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Wangchingchai P, Yamasaki K, Kohguchi H. Imaging studies of the CH3 fragments formed in the ultraviolet photodissociation of dimethylamine: Role of the parent 3s and 3p Rydberg states. Chem Phys Lett 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2022.139671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Suits AG. Invited Review Article: Photofragment imaging. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2018; 89:111101. [PMID: 30501356 DOI: 10.1063/1.5045325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2018] [Accepted: 10/25/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Photodissociation studies in molecular beams that employ position-sensitive particle detection to map product recoil velocities emerged thirty years ago and continue to evolve with new laser and detector technologies. These powerful methods allow application of tunable laser detection of single product quantum states, simultaneous measurement of velocity and angular momentum polarization, measurement of joint product state distributions for the detected and undetected products, coincident detection of multiple product channels, and application to radicals and ions as well as closed-shell molecules. These studies have permitted deep investigation of photochemical dynamics for a broad range of systems, revealed new reaction mechanisms, and addressed problems of practical importance in atmospheric, combustion, and interstellar chemistry. This review presents an historical overview, a detailed technical account of the range of methods employed, and selected experimental highlights illustrating the capabilities of the method.
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- Arthur G Suits
- Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
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Smith AD, Watts HM, Jager E, Horke DA, Springate E, Alexander O, Cacho C, Chapman RT, Minns RS. Resonant multiphoton ionisation probe of the photodissociation dynamics of ammonia. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:28150-28156. [PMID: 27722319 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp05279g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The dissociation dynamics of the Ã-state of ammonia have been studied using a resonant multiphoton ionisation probe in a photoelectron spectroscopy experiment. The use of a resonant intermediate in the multiphoton ionisation process changes the ionisation propensity, allowing access to different ion states when compared with equivalent single photon ionisation experiments. Ionisation through the E' 1A1' Rydberg intermediate means we maintain overlap with the ion state for an extended period, allowing us to monitor the excited state population for several hundred femtoseconds. The vibrational states in the photoelectron spectrum show two distinct timescales, 200 fs and 320 fs, that we assign to the non-adiabatic and adiabatic dissociation processes respectively. The different timescales derive from differences in the wavepacket trajectories for the two dissociation pathways that resonantly excite different vibrational states in the intermediate Rydberg state. The timescales are similar to those obtained from time resolved ion kinetic energy release measurements, suggesting we can measure the different trajectories taken out to the region of conical intersection.
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- Adam D Smith
- Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
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- Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
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- Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK
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- Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK
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- Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK
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- Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, UK
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- Chemistry, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
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Yu H, Evans NL, Chatterley AS, Roberts GM, Stavros VG, Ullrich S. Tunneling Dynamics of the NH3 (Ã) State Observed by Time-Resolved Photoelectron and H Atom Kinetic Energy Spectroscopies. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:9438-44. [DOI: 10.1021/jp507201a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Hui Yu
- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Library Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Library Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Library Road, Coventry, CV4 7AL, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States
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Lin GSM, Zhou L, Xie D. Theoretical Study of the State-to-State Photodissociation Dynamics of the Vibrationally Excited Water Molecule in the B Band. J Phys Chem A 2014; 118:9220-7. [DOI: 10.1021/jp503062s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Guang-Shuang-Mu Lin
- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, China
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- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, China
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- Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Mesoscopic Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, China
- Synergetic
Innovation Center of Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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Yoon JH, Woo KC, Kim SK. Vibronic structures and dynamics of the predissociating dimethyl sulfide and its isotopomers (CH₃SCH₃, CD₃SCD₃, CH₃SCD₃) at the conical intersection. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:8949-55. [PMID: 24691271 DOI: 10.1039/c3cp55220a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Conical intersection seam comprised of crossing surfaces of two lowest excited states of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) has been directly accessed by the one-photon excitation from the ground equilibrium state. Since the S-C bond rupture takes place promptly, the molecular structure on the excited state effectively belongs to C(S) symmetry. Namely, excited states of 1(1)B1 and 1(1)A2 in C(2)V become 1(1)A'' and 2(1)A'' states in C(S), respectively, and the optical transition from the ground equilibrium state to the dissociating molecule at the conical intersection seam is symmetry-allowed to facilitate the nonadiabatic transition on the 2(1)A'' state, leading eventually to the CH3S + CH3 products. The dynamic study of DMS, in this sense, gives the great opportunity to unravel the vibronic structure of the conical intersection seam by the conventional one-photon excitation method. In this work, utilizing the photofragment excitation (PHOFEX) spectroscopic method, the vibronic structures of DMS and its isotope analogs (CD3SCD3, CH3SCD3) at the conical intersection seam have been revealed, providing accurate lifetimes and detailed dynamics associated with individual vibronic transitions. The lifetime of the excited DMS is estimated to be ~100 fs, indicating that the dissociation is complete within one single oscillation in the conical intersection region. It is also found that the symmetric CSC stretching mode is strongly coupled to the reaction coordinate, as manifested by our experimental finding that the fragmentation yield of the S-CD3 bond is enhanced compared to that of the S-CH3 bond in the CH3SCD3 dissociation reaction only when the CSC symmetric stretching vibrational mode is excited at the conical intersection region. This work demonstrates that the better understanding of the excited state could make the bond-selective chemistry into reality.
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- Jun-Ho Yoon
- Department of Chemistry, KAIST, Daejeon 302-751, Republic of Korea.
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Vaida V, Donaldson DJ. Red-light initiated atmospheric reactions of vibrationally excited molecules. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:827-36. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp53543f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Chatterley AS, Roberts GM, Stavros VG. Timescales for adiabatic photodissociation dynamics from the à state of ammonia. J Chem Phys 2013; 139:034318. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4811672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Roberts GM, Hadden DJ, Bergendahl LT, Wenge AM, Harris SJ, Karsili TNV, Ashfold MNR, Paterson MJ, Stavros VG. Exploring quantum phenomena and vibrational control in σ* mediated photochemistry. Chem Sci 2013. [DOI: 10.1039/c2sc21865h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Portnov A, Epshtein M, Rosenwaks S, Bar I. Vibrational dynamics of pyrrole via frequency-domain spectroscopy. J Chem Phys 2012; 136:024313. [PMID: 22260585 DOI: 10.1063/1.3673614] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The N-H stretch overtones of pyrrole, a key constituent of biologic building blocks, were studied by room temperature photoacoustic and jet-cooled action spectroscopies to unravel their intramolecular dynamics. Contrary to "isolated" states excited with two and three N-H stretch quanta, the one with four quanta shows strong accidental resonances with two other states involving three quanta of N-H stretch and one quantum of C-H stretch. The inhomogeneously reduced features in the action spectra provide the means for getting insight into the intramolecular interactions and the factors controlling energy flow within pyrrole. The time dependence of the survival probability of the 4ν(1) N-H stretch, deduced from the vibrational Hamiltonian, shows an initial decay in ~0.3 ps with ensuing quantum beats from the N-H-C-H resonance and their decay with a time constant of about 5 ps as a result of weaker coupling to bath states.
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Evans NL, Yu H, Roberts GM, Stavros VG, Ullrich S. Observation of ultrafast NH3 (Ã) state relaxation dynamics using a combination of time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy and photoproduct detection. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:10401-9. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cp40178a] [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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Montero R, Conde ÁP, Ovejas V, Martínez R, Castaño F, Longarte A. Ultrafast dynamics of aniline in the 294-234 nm excitation range: The role of the πσ* state. J Chem Phys 2011; 135:054308. [DOI: 10.1063/1.3615544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Ashfold MNR, King GA, Murdock D, Nix MGD, Oliver TAA, Sage AG. πσ* excited states in molecular photochemistry. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2010; 12:1218-38. [DOI: 10.1039/b921706a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 274] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Chichinin AI, Gericke KH, Kauczok S, Maul C. Imaging chemical reactions – 3D velocity mapping. INT REV PHYS CHEM 2009. [DOI: 10.1080/01442350903235045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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