transient electronic structure and the photoinduced molecular dynamics of a model metal carbonyl photocatalyst Fe(CO)5 in ethanol solution. We propose mechanistic explanation for the parallel ultrafast intra-molecular spin crossover and ligation of the Fe(CO)4 which are observed following a charge transfer photoexcitation of Fe(CO)5 as reported in our previous study [Wernet et al., Nature 520, 78 (2015)]. We find that branching of the reaction pathway likely happens in the (1)A1 state of Fe(CO)4. A sub-picosecond time constant of the spin crossover from (1)B2 to (3)B2 is rationalized by the proposed (1)B2 → (1)A1 → (3)B2 mechanism. Ultrafast ligation of the (1)B2 Fe(CO)4 state is significantly faster than the spin-forbidden and diffusion limited ligation process occurring from the (3)B2 Fe(CO)4 ground state that has been observed in the previous studies. We propose that the ultrafast ligation occurs via (1)B2 → (1)A1 → (1)A' Fe(CO)4EtOH pathway and the time scale of the (1)A1 Fe(CO)4 state ligation is governed by the solute-solvent collision frequency. Our study emphasizes the importance of understanding the interaction of molecular excited states with the surrounding environment to explain the relaxation pathways of photoexcited metal carbonyls in solution.
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- Department of Physics, Stockholm University , AlbaNova University Centre, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry , Am Fassberg 11, 37070 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research , Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research , Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research , Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry , Am Fassberg 11, 37070 Göttingen, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry , Am Fassberg 11, 37070 Göttingen, Germany
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research , Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- MAX-lab , P.O. Box 118, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, Utrecht University , Universiteitsweg 99, 3584 CG Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Physics, Stockholm University , AlbaNova University Centre, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research , Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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Berg M, Paulus B, Bredtmann T. Electronic quantum fluxes in vibrating symmetric and polar single, double and triple bonds. Mol Phys 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2015.1122843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Matthias Berg
- Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Atkin JM, Sass PM, Teichen PE, Eaves JD, Raschke MB. Nanoscale probing of dynamics in local molecular environments. J Phys Chem Lett 2015; 6:4616-4621. [PMID: 26528865 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02093] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Vibrational spectroscopy can provide information about structure, coupling, and dynamics underlying the properties of complex molecular systems. While measurements of spectral line broadening can probe local chemical environments, the spatial averaging in conventional spectroscopies limits insight into underlying heterogeneity, in particular in disordered molecular solids. Here, using femtosecond infrared scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy (IR s-SNOM), we resolve in vibrational free-induction decay (FID) measurements a high degree of spatial heterogeneity in polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) as a dense molecular model system. In nanoscopic probe volumes as small as 10(3) vibrational oscillators, we approach the homogeneous response limit, with extended vibrational dephasing times of several picoseconds, that is, up to 10 times the inhomogeneous lifetime, and spatial average converging to the bulk ensemble response. We simulate the dynamics of relaxation with a finite set of local vibrational transitions subject to random modulations in frequency. The combined results suggest that the observed heterogeneity arises due to static and dynamic variations in the local molecular environment. This approach thus provides real-space and real-time visualization of the subensemble dynamics that define the properties of many functional materials.
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- Joanna M Atkin
- Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry, and JILA, University of Colorado , Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, United States
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- Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry, and JILA, University of Colorado , Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- Environmental and Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory , Richland, Washington 99354, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado , Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado , Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry, and JILA, University of Colorado , Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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Iikubo R, Fujiwara T, Sekikawa T, Harabuchi Y, Satoh S, Taketsugu T, Kayanuma Y. Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Dissociating 1,2-Butadiene Molecules by High Harmonic Pulses. J Phys Chem Lett 2015; 6:2463-2468. [PMID: 26266720 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Using 42 nm high harmonic pulses, the dissociation dynamics of 1,2-butadiene was investigated by time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (TRPES), enabling us to observe dynamical changes of multiple molecular orbitals (MOs) with higher temporal resolution than conventional light sources. Because each lower-lying occupied MO has particular spatial electron distribution, the structural dynamics of photochemical reaction can be revealed. On the femtosecond time scale, a short-lived excited state with a lifetime of 37 ± 15 fs and the coherent oscillation of the photoelectron yield stimulated by Hertzberg-Teller coupling were observed. Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations in the electronically excited state find three relaxation pathways from the vertically excited structure in S1 to the ground state, and one of them is the dominant relaxation pathway, observed as the short-lived excited state. On the picosecond time scale, the photoelectron yields related to the C-C bond decreased upon photoexcitation, indicating C-C bond cleavage.
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- Ryo Iikubo
- †Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Kita 13 Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan
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- †Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Kita 13 Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan
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- †Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Kita 13 Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan
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- ‡Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Kita 10 Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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- ‡Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Kita 10 Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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- ‡Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Kita 10 Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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- §Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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Sellberg JA, Kaya S, Segtnan VH, Chen C, Tyliszczak T, Ogasawara H, Nordlund D, Pettersson LGM, Nilsson A. Comparison of x-ray absorption spectra between water and ice: new ice data with low pre-edge absorption cross-section. J Chem Phys 2015; 141:034507. [PMID: 25053326 DOI: 10.1063/1.4890035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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The effect of crystal growth conditions on the O K-edge x-ray absorption spectra of ice is investigated through detailed analysis of the spectral features. The amount of ice defects is found to be minimized on hydrophobic surfaces, such as BaF2(111), with low concentration of nucleation centers. This is manifested through a reduction of the absorption cross-section at 535 eV, which is associated with distorted hydrogen bonds. Furthermore, a connection is made between the observed increase in spectral intensity between 544 and 548 eV and high-symmetry points in the electronic band structure, suggesting a more extended hydrogen-bond network as compared to ices prepared differently. The spectral differences for various ice preparations are compared to the temperature dependence of spectra of liquid water upon supercooling. A double-peak feature in the absorption cross-section between 540 and 543 eV is identified as a characteristic of the crystalline phase. The connection to the interpretation of the liquid phase O K-edge x-ray absorption spectrum is extensively discussed.
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- Jonas A Sellberg
- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 20450, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, P.O. Box 20450, Stanford, California 94309, USA
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Tracing dissociation dynamics of CH3Br in the 3Q0 state with femtosecond extreme ultraviolet ionization. Chem Phys 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2014.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Stimulated X-ray emission for materials science. Nature 2013; 501:191-4. [DOI: 10.1038/nature12449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2012] [Accepted: 07/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Bredtmann T, Paulus B. Electron–Nuclear Motion in the Cope Rearrangement of Semibullvalene: Ever Synchronous? J Chem Theory Comput 2013; 9:3026-34. [DOI: 10.1021/ct400318z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Timm Bredtmann
- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustr. 3, 14195
Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie und Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustr. 3, 14195
Berlin, Germany
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Wernet P, Beye M, de Groot F, Düsterer S, Gaffney K, Grübel S, Hartsock R, Hennies F, Josefsson I, Kennedy B, Kunnus K, Leitner T, Mazza T, Meyer M, Nordlund D, Odelius M, Quevedo W, Radcliffe P, Rajkovic I, Schlotter B, Scholz M, Schreck S, Suljoti E, Techert S, Turner J, Weniger C, Zhang W, Föhlisch A. Mapping chemical bonding of reaction intermediates with femtosecond X-ray laser spectroscopy. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2013. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/20134105025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Petek H. Photoexcitation of adsorbates on metal surfaces: one-step or three-step. J Chem Phys 2013; 137:091704. [PMID: 22957546 DOI: 10.1063/1.4746801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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In this essay we discuss the light-matter interactions at molecule-covered metal surfaces that initiate surface photochemistry. The hot-electron mechanism for surface photochemistry, whereby the absorption of light by a metal surface creates an electron-hole pair, and the hot electron scatters through an unoccupied resonance of adsorbate to initiate nuclear dynamics leading to photochemistry, has become widely accepted. Yet, ultrafast spectroscopic measurements of molecule-surface electronic structure and photoexcitation dynamics provide scant support for the hot electron mechanism. Instead, in most cases the adsorbate resonances are excited through photoinduced substrate-to-adsorbate charge transfer. Based on recent studies of the role of coherence in adsorbate photoexcitation, as measured by the optical phase and momentum resolved two-photon photoemission measurements, we examine critically the hot electron mechanism, and propose an alternative description based on direct charge transfer of electrons from the substrate to adsorbate. The advantage of this more quantum mechanically rigorous description is that it informs how material properties of the substrate and adsorbate, as well as their interaction, influence the frequency dependent probability of photoexcitation and ultimately how light can be used to probe and control surface femtochemistry.
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- Hrvoje Petek
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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Wernet P, Kunnus K, Schreck S, Quevedo W, Kurian R, Techert S, de Groot FMF, Odelius M, Föhlisch A. Dissecting Local Atomic and Intermolecular Interactions of Transition-Metal Ions in Solution with Selective X-ray Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2012; 3:3448-3453. [PMID: 26290971 DOI: 10.1021/jz301486u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Determining covalent and charge-transfer contributions to bonding in solution has remained an experimental challenge. Here, the quenching of fluorescence decay channels as expressed in dips in the L-edge X-ray spectra of solvated 3d transition-metal ions and complexes was reported as a probe. With a full set of experimental and theoretical ab initio L-edge X-ray spectra of aqueous Cr(3+), including resonant inelastic X-ray scattering, we address covalency and charge transfer for this prototypical transition-metal ion in solution. We dissect local atomic effects from intermolecular interactions and quantify X-ray optical effects. We find no evidence for the asserted ultrafast charge transfer to the solvent and show that the dips are readily explained by X-ray optical effects and local atomic state dependence of the fluorescence yield. Instead, we find, besides ionic interactions, a covalent contribution to the bonding in the aqueous complex of ligand-to-metal charge-transfer character.
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- Philippe Wernet
- †Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- †Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
- ‡Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24/25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- †Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
- ‡Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24/25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- †Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- #Structural Dynamics of (Bio)chemical Systems, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, 37070 Göttingen, Germany
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- ∥Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- †Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
- ‡Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24/25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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Kunnus K, Rajkovic I, Schreck S, Quevedo W, Eckert S, Beye M, Suljoti E, Weniger C, Kalus C, Grübel S, Scholz M, Nordlund D, Zhang W, Hartsock RW, Gaffney KJ, Schlotter WF, Turner JJ, Kennedy B, Hennies F, Techert S, Wernet P, Föhlisch A. A setup for resonant inelastic soft x-ray scattering on liquids at free electron laser light sources. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2012; 83:123109. [PMID: 23277974 DOI: 10.1063/1.4772685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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We present a flexible and compact experimental setup that combines an in vacuum liquid jet with an x-ray emission spectrometer to enable static and femtosecond time-resolved resonant inelastic soft x-ray scattering (RIXS) measurements from liquids at free electron laser (FEL) light sources. We demonstrate the feasibility of this type of experiments with the measurements performed at the Linac Coherent Light Source FEL facility. At the FEL we observed changes in the RIXS spectra at high peak fluences which currently sets a limit to maximum attainable count rate at FELs. The setup presented here opens up new possibilities to study the structure and dynamics in liquids.
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- Kristjan Kunnus
- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin GmbH, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
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Igarashi H, Makida A, Ito M, Sekikawa T. Pulse compression of phase-matched high harmonic pulses from a time-delay compensated monochromator. OPTICS EXPRESS 2012; 20:3725-3732. [PMID: 22418130 DOI: 10.1364/oe.20.003725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Single 32.6 eV high harmonic pulses from a time-delay compensated monochromator were compressed down to 11 ± 3 fs by completely compensating for the pulse-front tilt. The photon flux was intensified up to 5.7×10(9) photons/s on target by implementing high harmonic generation under a phase matching condition in a hollow fiber used for increasing the interaction length. The output photon flux on target from the monochromator was comparable to that from a small synchrotron facility, while the pulse duration was more than three orders of magnitude shorter. This high harmonic beam line fulfills two requirements for time-resolved spectroscopy in extreme ultraviolet region, namely, ultrashort pulses and high photon flux.
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- Hironori Igarashi
- Department of Applied Physics, Hokkaido University, Kita 13 Nishi 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan
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Lange KM, Kothe A, Aziz EF. Chemistry in solution: recent techniques and applications using soft X-ray spectroscopy. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:5331-8. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cp24028a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Bredtmann T, Hupf E, Paulus B. Electronic fluxes during large amplitude vibrations of single, double and triple bonds. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:15494-501. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cp42494k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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