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Ki H, Gu J, Cha Y, Lee KW, Ihee H. Projection to extract the perpendicular component (PEPC) method for extracting kinetics from time-resolved data. STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS (MELVILLE, N.Y.) 2023; 10:034103. [PMID: 37388296 PMCID: PMC10306411 DOI: 10.1063/4.0000189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
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Time-resolved x-ray liquidography (TRXL) is a potent method for investigating the structural dynamics of chemical and biological reactions in the liquid phase. It has enabled the extraction of detailed structural aspects of various dynamic processes, the molecular structures of intermediates, and kinetics of reactions across a wide range of systems, from small molecules to proteins and nanoparticles. Proper data analysis is key to extracting the information of the kinetics and structural dynamics of the studied system encrypted in the TRXL data. In typical TRXL data, the signals from solute scattering, solvent scattering, and solute-solvent cross scattering are mixed in the q-space, and the solute kinetics and solvent hydrodynamics are mixed in the time domain, thus complicating the data analysis. Various methods developed so far generally require prior knowledge of the molecular structures of candidate species involved in the reaction. Because such information is often unavailable, a typical data analysis often involves tedious trial and error. To remedy this situation, we have developed a method named projection to extract the perpendicular component (PEPC), capable of removing the contribution of solvent kinetics from TRXL data. The resulting data then contain only the solute kinetics, and, thus, the solute kinetics can be easily determined. Once the solute kinetics is determined, the subsequent data analysis to extract the structural information can be performed with drastically improved convenience. The application of the PEPC method is demonstrated with TRXL data from the photochemistry of two molecular systems: [Au(CN)2-]3 in water and CHI3 in cyclohexane.
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Kinigstein ED, Otolski C, Jennings G, Doumy G, Walko DA, Zuo X, Guo J, March AM, Zhang X. Asynchronous x-ray multiprobe data acquisition for x-ray transient absorption spectroscopy. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2023; 94:014714. [PMID: 36725554 DOI: 10.1063/5.0100596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 01/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Laser pump X-ray Transient Absorption (XTA) spectroscopy offers unique insights into photochemical and photophysical phenomena. X-ray Multiprobe data acquisition (XMP DAQ) is a technique that acquires XTA spectra at thousands of pump-probe time delays in a single measurement, producing highly self-consistent XTA spectral dynamics. In this work, we report two new XTA data acquisition techniques that leverage the high performance of XMP DAQ in combination with High Repetition Rate (HRR) laser excitation: HRR-XMP and Asynchronous X-ray Multiprobe (AXMP). HRR-XMP uses a laser repetition rate up to 200 times higher than previous implementations of XMP DAQ and proportionally increases the data collection efficiency at each time delay. This allows HRR-XMP to acquire more high-quality XTA data in less time. AXMP uses a frequency mismatch between the laser and x-ray pulses to acquire XTA data at a flexibly defined set of pump-probe time delays with a spacing down to a few picoseconds. AXMP introduces a novel pump-probe synchronization concept that acquires data in clusters of time delays. The temporally inhomogeneous distribution of acquired data improves the attainable signal statistics at early times, making the AXMP synchronization concept useful for measuring sub-nanosecond dynamics with photon-starved techniques like XTA. In this paper, we demonstrate HRR-XMP and AXMP by measuring the laser-induced spectral dynamics of dilute aqueous solutions of Fe(CN)6 4- and [FeII(bpy)3]2+ (bpy: 2,2'-bipyridine), respectively.
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- Eli Diego Kinigstein
- X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94702, USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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Liu X, Zhang X, Khakhulin D, Su P, Wulff M, Baudelet F, Weng TC, Kong Q, Sun Y. Deciphering Photochemical Reaction Pathways of Aqueous Tetrachloroauric Acid by X-ray Transient Absorption Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:8921-8927. [PMID: 36130195 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Photolysis reaction pathways of [Au(III)Cl4]- in aqueous solution have been investigated by time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Ultraviolet excitation directly breaks the Au-Cl bond in [Au(III)Cl4]- to form [Au(II)Cl3]- that becomes highly reactive within 79 ps. Disproportionation of [Au(II)Cl3]- generates [Au(I)Cl2]-, which is stable for ≤10 μs. In contrast, intense near-infrared lasers photolyze water to generate hydrated electrons, which then reduce [Au(III)Cl4]- to [Au(II)Cl3]- at 5 ns. Hydrated electrons further induce a chain reaction from [Au(II)Cl3]- to [Au(0)Cl]- by successively removing one Cl-. The zero-valency Au anions quickly polymerize and condense to form Au nanoparticles, which become the dominating product after 400 s. Our results reveal that the condensation of zero-valency Au starts with dimerization of gold clusters coordinated with chloride ions rather than direct condensation of pristine Au atoms.
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- Xuan Liu
- Synchrotron Soleil, L'Orme des Merisiers, 91190 Saint-Aubin, France
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60349, United States
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- Synchrotron Soleil, L'Orme des Merisiers, 91190 Saint-Aubin, France
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, BP 220, F-38043 Grenoble Cedex, France
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- Synchrotron Soleil, L'Orme des Merisiers, 91190 Saint-Aubin, France
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- Department of Chemistry, Temple University, 1901 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, United States
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Gu J, Lee S, Eom S, Ki H, Choi EH, Lee Y, Nozawa S, Adachi SI, Kim J, Ihee H. Structural Dynamics of C 2F 4I 2 in Cyclohexane Studied via Time-Resolved X-ray Liquidography. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:9793. [PMID: 34575954 PMCID: PMC8469616 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22189793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Revised: 09/06/2021] [Accepted: 09/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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The halogen elimination of 1,2-diiodoethane (C2H4I2) and 1,2-diiodotetrafluoroethane (C2F4I2) serves as a model reaction for investigating the influence of fluorination on reaction dynamics and solute-solvent interactions in solution-phase reactions. While the kinetics and reaction pathways of the halogen elimination reaction of C2H4I2 were reported to vary substantially depending on the solvent, the solvent effects on the photodissociation of C2F4I2 remain to be explored, as its reaction dynamics have only been studied in methanol. Here, to investigate the solvent dependence, we conducted a time-resolved X-ray liquidography (TRXL) experiment on C2F4I2 in cyclohexane. The data revealed that (ⅰ) the solvent dependence of the photoreaction of C2F4I2 is not as strong as that observed for C2H4I2, and (ⅱ) the nongeminate recombination leading to the formation of I2 is slower in cyclohexane than in methanol. We also show that the molecular structures of the relevant species determined from the structural analysis of TRXL data provide an excellent benchmark for DFT calculations, especially for investigating the relevance of exchange-correlation functionals used for the structural optimization of haloalkanes. This study demonstrates that TRXL is a powerful technique to study solvent dependence in the solution phase.
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- Jain Gu
- Department of Chemistry and KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Korea; (J.G.); (S.L.); (S.E.); (H.K.); (E.H.C.); (Y.L.)
- Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34141, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Korea; (J.G.); (S.L.); (S.E.); (H.K.); (E.H.C.); (Y.L.)
- Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34141, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Korea; (J.G.); (S.L.); (S.E.); (H.K.); (E.H.C.); (Y.L.)
- Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34141, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Korea; (J.G.); (S.L.); (S.E.); (H.K.); (E.H.C.); (Y.L.)
- Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34141, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Korea; (J.G.); (S.L.); (S.E.); (H.K.); (E.H.C.); (Y.L.)
- Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34141, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Korea; (J.G.); (S.L.); (S.E.); (H.K.); (E.H.C.); (Y.L.)
- Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34141, Korea
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- Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba 305-0801, Ibaraki, Japan; (S.N.); (S.-i.A.)
- Department of Materials Structure Science, School of High Energy Accelerator Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba 305-0801, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba 305-0801, Ibaraki, Japan; (S.N.); (S.-i.A.)
- Department of Materials Structure Science, School of High Energy Accelerator Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba 305-0801, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Inha University, 100 Inha-ro, Michuhol-gu, Incheon 22212, Korea;
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- Department of Chemistry and KI for the BioCentury, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Korea; (J.G.); (S.L.); (S.E.); (H.K.); (E.H.C.); (Y.L.)
- Center for Nanomaterials and Chemical Reactions, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon 34141, Korea
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Ihee H. Preface to the special issue: Selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Ultrafast Structural Dynamics. STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS (MELVILLE, N.Y.) 2020; 7:060402. [PMID: 33415181 PMCID: PMC7775113 DOI: 10.1063/4.0000064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Tiede DM, Kwon G, He X, Mulfort KL, Martinson ABF. Characterizing electronic and atomic structures for amorphous and molecular metal oxide catalysts at functional interfaces by combining soft X-ray spectroscopy and high-energy X-ray scattering. NANOSCALE 2020; 12:13276-13296. [PMID: 32567636 DOI: 10.1039/d0nr02350g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Amorphous thin film materials and heterogenized molecular catalysts supported on electrode and other functional interfaces are widely investigated as promising catalyst formats for applications in solar and electrochemical fuels catalysis. However the amorphous character of these catalysts and the complexity of the interfacial architectures that merge charge transport properties of electrode and semiconductor supports with discrete sites for multi-step catalysis poses challenges for probing mechanisms that activate and tune sites for catalysis. This minireview discusses advances in soft X-ray spectroscopy and high-energy X-ray scattering that provide opportunities to resolve interfacial electronic and atomic structures, respectively, that are linked to catalysis. This review discusses how these techniques can be partnered with advances in nanostructured interface synthesis for combined soft X-ray spectroscopy and high-energy X-ray scattering analyses of thin film and heterogenized molecular catalysts. These combined approaches enable opportunities for the characterization of both electronic and atomic structures underlying fundamental catalytic function, and that can be applied under conditions relevant to device applications.
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- David M Tiede
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, USA.
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