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Wei YC, Hsu LY. Cavity-Free Quantum-Electrodynamic Electron Transfer Reactions. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:9695-9702. [PMID: 36219782 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Richard Feynman stated that "The theory behind chemistry is quantum electrodynamics". However, harnessing quantum-electrodynamic (QED) effects to modify chemical reactions is a grand challenge and currently has only been reported in experiments using cavities due to the limitation of strong light-matter coupling. In this article, we demonstrate that QED effects can significantly enhance the rate of electron transfer (ET) by several orders of magnitude in the absence of cavities, which is implicitly supported by experimental reports. To understand how cavity-free QED effects are involved in ET reactions, we incorporate the effect of infinite one-photon states into Marcus theory, derive an explicit expression for the rate of radiative ET, and develop the concept of "electron transfer overlap". Moreover, QED effects may lead to a barrier-free ET reaction whose rate is dependent on the energy-gap power law. This study thus provides new insights into fundamental chemical principles, with promising prospects for QED-based chemical reactions.
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- Yu-Chen Wei
- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei10617, Taiwan
- Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei10617, Taiwan
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- Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei10617, Taiwan
- Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei10617, Taiwan
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Ali B, Xu H, Chetty D, Sang RT, Litvinyuk IV, Rybachuk M. Laser-Induced Graphitization of Diamond Under 30 fs Laser Pulse Irradiation. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:2679-2685. [PMID: 35302380 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c00429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The degree of laser-induced graphitization from a sp3-bonded to a sp2-bonded carbon fraction in a single crystal chemical vapor deposited (CVD) diamond under varying fluence of an ultrashort pulsed laser (30 fs, 800 nm, 1 kHz) irradiation has been studied. The tetrahedral CVD sp3 phase is found to transition to primarily an sp2 aromatic crystalline graphitic fraction below the critical fluence of 3.9 J/cm2, above which predominantly an amorphous carbon is formed. A fractional increase of fluence from 3.3 to 3.9 J/cm2 (∼20%) results in a substantially (∼3-fold) increased depth of the sp2 graphitized areas owing to the nonlinear interactions associated with a fs laser irradiation. Additionally, formation of a C═O carbonyl group is observed below the critical threshold fluence; the C═O cleavage occurrs gradually with the increase of irradiation fluence of 30 fs laser light. The implications for these findings on enhancement of fs driven processing of diamonds are discussed.
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- Bakhtiar Ali
- School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
- Centre for Quantum Dynamics and Australian Attosecond Science Facility, Griffith University, Science Road, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
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- Centre for Quantum Dynamics and Australian Attosecond Science Facility, Griffith University, Science Road, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
- School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Nathan QLD 4111, Australia
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- Centre for Quantum Dynamics and Australian Attosecond Science Facility, Griffith University, Science Road, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
- School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Nathan QLD 4111, Australia
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- Centre for Quantum Dynamics and Australian Attosecond Science Facility, Griffith University, Science Road, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
- School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Nathan QLD 4111, Australia
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- Centre for Quantum Dynamics and Australian Attosecond Science Facility, Griffith University, Science Road, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
- School of Environment and Science, Griffith University, Nathan QLD 4111, Australia
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- School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
- Centre for Quantum Dynamics and Australian Attosecond Science Facility, Griffith University, Science Road, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia
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Goun A, Frederick E, Er AO, Bernasek SL, Rabitz H. Deprotonation of Phenol linked to a silicon dioxide surface using Adaptive Feedback Laser Control with a Heterodyne Detected Sum Frequency Generation Signal. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:19443-19451. [DOI: 10.1039/d1cp05613a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The development of laser-controlled surface reactions has been limited by the lack of decisive methods for detecting evolving changes in the surface chemistry. In this work, we demonstrate successful laser...
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Hu JW, Han YC. Investigation of photoassociation with full-dimensional thermal-random-phase wavefunctions. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:064108. [PMID: 34391372 DOI: 10.1063/5.0059543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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By taking the femtosecond two-photon photoassociation (PA) of magnesium atoms as an example, we propose a method to calculate the thermally averaged population, which is transferred from the ground X1Σg + state to the target (1)1Πg state, based on the solution of full-dimensional time-dependent Schrödinger equation. In this method, named as method A, we use thermal-random-phase wavefunctions with the random phases expanded in both the vibrational and rotational degrees of freedom to model the thermal ensemble of the initial eigenstates. This method is compared with the other two methods (B and C) at different temperatures. Method B is also based on thermal-random-phase wavefunctions, except that the random-phase expansion is merely used for the vibrational degree of freedom. Method C is based on the independent propagation of every initial eigenstate, instead of the thermal-random-phase wavefunctions. Taking the (1)1Πg state as the target state, it is found that although these three methods can present the same population on the (1)1Πg state, the computation efficiency of method A increases dramatically with the increase in temperature. With this efficient method A, we find that the PA process at 1000 K can also induce rotational coherence, i.e., the molecular field-free alignment in the excited electronic states.
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- Jin-Wei Hu
- Department of Physics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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- Department of Physics, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
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Hishikawa A, Matsuda A, Fushitani M. Ultrafast Reaction Imaging and Control by Ultrashort Intense Laser Pulses. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 2020. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20200158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Akiyoshi Hishikawa
- Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan
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Chang BY, Shin S, González-Vázquez J, Martín F, Malinovsky VS, Sola IR. Control defeasance by anti-alignment in the excited state. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:23620-23625. [PMID: 31624812 DOI: 10.1039/c9cp04427b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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We predict anti-alignment dynamics in the excited state of H2+ or related homonuclear dimers in the presence of a strong field. This effect is a general indirect outcome of the strong transition dipole and large polarizabilities typically used to control or to induce alignment in the ground state. In the excited state, however, the polarizabilities have the opposite sign compared to those in the ground state, generating a torque that aligns the molecule perpendicular to the field, deeming any laser-control strategy impossible.
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- Bo Y Chang
- School of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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Ma F. Dynamics and Coherent Control of Exciton–Exciton Annihilation in Aqueous J-Aggregate. J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:10746-10753. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b09891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Fei Ma
- Division of Chemical Physics, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
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Gruzdev V, Korkin D, Mooney BP, Havelund JF, Møller IM, Thelen JJ. Controlled modification of biomolecules by ultrashort laser pulses in polar liquids. Sci Rep 2017; 7:5550. [PMID: 28717198 PMCID: PMC5514113 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-05761-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2016] [Accepted: 05/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Targeted chemical modification of peptides and proteins by laser pulses in a biologically relevant environment, i.e. aqueous solvent at room temperature, allows for accurate control of biological processes. However, the traditional laser methods of control of chemical reactions are applicable only to a small class of photosensitive biomolecules because of strong and ultrafast perturbations from biomolecule-solvent interactions. Here, we report excitation of harmonics of vibration modes of solvent molecules by femtosecond laser pulses to produce controlled chemical modifications of non-photosensitive peptides and proteins in polar liquids under room conditions. The principal modifications included lysine formylation and methionine sulfoxidation both of which occur with nearly 100% yield under atmospheric conditions. That modification occurred only if the laser irradiance exceeded certain threshold level. The threshold, type, and extent of the modifications were completely controlled by solvent composition, laser wavelength, and peak irradiance of ultrashort laser pulses. This approach is expected to assist in establishing rigorous control over a broad class of biological processes in cells and tissues at the molecular level.
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- Vitaly Gruzdev
- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.
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- Department of Computer Science, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, 01609, USA
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- Charles W Gehrke Proteomics Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.,Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.,Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark.,Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5200, Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Forsøgsvej 1, DK-4200, Slagelse, Denmark
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA. .,Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.
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Dorfman KE, Zhang Y, Mukamel S. Coherent control of long-range photoinduced electron transfer by stimulated X-ray Raman processes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:10001-6. [PMID: 27559082 PMCID: PMC5018741 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1610729113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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We show that X-ray pulses resonant with selected core transitions can manipulate electron transfer (ET) in molecules with ultrafast and atomic selectivity. We present possible protocols for coherently controlling ET dynamics in donor-bridge-acceptor (DBA) systems by stimulated X-ray resonant Raman processes involving various transitions between the D, B, and A sites. Simulations presented for a Ru(II)-Co(III) model complex demonstrate how the shapes, phases and amplitudes of the X-ray pulses can be optimized to create charge on demand at selected atoms, by opening up otherwise blocked ET pathways.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
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Butorac J, Wilson EL, Fielding HH, Brown WA, Minns RS. A RAIRS, TPD and femtosecond laser-induced desorption study of CO, NO and coadsorbed CO + NO on Pd(111). RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra13722a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Here we describe novel RAIRS, TPD and LID studies of CO, NO and coadsorbed CO and NO on Pd.
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- Department of Chemistry
- University College London
- London
- UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- University College London
- London
- UK
- Division of Chemistry
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- Department of Chemistry
- University College London
- London
- UK
- Chemistry
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Controlling chemical reactions by light, i.e., the selective making and breaking of chemical bonds in a desired way with strong-field lasers, is a long-held dream in science. An essential step toward achieving this goal is to understand the interactions of atomic and molecular systems with intense laser light. The main focus of experiments that were performed thus far was on quantum-state population changes. Phase-shaped laser pulses were used to control the population of final states, also, by making use of quantum interference of different pathways. However, the quantum-mechanical phase of these final states, governing the system's response and thus the subsequent temporal evolution and dynamics of the system, was not systematically analyzed. Here, we demonstrate a generalized phase-control concept for complex systems in the liquid phase. In this scheme, the intensity of a control laser pulse acts as a control knob to manipulate the quantum-mechanical phase evolution of excited states. This control manifests itself in the phase of the molecule's dipole response accessible via its absorption spectrum. As reported here, the shape of a broad molecular absorption band is significantly modified for laser pulse intensities ranging from the weak perturbative to the strong-field regime. This generalized phase-control concept provides a powerful tool to interpret and understand the strong-field dynamics and control of large molecules in external pulsed laser fields.
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Curchod BFE, Penfold TJ, Rothlisberger U, Tavernelli I. Local Control Theory in Trajectory Surface Hopping Dynamics Applied to the Excited-State Proton Transfer of 4-Hydroxyacridine. Chemphyschem 2015; 16:2127-33. [PMID: 26036986 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201500190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The application of local control theory combined with nonadiabatic ab initio molecular dynamics to study the photoinduced intramolecular proton transfer reaction in 4-hydroxyacridine was investigated. All calculations were performed within the framework of linear-response time-dependent density functional theory. The computed pulses revealed important information about the underlying excited-state nuclear dynamics highlighting the involvement of collective vibrational modes that would normally be neglected in a study performed on model systems constrained to a subset of the full configuration space. This study emphasizes the strengths of local control theory for the design of pulses that can trigger chemical reactions associated with the population of a given molecular excited state. In addition, analysis of the generated pulses can help to shed new light on the photophysics and photochemistry of complex molecular systems.
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- Basile F E Curchod
- Laboratory of Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne (Switzerland).,Current address: Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 (USA)
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- Laboratory of Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)
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- Laboratory of Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne (Switzerland). .,Current address: IBM Research GmbH, Zurich Research Laboratory, 8803 Rüschlikon (Switzerland).
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Solá IR, González-Vázquez J, de Nalda R, Bañares L. Strong field laser control of photochemistry. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:13183-200. [PMID: 25835746 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp00627a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Strong ultrashort laser pulses have opened new avenues for the manipulation of photochemical processes like photoisomerization or photodissociation. The presence of light intense enough to reshape the potential energy surfaces may steer the dynamics of both electrons and nuclei in new directions. A controlled laser pulse, precisely defined in terms of spectrum, time and intensity, is the essential tool in this type of approach to control chemical dynamics at a microscopic level. In this Perspective we examine the current strategies developed to achieve control of chemical processes with strong laser fields, as well as recent experimental advances that demonstrate that properties like the molecular absorption spectrum, the state lifetimes, the quantum yields and the velocity distributions in photodissociation processes can be controlled by the introduction of carefully designed strong laser fields.
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- Ignacio R Solá
- Departamento de Química Física I (Unidad Asociada de I+D+i al CSIC), Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
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Sá J, Szlachetko J. Heterogeneous Catalysis Experiments at XFELs. Are we Close to Producing a Catalysis Movie? Catal Letters 2013. [DOI: 10.1007/s10562-013-1171-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Bond-Selective Dissociation of Polyatomic Cations in Mid-Infrared Strong Fields. J Phys Chem A 2013; 117:11202-9. [DOI: 10.1021/jp4038649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Amaran S, Kosloff R, Tomza M, Skomorowski W, Pawłowski F, Moszynski R, Rybak L, Levin L, Amitay Z, Berglund JM, Reich DM, Koch CP. Femtosecond two-photon photoassociation of hot magnesium atoms: A quantum dynamical study using thermal random phase wavefunctions. J Chem Phys 2013; 139:164124. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4826350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Ruetzel S, Kullmann M, Buback J, Nuernberger P, Brixner T. Tracing the steps of photoinduced chemical reactions in organic molecules by coherent two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy using triggered exchange. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2013; 110:148305. [PMID: 25167047 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.148305] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2012] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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We establish coherent triggered-exchange two-dimensional (TE2D) electronic spectroscopy as an expansion of pump-repump-probe transient absorption spectroscopy and uniquely elucidate the role of higher-lying electronic states in ultrafast photochemistry. As an example, this is demonstrated for a molecular switch present in two ring-open conformations. The formation of a new species-the radical cation-is observed and its precursor state is identified via TE2D.
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- Stefan Ruetzel
- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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Yamazaki K, Niitsu N, Nakamura K, Kanno M, Kono H. Electronic Excited State Paths of Stone–Wales Rearrangement in Pyrene: Roles of Conical Intersections. J Phys Chem A 2012; 116:11441-50. [DOI: 10.1021/jp306894x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Kaoru Yamazaki
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai
980-8578, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai
980-8578, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai
980-8578, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai
980-8578, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai
980-8578, Japan
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Matsumoto Y. Toward photochemistry of integrated heterogeneous systems. J Chem Phys 2012; 137:091705. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4746802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Petersen J, Wohlgemuth M, Sellner B, Bonačić-Koutecký V, Lischka H, Mitrić R. Laser pulse trains for controlling excited state dynamics of adenine in water. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:4687-94. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cp24002e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Vaida ME, Bernhardt TM. Surface-aligned femtochemistry: Photoinduced reaction dynamics of CH3I and CH3Br on MgO(100). Faraday Discuss 2012; 157:437-49; discussion 475-500. [DOI: 10.1039/c2fd20104f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Nuernberger P, Wolpert D, Weiss H, Gerber G. Initiation and control of catalytic surface reactions with shaped femtosecond laser pulses. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:1185-99. [DOI: 10.1039/c1cp21827a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Petersen J, Mitrić R. Electronic coherence within the semiclassical field-induced surface hopping method: strong field quantum control in K2. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:8299-306. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cp40747g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Rybak L, Amaran S, Levin L, Tomza M, Moszynski R, Kosloff R, Koch CP, Amitay Z. Generating molecular rovibrational coherence by two-photon femtosecond photoassociation of thermally hot atoms. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2011; 107:273001. [PMID: 22243308 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.107.273001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2011] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The formation of diatomic molecules with rotational and vibrational coherence is demonstrated experimentally in free-to-bound two-photon femtosecond photoassociation of hot atoms. In a thermal gas at a temperature of 1000 K, pairs of magnesium atoms, colliding in their electronic ground state, are excited into coherent superpositions of bound rovibrational levels in an electronically excited state. The rovibrational coherence is probed by a time-delayed third photon, resulting in quantum beats in the UV fluorescence. A comprehensive theoretical model based on ab initio calculations rationalizes the generation of coherence by Franck-Condon filtering of collision energies and partial waves, quantifying it in terms of an increase in quantum purity of the thermal ensemble. Our results open the way to coherent control of a binary reaction.
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- Leonid Rybak
- The Shirlee Jacobs Femtosecond Laser Research Laboratory, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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du Plessis A, Strydom CA, Uys H, Botha LR. Laser induced and controlled chemical reaction of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. J Chem Phys 2011; 135:204303. [PMID: 22128931 DOI: 10.1063/1.3662129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Bimolecular chemical reaction control of gaseous CO and H(2) at room temperature and atmospheric pressure, without any catalyst, using shaped femtosecond laser pulses is presented. High intensity laser radiation applied to a reaction cell facilitates non-resonant bond breakage and the formation of a range of ions, which can then react to form new products. Stable reaction products are measured after irradiation of a reaction cell, using time of flight mass spectroscopy. Bond formation of C-O, C-C, and C-H bonds is demonstrated as CO(2)(+), C(2)H(2)(+), CH(+), and CH(3)(+) were observed in the time of flight mass spectrum of the product gas, analyzed after irradiation. The formation of CO(2) is shown to be dependent on laser intensity, irradiation time, and on the presence of H(2) in the reaction cell. Using negatively chirped laser pulses more C-O bond formation takes place as compared to more C-C bond formation for unchirped pulses.
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Hartke B. Global optimization. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2011. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.70] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Wollenhaupt M, Baumert T. Ultrafast laser control of electron dynamics in atoms, molecules and solids. Faraday Discuss 2011; 153:9-26; discussion 73-91. [DOI: 10.1039/c1fd00109d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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