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Michon MA, Chmielniak P, Weber PM, Rose-Petruck C. Two-photon chemistry of tetrahydrofuran in clathrate hydrates. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:2568-2579. [PMID: 38170862 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp02607h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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High-lying electronic states hold the potential for new and unusual photochemical reactions. However, for conventional single-photon excitation in the condensed phase, reaching these states is often not possible because the vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV) light required is competitively absorbed by the surrounding matrix rather than the molecule of interest. Here, this hurdle is overcome by leveraging nonresonant two-photon absorption (2PA) at 265 nm to achieve preferential photolysis of tetrahydrofuran (THF) trapped within a clathrate hydrate network at 77 K. Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy enables direct observation and identification of otherwise short-lived organic radicals stabilized by the clathrate cages, providing clues into the rapid dynamics that immediately follow photoexcitation. 2PA induces extensive fragmentation of enclathrated THF yielding 1-alkyl, acyl, allyl and methyl radicals-a stark departure from the reactive motifs commonly reported in γ-irradiated hydrates. We speculate on the undetected transient dynamics and explore the potential role of trapped electrons generated from water and THF. This demonstration of nonresonant two-photon chemistry presents an alternative approach to targeted condensed phase photochemistry in the VUV energy range.
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- Michael A Michon
- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, 02912, Rhode Island, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, 02912, Rhode Island, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, 02912, Rhode Island, USA.
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Nimmrich A, Panman MR, Berntsson O, Biasin E, Niebling S, Petersson J, Hoernke M, Björling A, Gustavsson E, van Driel TB, Dohn AO, Laursen M, Zederkof DB, Tono K, Katayama T, Owada S, Nielsen MM, Davidsson J, Uhlig J, Hub JS, Haldrup K, Westenhoff S. Solvent-Dependent Structural Dynamics in the Ultrafast Photodissociation Reaction of Triiodide Observed with Time-Resolved X-ray Solution Scattering. J Am Chem Soc 2023. [PMID: 37163700 PMCID: PMC10375522 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c00484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Resolving the structural dynamics of bond breaking, bond formation, and solvation is required for a deeper understanding of solution-phase chemical reactions. In this work, we investigate the photodissociation of triiodide in four solvents using femtosecond time-resolved X-ray solution scattering following 400 nm photoexcitation. Structural analysis of the scattering data resolves the solvent-dependent structural evolution during the bond cleavage, internal rearrangements, solvent-cage escape, and bond reformation in real time. The nature and structure of the reaction intermediates during the recombination are determined, elucidating the full mechanism of photodissociation and recombination on ultrafast time scales. We resolve the structure of the precursor state for recombination as a geminate pair. Further, we determine the size of the solvent cages from the refined structures of the radical pair. The observed structural dynamics present a comprehensive picture of the solvent influence on structure and dynamics of dissociation reactions.
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- Amke Nimmrich
- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Box 462, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Box 462, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Box 462, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Box 462, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Box 523, 75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Box 462, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Box 462, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Box 462, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
- Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland, VR-III, 107 Reykjavík, Iceland
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- Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Box 523, 75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Box 124, 22100 Lund, Sweden
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- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Institute for Microbiology and Genetics, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 11, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Box 462, 40530 Gothenburg, Sweden
- Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Box 124, 22100 Lund, Sweden
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Redox-active ligands for chemical, electrochemical, and photochemical molecular conversions. Coord Chem Rev 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2022.214804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Different timescales during ultrafast stilbene isomerization in the gas and liquid phases revealed using time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. Nat Chem 2022; 14:1126-1132. [PMID: 35953643 PMCID: PMC7613649 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-022-01012-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2020] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Directly contrasting ultrafast excited-state dynamics in the gas and liquid phases is crucial to understanding the influence of complex environments. Previous studies have often relied on different spectroscopic observables, rendering direct comparisons challenging. Here, we apply extreme-ultraviolet time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy to both gaseous and liquid cis-stilbene, revealing the coupled electronic and nuclear dynamics that underlie its isomerization. Our measurements track the excited-state wave packets from excitation along the complete reaction path to the final products. We observe coherent excited-state vibrational dynamics in both phases of matter that persist to the final products, enabling the characterization of the branching space of the S1-S0 conical intersection. We observe a systematic lengthening of the relaxation timescales in the liquid phase and a red shift of the measured excited-state frequencies that is most pronounced for the complex reaction coordinate. These results characterize in detail the influence of the liquid environment on both electronic and structural dynamics during a complete photochemical transformation.
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Abe K, Nakada A, Matsumoto T, Uchijyo D, Mori H, Chang HC. Functional Group-Directed Photochemical Reactions of Aromatic Alcohols, Amines, and Thiols Triggered by Excited-State Hydrogen Detachment: Additive-free Oligomerization, Disulfidation, and C(sp 2)-H Carboxylation with CO 2. J Org Chem 2021; 86:959-969. [PMID: 33211498 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c02456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Exploring new types of photochemical reactions is of great interest in the field of synthetic chemistry. Although excited-state hydrogen detachment (ESHD) represents a promising prospective template for additive-free photochemical reactions, applications of ESHD in a synthetic context remains scarce. Herein, we demonstrate the expansion of this photochemical reaction toward oligomerization, disulfidation, and regioselective C(sp2)-H carboxylation of aromatic alcohols, thiols, and amines. In the absence of any radical initiators in tetrahydrofuran upon irradiation with UV light (λ = 280 or 300 nm) under an atmosphere of N2 or CO2, thiols and catechol afforded disulfides and oligomers, respectively, as main products. Especially, the photochemical disulfidation proceeded highly selectively with the NMR and quantum yields of up to 69 and 0.46%, respectively. In stark contrast, the photolysis of phenylenediamines and aminophenols results in photocarboxylation in the presence of CO2 (1 atm). p-Aminophenol was quantitatively carboxylated by photolysis for 17 h with a quantum yield of 0.45%. Furthermore, the photocarboxylation of phenylenediamines and aminophenols proceeds in a highly selective fashion on the aromatic C(sp2)-H bond next to a functional group, which is directed by the site-selective ESHD of the functional groups for the formation of aminyl and hydroxyl radicals.
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- Kanae Abe
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan.,Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan.,Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan.,Department of Theoretical and Computational Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan
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Nakada A, Koike T, Matsumoto T, Chang HC. Excited-state hydrogen detachment from a tris-(o-phenylenediamine) iron(ii) complex in THF at room temperature. Chem Commun (Camb) 2020; 56:15414-15417. [PMID: 33284915 DOI: 10.1039/d0cc06219g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We previously reported that a tris-(o-phenylenediamine) iron(ii) complex promotes photochemical H2 generation and C-H carboxylation of o-phenylenediamine without any additives under N2 and CO2 atmospheres, respectively, in tetrahydrofuran at room temperature. Herein, the key mechanistic process, namely, excited-state hydrogen detachment from the o-phenylendiamine moiety, is demonstrated under an N2 atmosphere.
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- Akinobu Nakada
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Chuo University, 1-13-27 Kasuga, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8551, Japan.
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Kim H, Kim JG, Kim TW, Lee SJ, Nozawa S, Adachi SI, Yoon K, Kim J, Ihee H. Ultrafast structural dynamics of in-cage isomerization of diiodomethane in solution. Chem Sci 2020; 12:2114-2120. [PMID: 34163975 PMCID: PMC8179290 DOI: 10.1039/d0sc05108j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Despite extensive studies on the isomer species formed by photodissociation of haloalkanes in solution, the molecular structure of the precursor of the isomer, which is often assumed to be a vibrationally hot isomer formed from the radical pair, and its in-cage isomerization mechanism remain elusive. Here, the structural dynamics of CH2I2 upon 267 nm photoexcitation in methanol were probed with femtosecond X-ray solution scattering at an X-ray free-electron laser. The determined molecular structure of the transiently formed species that converts to the CH2I–I isomer has the I–I distance of 4.17 Å, which is longer than that of the isomer (3.15 Å) by more than 1.0 Å and the mean-squared displacement of 0.45 Å2, which is about 100 times larger than those of typical regular chemical bonds. These unusual structural characteristics are consistent with either a vibrationally hot form of the CH2I–I isomer or the loosely-bound radical pair (CH2I˙⋯I˙). The structural dynamics of in-cage isomerization of CH2I2 and the unusual structure of the loosely-bound isomer precursor were unveiled with femtosecond X-ray liquidography (solution scattering).![]()
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- Hanui Kim
- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Daejeon 34141 Republic of Korea .,KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Daejeon 34141 Republic of Korea.,Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Daejeon 34141 Republic of Korea
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- Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Daejeon 34141 Republic of Korea
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- Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Daejeon 34141 Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Daejeon 34141 Republic of Korea .,KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Daejeon 34141 Republic of Korea.,Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Daejeon 34141 Republic of Korea
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- Photon Factory, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0801 Japan.,Department of Materials Structure Science, School of High Energy Accelerator Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0801 Japan
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- Photon Factory, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0801 Japan.,Department of Materials Structure Science, School of High Energy Accelerator Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0801 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, The Catholic University of Korea Bucheon 14662 Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, The Catholic University of Korea Bucheon 14662 Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Daejeon 34141 Republic of Korea .,KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Daejeon 34141 Republic of Korea.,Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS) Daejeon 34141 Republic of Korea
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Ledbetter K, Biasin E, Nunes JPF, Centurion M, Gaffney KJ, Kozina M, Lin MF, Shen X, Yang J, Wang XJ, Wolf TJA, Cordones AA. Photodissociation of aqueous I 3 - observed with liquid-phase ultrafast mega-electron-volt electron diffraction. STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS (MELVILLE, N.Y.) 2020; 7:064901. [PMID: 33415183 PMCID: PMC7771998 DOI: 10.1063/4.0000051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2020] [Accepted: 11/22/2020] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Developing femtosecond resolution methods for directly observing structural dynamics is critical to understanding complex photochemical reaction mechanisms in solution. We have used two recent developments, ultrafast mega-electron-volt electron sources and vacuum compatible sub-micron thick liquid sheet jets, to enable liquid-phase ultrafast electron diffraction (LUED). We have demonstrated the viability of LUED by investigating the photodissociation of tri-iodide initiated with a 400 nm laser pulse. This has enabled the average speed of the bond expansion to be measured during the first 750 fs of dissociation and the geminate recombination to be directly captured on the picosecond time scale.
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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Park S, Lee T, Shin J, Yoon H, Pak Y, Lim M. Conformer-Specific Photodissociation Dynamics of CF2ICF2I in Solution Probed by Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:8640-8650. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c06241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Seongchul Park
- Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute for Functional Materials, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute for Functional Materials, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute for Functional Materials, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute for Functional Materials, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute for Functional Materials, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute for Functional Materials, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Korea
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Henley A, Riley J, Wang B, Fielding HH. An experimental and computational study of the effect of aqueous solution on the multiphoton ionisation photoelectron spectrum of phenol. Faraday Discuss 2020; 221:202-218. [DOI: 10.1039/c9fd00079h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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We revisit the photoelectron spectroscopy of aqueous phenol in an effort to improve our understanding of the impact of inhomogeneous broadening and inelastic scattering on solution-phase photoelectron spectra.
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- Alice Henley
- Department of Chemistry
- University College London
- London WC1H 0AJ
- UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- University College London
- London WC1H 0AJ
- UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- University College London
- London WC1H 0AJ
- UK
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Wang L, Zhang S, Wang Y, Zhang B. Dispersion-induced structural preference in the ultrafast dynamics of diphenyl ether. RSC Adv 2020; 10:18093-18098. [PMID: 35517230 PMCID: PMC9053750 DOI: 10.1039/d0ra02224a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2020] [Accepted: 04/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Dispersion interactions are omnipresent in large aromatic systems and influence the dynamics as intermolecular forces. The structural preference induced by dispersion interactions is demonstrated to influence the excited state dynamics of diphenyl ether (DPE) using femtosecond time-resolved transient absorption (TA) associated with quantum chemical calculations. The experimental results in aprotic solvents show that the S1 state is populated upon irradiation at 267 nm with excess vibrational energy dissipating to solvent molecules in several picoseconds, and then decays via internal conversion (IC) within 50 ps as well as intersystem crossing (ISC) and fluorescence with a lifetime of nanoseconds. The polarity of the solvent disturbs the excited state energies and enhances the energy barriers of the ISC channel. Furthermore, the intermolecular dispersion interactions with protic solvents result in the OH–π isomer dominating in methanol and the OH–O isomer is slightly preferred in t-butanol in the ground state. The hydrogen bonded isomer measurements show an additional change from OH–O to OH–π geometry in the first 1 ps besides the relaxation processes in aprotic solvents. The time constants measured in the TA spectra suggest that the OH–O isomer facilitates IC. The results show that the OH–π isomer has a more rigid structure and a higher barrier for IC, making it harder to reach the geometric conical intersection through conformer rearrangement. This work enables us to have a good knowledge of how the structural preference induced by dispersion interactions affects excited state dynamics of the heteroaromatic compounds. Dispersion interactions are omnipresent in large aromatic systems and influence the dynamics as intermolecular forces.![]()
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- Lian Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Wuhan 430071
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Wuhan 430071
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Wuhan 430071
- China
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Wuhan 430071
- China
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Moore Tibbetts K. Coherent Vibrational and Dissociation Dynamics of Polyatomic Radical Cations. Chemistry 2019; 25:8431-8439. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201900363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2019] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Zhang X, Harvey JN. EVB and polarizable MM study of energy relaxation in fluorine–acetonitrile reactions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:14331-14340. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp06686h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Many-body effects can impact on rates of energy transfer from a ‘hot’ DF solute to acetonitrile solvent.
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- Xiaoyong Zhang
- Department of Chemistry and Division of Quantum Chemistry and Physical Chemistry
- KU Leuven
- B-3001 Leuven
- Belgium
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- Department of Chemistry and Division of Quantum Chemistry and Physical Chemistry
- KU Leuven
- B-3001 Leuven
- Belgium
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Park S, Shin J, Yoon H, Pak Y, Lim M. Complete photodissociation dynamics of CF2I2in solution. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:6859-6867. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cp00507b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Photoexcited CF2I2in c-C6H12undergoes various secondary reactions including complex and isomer formation, after ultrafast two- or three-body dissociations.
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- Seongchul Park
- Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute for Functional Materials
- Pusan National University
- Busan 46241
- Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute for Functional Materials
- Pusan National University
- Busan 46241
- Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute for Functional Materials
- Pusan National University
- Busan 46241
- Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute for Functional Materials
- Pusan National University
- Busan 46241
- Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute for Functional Materials
- Pusan National University
- Busan 46241
- Korea
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Grieco C, Kohl FR, Zhang Y, Natarajan S, Blancafort L, Kohler B. Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding Modulates O-H Photodissociation in Molecular Aggregates of a Catechol Derivative. Photochem Photobiol 2018; 95:163-175. [PMID: 30317633 DOI: 10.1111/php.13035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2018] [Accepted: 10/01/2018] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The catechol functional group plays a major role in the chemistry of a wide variety of molecules important in biology and technology. In eumelanin, intermolecular hydrogen bonding between these functional groups is thought to contribute to UV photoprotective and radical buffering properties, but the mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, aggregates of 4-t-butylcatechol are used as model systems to study how intermolecular hydrogen bonding influences photochemical pathways that may occur in eumelanin. Ultrafast UV-visible and mid-IR transient absorption measurements are used to identify the photochemical processes of 4-t-butylcatechol monomers and their hydrogen-bonded aggregates in cyclohexane solution. Monomer photoexcitation results in hydrogen atom ejection to the solvent via homolytic O-H bond dissociation with a time constant of 12 ps, producing a neutral semiquinone radical with a lifetime greater than 1 ns. In contrast, intermolecular hydrogen bonding interactions within aggregates retard O-H bond photodissociation by over an order of magnitude in time. Excited state structural relaxation is proposed to slow O-H dissociation, allowing internal conversion to the ground state to occur in hundreds of picoseconds in competition with this channel. The semiquinone radicals formed in the aggregates exhibit spectral broadening of both their electronic and vibrational transitions.
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- Christopher Grieco
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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- Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi and Departament de Química, Facultat de Ciències, Universitat de Girona, Girona, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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Miyazaki M, Washio N, Fujii M. Electron-proton transfer mechanism of excited-state hydrogen transfer in phenol−(NH3) (n = 5) studied by delayed ionization detected femtosecond time-resolved NIR spectroscopy. Chem Phys 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2018.08.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Zhu GZ, Qian CH, Wang LS. Dipole-bound excited states and resonant photoelectron imaging of phenoxide and thiophenoxide anions. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:164301. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5049715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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- Guo-Zhu Zhu
- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA
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Ashfold MNR, Yuan K, Yang X. Perspective: The development and applications of H Rydberg atom translational spectroscopy methods. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:080901. [PMID: 30193478 DOI: 10.1063/1.5047911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 457 Zhongshan Road, Dalian 116023, China
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The dynamics of chemical reactions in liquid solutions are now amenable to direct study using ultrafast laser spectroscopy techniques and advances in computer simulation methods. The surrounding solvent affects the chemical reaction dynamics in numerous ways, which include: (i) formation of complexes between reactants and solvent molecules; (ii) modifications to transition state energies and structures relative to the reactants and products; (iii) coupling between the motions of the reacting molecules and the solvent modes, and exchange of energy; (iv) solvent caging of reactants and products; and (v) structural changes to the solvation shells in response to the changing chemical identity of the solutes, on timescales which may be slower than the reactive events. This article reviews progress in the study of bimolecular chemical reaction dynamics in solution, concentrating on reactions which occur on ground electronic states. It illustrates this progress with reference to recent experimental and computational studies, and considers how the various ways in which a solvent affects the chemical reaction dynamics can be unravelled. Implications are considered for research in fields such as mechanistic synthetic chemistry.
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- Andrew J Orr-Ewing
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK.
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Riley JW, Wang B, Woodhouse JL, Assmann M, Worth GA, Fielding HH. Unravelling the Role of an Aqueous Environment on the Electronic Structure and Ionization of Phenol Using Photoelectron Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2018; 9:678-682. [PMID: 29356540 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b03310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Water is the predominant medium for chemistry and biology, yet its role in determining how molecules respond to ultraviolet light is not well understood at the molecular level. Here, we combine gas-phase and liquid-microjet photoelectron spectroscopy to investigate how an aqueous environment influences the electronic structure and relaxation dynamics of phenol, a ubiquitous motif in many biologically relevant chromophores. The vertical ionization energies of electronically excited states are important quantities that govern the rates of charge-transfer reactions, and, in phenol, the vertical ionization energy of the first electronically excited state is found to be lowered by around 0.8 eV in aqueous solution. The initial relaxation dynamics following photoexcitation with ultraviolet light appear to be remarkably similar in the gas-phase and aqueous solution; however, in aqueous solution, we find evidence to suggest that solvated electrons are formed on an ultrafast time scale following photoexcitation just above the conical intersection between the first two excited electronic states.
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- Jamie W Riley
- Department of Chemistry, University College London , 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London , 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London , 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London , 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London , 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London , 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, United Kingdom
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Guan J, Daljeet R, Song Y. Pressure-selected reactivity between 2-butyne and water induced by two-photon excitation. CAN J CHEM 2017. [DOI: 10.1139/cjc-2017-0155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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High-pressure photochemistry between 2-butyne (H3CC≡CCH3) and trace amount of H2O was investigated at room temperature using multiline UV radiation at λ ≈ 350 nm and monitored by FTIR spectroscopy. Instead of the expected polymerization of 2-butyne, the IR spectral analysis suggests the formation of cis- and trans-2-butene, as well as 2-butanone, as the primary products. The possible reaction mechanisms and production pathways of these products were examined, where the dissociation of water molecule as the other reactant is believed as the essential step of the photochemical reaction. We further found that initial loading pressure of the mixture can not only substantially influence the reaction kinetics, but also regulate the accessibilities to some reaction channels, which was evidenced by quantitative analysis of the characteristic IR bands of 2-butene and 2-butanone. The relative abundance of two products is found to be highly dependent on pressure and radiation time. This study provides attractive physical routes in the absence of solvents, catalysts, and radical initiators, to synthesis the relevant products with a great selectivity and feasibility.
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- Jiwen Guan
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada
- Department of Chemistry, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 5B7, Canada
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Coulter PM, Grubb MP, Orr-Ewing AJ. Conformer-specific geminate recombination following methyl nitrite photolysis in solution. Chem Phys Lett 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2017.01.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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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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Ashfold MN, Murdock D, Oliver TA. Molecular Photofragmentation Dynamics in the Gas and Condensed Phases. Annu Rev Phys Chem 2017; 68:63-82. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-052516-050756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Exciting a molecule with an ultraviolet photon often leads to bond fission, but the final outcome of the bond cleavage is typically both molecule and phase dependent. The photodissociation of an isolated gas-phase molecule can be viewed as a closed system: Energy and momentum are conserved, and the fragmentation is irreversible. The same is not true in a solution-phase photodissociation process. Solvent interactions may dissipate some of the photoexcitation energy prior to bond fission and will dissipate any excess energy partitioned into the dissociation products. Products that have no analog in the corresponding gas-phase study may arise by, for example, geminate recombination. Here, we illustrate the extent to which dynamical insights from gas-phase studies can inform our understanding of the corresponding solution-phase photochemistry and how, in the specific case of photoinduced ring-opening reactions, solution-phase studies can in some cases reveal dynamical insights more clearly than the corresponding gas-phase study.
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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Horbury MD, Baker LA, Rodrigues ND, Quan WD, Stavros VG. Photoisomerization of ethyl ferulate: A solution phase transient absorption study. Chem Phys Lett 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2017.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Couch DE, Kapteyn HC, Murnane MM, Peters WK. Uncovering Highly-Excited State Mixing in Acetone Using Ultrafast VUV Pulses and Coincidence Imaging Techniques. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:2361-2366. [PMID: 28267341 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b01112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Understanding the ultrafast dynamics of highly excited electronic states of small molecules is critical for a better understanding of atmospheric and astrophysical processes, as well as for designing coherent control strategies for manipulating chemical dynamics. In highly excited states, nonadiabatic coupling, electron-electron interactions, and the high density of states govern dynamics. However, these states are computationally and experimentally challenging to access. Fortunately, new sources of ultrafast vacuum ultraviolet pulses, in combination with electron-ion coincidence spectroscopies, provide new tools to unravel the complex electronic landscape. Here we report time-resolved photoelectron-photoion coincidence experiments using 8 eV pump photons to study the highly excited states of acetone. We uncover for the first time direct evidence that the resulting excited state consists of a mixture of both ny → 3p and π → π* character, which decays with a time constant of 330 fs. In the future, this approach can inform models of VUV photochemistry and aid in designing coherent control strategies for manipulating chemical reactions.
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- David E Couch
- JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado , Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado , Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado , Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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- JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado , Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
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Baker LA, Greenough SE, Stavros VG. A Perspective on the Ultrafast Photochemistry of Solution-Phase Sunscreen Molecules. J Phys Chem Lett 2016; 7:4655-4665. [PMID: 27791379 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Sunscreens are one of the most common ways of providing on-demand additional photoprotection to the skin. Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy has recently proven to be an invaluable tool in understanding how the components of commercial sunscreen products display efficient photoprotection. Important examples of how this technique has unravelled the photodynamics of common components are given in this Perspective, and some of the remaining unanswered questions are discussed.
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- Lewis A Baker
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick , Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield , Sheffield S3 7HF, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick , Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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Quan WD, Pitto-Barry A, Baker LA, Stulz E, Napier R, O'Reilly RK, Stavros VG. Retaining individualities: the photodynamics of self-ordering porphyrin assemblies. Chem Commun (Camb) 2016; 52:1938-41. [PMID: 26680651 PMCID: PMC4720934 DOI: 10.1039/c5cc09095d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Retained photochemical properties – a simple porphyrin–polyDMA conjugate with the ability to self assemble into large (∼1 μm) vesicles in water. The photodynamics are remarkably preserved despite the extensive aggregation.
The retention of photochemical properties of individual chromophores is a key feature of biological light harvesting complexes. This is achieved despite extensive aggregation of the chromophores, which in synthetic chromophore assemblies often yields a change in spectral characteristics. As an alternative approach towards mimicking biological light harvesting complexes, we report the synthesis of porphyrin assemblies which retained the photochemical properties of the individual chromophore units despite their substantial aggregation. These new materials highlight a new bottom-up approach towards the design and understanding of more complex biomimetic and naturally occurring biological systems.
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- Wen-Dong Quan
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, UK. and Molecular Organisation and Assembly of Cells Doctoral Training Center (MOAC DTC), University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, UK. and Molecular Organisation and Assembly of Cells Doctoral Training Center (MOAC DTC), University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, UK
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- School of Chemistry & Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK
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- School of Life Science, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, UK.
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Han Y, Kilin DS, May PS, Berry MT, Meng Q. Photofragmentation Pathways for Gas-Phase Lanthanide Tris(isopropylcyclopentadienyl) Complexes. Organometallics 2016. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Yulun Han
- Department of Chemistry, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58108, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069, United States
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- Shenyang Institute of Automation, Guangzhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 511458, China
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Montero R, León I, Fernández JA, Longarte A. Femtosecond Excited State Dynamics of Size Selected Neutral Molecular Clusters. J Phys Chem Lett 2016; 7:2797-2802. [PMID: 27388417 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The work describes a novel experimental approach to track the relaxation dynamics of an electronically excited distribution of neutral molecular clusters formed in a supersonic expansion, by pump-probe femtosecond ionization. The introduced method overcomes fragmentation issues and makes possible to retrieve the dynamical signature of a particular cluster from each mass channel, by associating it to an IR transition of the targeted structure. We have applied the technique to study the nonadiabatic relaxation of pyrrole homoclusters. The results obtained exciting at 243 nm, near the origin of the bare pyrrole electronic absorption, allow us to identify the dynamical signature of the dimer (Py)2, which exhibits a distinctive lifetime of τ1 ∼ 270 fs, considerably longer than the decays recorded for the monomer and bigger size clusters (Py)n>2. A possible relationship between the measured lifetime and the clusters geometries is tentatively discussed.
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- Raúl Montero
- SGIker Laser Facility, UPV/EHU , Sarriena, s/n, 48940 Leioa, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU) , Apartment 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU) , Apartment 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
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- Departamento de Química Física, Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU) , Apartment 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
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Stavros VG, Verlet JRR. Gas-Phase Femtosecond Particle Spectroscopy: A Bottom-Up Approach to Nucleotide Dynamics. Annu Rev Phys Chem 2016; 67:211-32. [PMID: 26980306 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-physchem-040215-112428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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We summarize how gas-phase ultrafast charged-particle spectroscopy has been used to provide an understanding of the photophysics of DNA building blocks. We focus on adenine and discuss how, following UV excitation, specific interactions determine the fates of its excited states. The dynamics can be probed using a systematic bottom-up approach that provides control over these interactions and that allows ever-larger complexes to be studied. Starting from a chromophore in adenine, the excited state decay mechanisms of adenine and chemically substituted or clustered adenine are considered and then extended to adenosine mono-, di-, and trinucleotides. We show that the gas-phase approach can offer exquisite insight into the dynamics observed in aqueous solution, but we also highlight stark differences. An outlook is provided that discusses some of the most promising developments in this bottom-up approach.
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- Vasilios G Stavros
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom;
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Durham, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom;
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Dean JC, Rather SR, Oblinsky DG, Cassette E, Jumper CC, Scholes GD. Broadband Transient Absorption and Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of Methylene Blue. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:9098-108. [PMID: 26274093 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b06126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Broadband transient absorption and two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES) studies of methylene blue in aqueous solution are reported. By isolating the coherent oscillations of the nonlinear signal amplitude and Fourier transforming with respect to the population time, we analyzed a significant number of coherences in the frequency domain and compared them with predictions of the vibronic spectrum from density function theory (DFT) calculations. We show here that such a comparison enables reliable assignments of vibrational coherences to particular vibrational modes, with their constituent combination bands and overtones also being identified via Franck–Condon analysis aided by DFT. Evaluation of the Fourier transform (FT) spectrum of transient absorption recorded to picosecond population times, in coincidence with 2D oscillation maps that disperse the FT spectrum into the additional excitation axis, is shown to be a complementary approach toward detailed coherence determination. Using the Franck–Condon overlap integrals determined from DFT calculations, we modeled 2D oscillation maps up to two vibrational quanta in the ground and excited state (six-level model), showing agreement with experiment. This semiquantitative analysis is used to interpret the geometry change upon photoexcitation as an expansion of the central sulfur/nitrogen containing ring due to the increased antibonding character in the excited state.
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Glowacki DR, Orr-Ewing AJ, Harvey JN. Non-equilibrium reaction and relaxation dynamics in a strongly interacting explicit solvent: F + CD3CN treated with a parallel multi-state EVB model. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:044120. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4926996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- David R. Glowacki
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
- Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UB, United Kingdom
- PULSE Institute and Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200F, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium
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Opalka D, Pham TA, Sprik M, Galli G. Electronic Energy Levels and Band Alignment for Aqueous Phenol and Phenolate from First Principles. J Phys Chem B 2015; 119:9651-60. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b04189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Daniel Opalka
- Max Planck Institute
for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstraße
1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94551, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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- The
Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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Horbury MD, Baker LA, Quan WD, Young JD, Staniforth M, Greenough SE, Stavros VG. Bridging the Gap between the Gas Phase and Solution Phase: Solvent Specific Photochemistry in 4-tert-Butylcatechol. J Phys Chem A 2015; 119:11989-96. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b03621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Michael D. Horbury
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill
Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill
Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill
Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill
Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill
Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill
Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill
Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, U.K
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Greenough SE, Roberts GM, Smith NA, Horbury MD, McKinlay RG, Żurek JM, Paterson MJ, Sadler PJ, Stavros VG. Ultrafast photo-induced ligand solvolysis of cis-[Ru(bipyridine)2(nicotinamide)2](2+): experimental and theoretical insight into its photoactivation mechanism. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 16:19141-55. [PMID: 25060066 DOI: 10.1039/c4cp02359e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Mechanistic insight into the photo-induced solvent substitution reaction of cis-[Ru(bipyridine)2(nicotinamide)2](2+) (1) is presented. Complex 1 is a photoactive species, designed to display high cytotoxicity following irradiation, for potential use in photodynamic therapy (photochemotherapy). In Ru(II) complexes of this type, efficient population of a dissociative triplet metal-centred ((3)MC) state is key to generating high quantum yields of a penta-coordinate intermediate (PCI) species, which in turn may form the target species: a mono-aqua photoproduct [Ru(bipyridine)2(nicotinamide)(H2O)](2+) (2). Following irradiation of 1, a thorough kinetic picture is derived from ultrafast UV/Vis transient absorption spectroscopy measurements, using a 'target analysis' approach, and provides both timescales and quantum yields for the key processes involved. We show that photoactivation of 1 to 2 occurs with a quantum yield ≥0.36, all within a timeframe of ~400 ps. Characterization of the excited states involved, particularly the nature of the PCI and how it undergoes a geometry relaxation to accommodate the water ligand, which is a keystone in the efficiency of the photoactivation of 1, is accomplished through state-of-the-art computation including complete active space self-consistent field methods and time-dependent density functional theory. Importantly, the conclusions here provide a detailed understanding of the initial stages involved in this photoactivation and the foundation required for designing more efficacious photochemotherapy drugs of this type.
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- Simon E Greenough
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Library Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
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Greenough SE, Horbury MD, Thompson JOF, Roberts GM, Karsili TNV, Marchetti B, Townsend D, Stavros VG. Solvent induced conformer specific photochemistry of guaiacol. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 16:16187-95. [PMID: 24967653 DOI: 10.1039/c4cp02424a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Using a combination of ultrafast solution- and gas-phase spectroscopies, together with high-level theory calculations, we demonstrate that we are able to track conformer-specific photodissociation dynamics in solution through solvent choice. We reveal this phenomenon in guaiacol (2-methoxyphenol), a key subunit of the natural biopolymer lignin. In cyclohexane, the first electronically excited (1)ππ* (S1) state in guaiacol relaxes with a time-constant of τ = 4.5 ± 0.2 ns, mediated through intersystem crossing to lower lying triplet (Tn) states and internal conversion and fluorescence back to the ground state (S0). In contrast, in methanol, a further relaxation channel is also present; the S1 state relaxes with a time-constant of τ = 2.9 ± 0.1 ns, which is now additionally mediated through coupling onto a dissociative (1)πσ* (S2) state and subsequent O-H bond fission, evidenced through the appearance of a spectral signature for the guaiacoxyl radical after ∼250 ps. With the aid of complementary calculations, we attribute this to the now absent intramolecular H-bond between OH and OMe moieties, which now favours intermolecular H-bonding to methanol, lowering the barrier to O-H dissociation and facilitating H-atom loss via tunnelling.
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- Simon E Greenough
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
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- Vasilios G Stavros
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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Baker LA, Horbury MD, Greenough SE, Coulter PM, Karsili TNV, Roberts GM, Orr-Ewing AJ, Ashfold MNR, Stavros VG. Probing the Ultrafast Energy Dissipation Mechanism of the Sunscreen Oxybenzone after UVA Irradiation. J Phys Chem Lett 2015; 6:1363-8. [PMID: 26263136 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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Oxybenzone is a common constituent of many commercially available sunscreens providing photoprotection from ultraviolet light incident on the skin. Femtosecond transient electronic and vibrational absorption spectroscopies have been used to investigate the nonradiative relaxation pathways of oxybenzone in cyclohexane and methanol after excitation in the UVA region. The present data suggest that the photoprotective properties of oxybenzone can be understood in terms of an initial ultrafast excited state enol → keto tautomerization, followed by efficient internal conversion and subsequent vibrational relaxation to the ground state (enol) tautomer.
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- Lewis A Baker
- †Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- †Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- †Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- ‡School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- ‡School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- ‡School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- ‡School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- ‡School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- †Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Andrew J. Orr-Ewing
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom;
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An H, Choi H, Lee YS, Baeck KK. Factors Affecting the Branching Ratio of Photodissociation: Thiophenol Studied through Quantum Wavepacket Dynamics. Chemphyschem 2015; 16:1529-34. [DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201500060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2015] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Godfrey TJ, Yu H, Biddle MS, Ullrich S. A wavelength dependent investigation of the indole photophysics via ionization and fragmentation pump–probe spectroscopies. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:25197-209. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp02975a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Using a variety of gas-phase pump–probe spectroscopic techniques, this work investigates indole excited-state relaxation dynamics at several pump wavelengths with a particular focus on 1πσ*-state involvement.
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- University of Georgia
- Athens
- USA
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Reva I, Nowak MJ, Lapinski L, Fausto R. Hydrogen atom transfer reactions in thiophenol: photogeneration of two new thione isomers. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:4888-98. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp04125a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The photochemistry of thiophenol monomers confined in cryogenic argon matrices is dominated by hydrogen atom transfer reactions and leads to the formation of two new thione isomers, which were characterized in this work by infrared spectroscopy and theoretical calculations.
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- Igor Reva
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Coimbra
- 3004-535 Coimbra
- Portugal
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- Institute of Physics
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- 02-668 Warsaw
- Poland
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- Institute of Physics
- Polish Academy of Sciences
- 02-668 Warsaw
- Poland
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Coimbra
- 3004-535 Coimbra
- Portugal
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Murdock D, Harris SJ, Clark IP, Greetham GM, Towrie M, Orr-Ewing AJ, Ashfold MNR. UV-induced isomerization dynamics of N-methyl-2-pyridone in solution. J Phys Chem A 2014; 119:88-94. [PMID: 25469643 DOI: 10.1021/jp511818k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The photoisomerization dynamics of N-methyl-2-pyridone (NMP) dissolved in CH3CN have been interrogated by time-resolved electronic and vibrational absorption spectroscopy. Irradiation at two different wavelengths (330 or 267 nm) prepares NMP(S1) molecules with very different levels of vibrational excitation, which rapidly relax to low vibrational levels of the S1 state. Internal conversion with an associated time constant of 110(4) ps, leading to reformation of NMP(S0) molecules, is identified as the dominant (>90%) decay pathway. Much of the remaining fraction undergoes a photoinitiated rearrangement to yield two ketenes (revealed by their characteristic antisymmetric C═C═O stretching modes at 2110 and 2120 cm(-1)), which are in equilibrium. The rate of ketene formation is found to be pump-wavelength dependent, consistent with ab initio electronic structure calculations which predict a barrier on the S1 potential energy surface en route to a prefulvenic conical intersection, by which isomerization is deduced to occur. Two kinetic models-differentiated by whether product branching occurs in the S1 or S0 electronic states-are presented and used with equal success in the analysis of the experimental data, highlighting the difficulties associated with deducing unambiguous mechanistic information from kinetic data alone.
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- Daniel Murdock
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol , Cantock's Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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Hessel V, Shahbazali E, Noël T, Zelentsov S. The Claisen Rearrangement - Part 2: Impact Factor Analysis of the Claisen Rearrangement, in Batch and in Flow. CHEMBIOENG REVIEWS 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/cben.201400022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Hessel V, Shahbazali E, Noël T, Zelentsov S. Claisen-Umlagerung im Rühr- und Durchflussbetrieb: Verständnis des Mechanismus und Steuerung der Einflussgrößen. CHEM-ING-TECH 2014. [DOI: 10.1002/cite.201400125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Xu X, Zheng J, Yang KR, Truhlar DG. Photodissociation Dynamics of Phenol: Multistate Trajectory Simulations including Tunneling. J Am Chem Soc 2014; 136:16378-86. [DOI: 10.1021/ja509016a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Xuefei Xu
- Department of Chemistry,
Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry,
Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry,
Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry,
Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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Staniforth M, Young JD, Cole DR, Karsili TNV, Ashfold MNR, Stavros VG. Ultrafast Excited-State Dynamics of 2,4-Dimethylpyrrole. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:10909-18. [DOI: 10.1021/jp508919s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Michael Staniforth
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Library Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, U.K
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Library Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, U.K
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Library Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, U.K
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, U.K
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Library Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, U.K
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Orr-Ewing AJ. Perspective: Bimolecular chemical reaction dynamics in liquids. J Chem Phys 2014; 140:090901. [PMID: 24606343 DOI: 10.1063/1.4866761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Bimolecular reactions in the gas phase exhibit rich and varied dynamical behaviour, but whether a profound knowledge of the mechanisms of isolated reactive collisions can usefully inform our understanding of reactions in liquid solutions remains an open question. The fluctuating environment in a liquid may significantly alter the motions of the reacting particles and the flow of energy into the reaction products after a transition state has been crossed. Recent experimental and computational studies of exothermic reactions of CN radicals with organic molecules indicate that many features of the gas-phase dynamics are retained in solution. However, observed differences may also provide information on the ways in which a solvent modifies fundamental chemical mechanisms. This perspective examines progress in the use of time-resolved infra-red spectroscopy to study reaction dynamics in liquids, discusses how existing theories can guide the interpretation of experimental data, and suggests future challenges for this field of research.
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- Andrew J Orr-Ewing
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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Harris SJ, Murdock D, Grubb MP, Clark IP, Greetham GM, Towrie M, Ashfold MNR. Tracking a Paternò–Büchi Reaction in Real Time Using Transient Electronic and Vibrational Spectroscopies. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:10240-5. [DOI: 10.1021/jp507958y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Stephanie J. Harris
- School
of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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- Central
Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, Science and Technology
Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- Central
Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, Science and Technology
Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- Central
Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, Science and Technology
Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock’s Close, Bristol, BS8 1TS, United Kingdom
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