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Dodia M, Rouxel JR, Cho D, Zhang Y, Keefer D, Bonn M, Nagata Y, Mukamel S. Water Solvent Reorganization upon Ultrafast Resonant Stimulated X-ray Raman Excitation of a Metalloporphyrin Dimer. J Chem Theory Comput 2024; 20:4254-4264. [PMID: 38727197 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.4c00040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2024]
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We propose an X-ray Raman pump-X-ray diffraction probe scheme to follow solvation dynamics upon charge migration in a solute molecule. The X-ray Raman pump selectively prepares a valence electronic wavepacket in the solute, while the probe provides information about the entire molecular ensemble. A combination of molecular dynamics and ab initio quantum chemistry simulations is applied to a Zn-Ni porphyrin dimer in water. Using time-resolved X-ray diffraction and pair distribution functions, we extracted solvation shell dynamics.
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- Mayank Dodia
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, Mainz 55128, Germany
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Green-Nano Materials Research Center, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea
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- Ames National Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, Mainz 55128, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, Mainz 55128, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, Mainz 55128, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States
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Long CL, Zhang X, Lockard JV. Pushing the heterometal doping limit while preserving long-lived charge separation in a Ti-based MOF photocatalyst. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:194704. [PMID: 37971032 DOI: 10.1063/5.0174664] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023] Open
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This study explores the nature, dynamics, and reactivity of the photo-induced charge separated excited state in a Fe3+-doped titanium-based metal organic framework (MOF), xFeMIL125-NH2, as a function of iron concentration. The MOF is synthesized with doping levels x = 0.5, 1 and 2 Fe node sites per octameric Ti-oxo cluster and characterized by powder x-ray diffraction, UV-vis diffuse reflectance, atomic absorption, and steady state Fe K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy. For each doping level, time-resolved X-ray transient absorption spectroscopy studies confirm the electron trap site role of the Fe sites in the excited state. Time scan data reveal multiexponential decay kinetics for the charge recombination processes which extend into the microsecond range for all three concentrations. A series of dye photodegradation studies, based on the oxidative decomposition of Rhodamine B, demonstrates the reactivity of the charge separated excited state and the photocatalytic capacity of these MOF materials compared to traditional heterometal-doped semiconductor photocatalysts.
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- Conor L Long
- Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University-Newark, Newark, New Jersey 07102, USA
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- X-ray Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University-Newark, Newark, New Jersey 07102, USA
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Dohn AO, Markmann V, Nimmrich A, Haldrup K, Møller KB, Nielsen MM. Eliminating finite-size effects on the calculation of x-ray scattering from molecular dynamics simulations. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:124115. [PMID: 38127395 DOI: 10.1063/5.0164365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 09/01/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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Structural studies using x-ray scattering methods for investigating molecules in solution are shifting focus toward describing the role and effects of the surrounding solvent. However, forward models based on molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to simulate structure factors and x-ray scattering from interatomic distributions such as radial distribution functions (RDFs) face limitations imposed by simulations, particularly at low values of the scattering vector q. In this work, we show how the value of the structure factor at q = 0 calculated from RDFs sampled from finite MD simulations is effectively dependent on the size of the simulation cell. To eliminate this error, we derive a new scheme to renormalize the sampled RDFs based on a model of the excluded volume of the particle-pairs they were sampled from, to emulate sampling from an infinite system. We compare this new correction method to two previous RDF-correction methods, developed for Kirkwood-Buff theory applications. We present a quantitative test to assess the reliability of the simulated low-q scattering signal and show that our RDF-correction successfully recovers the correct q = 0 limit for neat water. We investigate the effect of MD-sampling time on the RDF-corrections, before advancing to a molecular example system, comprised of a transition metal complex solvated in a series of water cells with varying densities. We show that our correction recovers the correct q = 0 behavior for all densities. Furthermore, we employ a simple continuum scattering model to dissect the total scattering signal from the solvent-solvent structural correlations in a solute-solvent model system to find two distinct contributions: a non-local density-contribution from the finite, fixed cell size in NVT simulations, and a local contribution from the solvent shell. We show how the second contribution can be approximated without also including the finite-size contribution. Finally, we provide a "best-practices"-checklist for experimentalists planning to incorporate explicit solvation MD simulations in future work, offering guidance for improving the accuracy and reliability of structural studies using x-ray scattering methods in solution.
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- A O Dohn
- Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
- Science Institute and Faculty of Physical Sciences, VR-III, University of Iceland, Reykjavík 107, 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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- Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry, 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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Kumaki F, Nagasaka M, Fukaya R, Okano Y, Yamashita S, Nozawa S, Adachi SI, Adachi JI. Operando time-resolved soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy for photoexcitation processes of metal complexes in solutions. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:104201. [PMID: 36922146 DOI: 10.1063/5.0129814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/22/2023] Open
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Operando time-resolved soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy (TR-SXAS) is an effective method to reveal the photochemical processes of metal complexes in solutions. In this study, we have developed the TR-SXAS measurement system for observing various photochemical reactions in solutions by the combination of laser pump pulses with soft x-ray probe pulses from the synchrotron radiation. For the evaluation of the developed TR-SXAS system, we have measured nitrogen K-edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) spectra of aqueous iron phenanthroline solutions during a photoinduced spin transition process. The decay process of the high spin state to the low spin state in the iron complex has been obtained from the ligand side by N K-edge XAS, and the time constant is close to that obtained from the central metal side by time-resolved Fe K-edge XAS in the previous studies.
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- Fumitoshi Kumaki
- Department of Materials Structure Science, School of High Energy Accelerator Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- Department of Materials Structure Science, School of High Energy Accelerator Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki 444-8585, Japan
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- Department of Materials Structure Science, School of High Energy Accelerator Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- Department of Materials Structure Science, School of High Energy Accelerator Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- Department of Materials Structure Science, School of High Energy Accelerator Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- Department of Materials Structure Science, School of High Energy Accelerator Science, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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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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Missana A, Hauser A, Lawson Daku LM. Environmental Control of the Magnetic Behavior of Transition Metal Complexes: Density Functional Theory Study of Zeolite Y Embedded Complexes [M(bpy) 3] 2+@Y (M = Fe 2+, Co 2+). J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:6221-6235. [PMID: 36067495 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c05070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Using the supramolecular approach developed for the study of the guest-host interactions in the zeolite Y encapsulated [Fe(bpy)3]2+ compound: [Fe(bpy)3]2+@Y (bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine) [Vargas et al., J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2009, 5, 97-115], we apply density functional theory (DFT) to the study of the influence of zeolite Y encapsulation on the structural and energetic properties of [Co(bpy)3]2+ in the low-spin (LS) and high-spin (HS) states, while revisiting [Fe(bpy)3]2+@Y. Although the accurate prediction of the HS-LS energy difference ΔEHLel remains challenging for current DFT methods, they give accurate estimates of its variation Δ(ΔEHLel) in a series of complexes of a given transition metal ion. Therefore, denoting [M(bpy)3]2+@YSM as the supramolecular model of the inclusion compounds, the values of ΔEHLel for the bpy complexes in the gas phase and in the supercage of zeolite Y were determined by combining the DFT estimates of Δ(ΔEHLel) in the series {[M(NCH)6]2+, [M(bpy)3]2+, and [M(bpy)3]2+@YSM}, with accurate CCSD(T) estimates of ΔEHLel in the benchmark complexes [M(NCH)6]2+ (M = Fe, Co) [Lawson Daku et al., J. Chem. Theory Comput., 2012, 8, 4216-4231]. Generalized gradient approximations as well as global and range-separated hybrids were employed. In order to better account for the key role of dispersion, they were also augmented with the semiempirical D2, D3BJ, and D3BJM dispersion corrections when available. The use of the D3BJ and D3BJM corrections led to similar results, and this is only with the use of the D2 scheme that (i) the free and encapsulated [Fe(bpy)3]2+ are correctly predicted as LS species and that (ii) the encapsulation of both complexes translates into a destabilization of their HS state with respect to their LS state. The increase of the HS-LS energy difference is smaller for [Co(bpy)3]2+ than [Fe(bpy)3]2+ because the HS-LS molecular volume difference ΔVHL in [Co(bpy)3]2+ is ∼50% smaller than in [Fe(bpy)3]2+. Periodic DFT calculations performed on crystalline [M(bpy)3]2+@Y show that the employed [M(bpy)3]2+@YSM supramolecular model allows the influence of encapsulation on the geometry and the spin-state energetics of [M(bpy)3]2+ (M = Fe, Co) to be quantitatively captured.
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- Andrea Missana
- Université de Genève, 30 quai Ernest-Ansermet, CH-1211Genève 4, Switzerland
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- Université de Genève, 30 quai Ernest-Ansermet, CH-1211Genève 4, Switzerland
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Zederkof DB, Møller KB, Nielsen MM, Haldrup K, González L, Mai S. Resolving Femtosecond Solvent Reorganization Dynamics in an Iron Complex by Nonadiabatic Dynamics Simulations. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:12861-12873. [PMID: 35776920 PMCID: PMC9305979 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c04505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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The ultrafast dynamical
response of solute–solvent interactions
plays a key role in transition metal complexes, where charge transfer
states are ubiquitous. Nonetheless, there exist very few excited-state
simulations of transition metal complexes in solution. Here, we carry
out a nonadiabatic dynamics study of the iron complex [Fe(CN)4(bpy)]2– (bpy = 2,2′-bipyridine)
in explicit aqueous solution. Implicit solvation models were found
inadequate for reproducing the strong solvatochromism in the absorption
spectra. Instead, direct solute–solvent interactions, in the
form of hydrogen bonds, are responsible for the large observed solvatochromic
shift and the general dynamical behavior of the complex in water.
The simulations reveal an overall intersystem crossing time scale
of 0.21 ± 0.01 ps and a strong reliance of this process
on nuclear motion. A charge transfer character analysis shows a branched
decay mechanism from the initially excited singlet metal-to-ligand
charge transfer (1MLCT) states to triplet states of 3MLCT and metal-centered (3MC) character. We also
find that solvent reorganization after excitation is ultrafast, on
the order of 50 fs around the cyanides and slower around the
bpy ligand. In contrast, the nuclear vibrational dynamics, in the
form of Fe–ligand bond changes, takes place on slightly longer
time scales. We demonstrate that the surprisingly fast solvent reorganizing
should be observable in time-resolved X-ray solution scattering experiments,
as simulated signals show strong contributions from the solute–solvent
scattering cross term. Altogether, the simulations paint a comprehensive
picture of the coupled and concurrent electronic, nuclear, and solvent
dynamics and interactions in the first hundreds of femtoseconds after
excitation.
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- Diana Bregenholt Zederkof
- Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Fysikvej, bygning 307, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.,Scientific Instrument Femtosecond X-ray Experiments, European XFEL GmbH, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet, bygning 207, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Fysikvej, bygning 307, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Fysikvej, bygning 307, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währinger Straße 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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Zulfikri H, Pápai M, Dohn AO. Simulating the solvation structure of low- and high-spin [Fe(bpy) 3] 2+: long-range dispersion and many-body effects. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:16655-16670. [PMID: 35766396 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp00892k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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When characterizing transition metal complexes and their functionalities, the importance of including the solvent as an active participant is becoming more and more apparent. Whereas many studies have evaluated long-range dispersion effects inside organic molecules and organometallics, less is known about their role in solvation. Here, we have analysed the components within solute-solvent and solvent-solvent interactions of one of the most studied iron-based photoswitch model systems, in two spin states. We find that long-range dispersion effects modulate the coordination significantly, and that this is accurately captured by density functional theory models including dispersion corrections. We furthermore correlate gas-phase relaxed complex-water clusters to thermally averaged molecular densities. This shows how the gas-phase interactions translate to solution structure, quantified through 3D molecular densities, angular distributions, and radial distribution functions. We show that finite-size simulation cells can cause the radial distribution functions to have artificially enlarged amplitudes. Finally, we quantify the effects of many-body interactions within the solvent shells, and find that almost a fifth of the total interaction energy of the solute-shell system in the high-spin state comes from many-body contributions, which cannot be captured by by pair-wise additive force field methods.
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- Habiburrahman Zulfikri
- Science Institute and Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland, VR-III, Reykjavík 107, Iceland.
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- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet 207, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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- Science Institute and Faculty of Physical Sciences, University of Iceland, VR-III, Reykjavík 107, Iceland. .,Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Fysikvej 307, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
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Chiral control of spin-crossover dynamics in Fe(II) complexes. Nat Chem 2022; 14:739-745. [PMID: 35618767 DOI: 10.1038/s41557-022-00933-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2021] [Accepted: 03/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Iron-based spin-crossover complexes hold tremendous promise as multifunctional switches in molecular devices. However, real-world technological applications require the excited high-spin state to be kinetically stable-a feature that has been achieved only at cryogenic temperatures. Here we demonstrate high-spin-state trapping by controlling the chiral configuration of the prototypical iron(II)tris(4,4'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridine) in solution, associated for stereocontrol with the enantiopure Δ- or Λ-enantiomer of tris(3,4,5,6-tetrachlorobenzene-1,2-diolato-κ2O1,O2)phosphorus(V) (P(O2C6Cl4)3- or TRISPHAT) anions. We characterize the high-spin-state relaxation using broadband ultrafast circular dichroism spectroscopy in the deep ultraviolet in combination with transient absorption and anisotropy measurements. We find that the high-spin-state decay is accompanied by ultrafast changes of its optical activity, reflecting the coupling to a symmetry-breaking torsional twisting mode, contrary to the commonly assumed picture. The diastereoselective ion pairing suppresses the vibrational population of the identified reaction coordinate, thereby achieving a fourfold increase of the high-spin-state lifetime. More generally, our results motivate the synthetic control of the torsional modes of iron(II) complexes as a complementary route to manipulate their spin-crossover dynamics.
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Nadeem M, Cruddas J, Ruzzi G, Powell BJ. Toward High-Temperature Light-Induced Spin-State Trapping in Spin-Crossover Materials: The Interplay of Collective and Molecular Effects. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:9138-9148. [PMID: 35546521 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c03202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Abstract
Spin-crossover (SCO) materials display many fascinating behaviors including collective phase transitions and spin-state switching controlled by external stimuli, e.g., light and electrical currents. As single-molecule switches, they have been fêted for numerous practical applications, but these remain largely unrealized-partly because of the difficulty of switching these materials at high temperatures. We introduce a semiempirical microscopic model of SCO materials combining crystal field theory with elastic intermolecular interactions. For realistic parameters, this model reproduces the key experimental results including thermally induced phase transitions, light-induced spin-state trapping (LIESST), and reverse-LIESST. Notably, we reproduce and explain the experimentally observed relationship between the critical temperature of the thermal transition, T1/2, and the highest temperature for which the trapped state is stable, TLIESST, and explain why increasing the stiffness of the coordination sphere increases TLIESST. We propose strategies to design SCO materials with higher TLIESST: optimizing the spin-orbit coupling via heavier atoms (particularly in the inner coordination sphere) and minimizing the enthalpy difference between the high-spin (HS) and low-spin (LS) states. However, the most dramatic increases arise from increasing the cooperativity of the spin-state transition by increasing the rigidity of the crystal. Increased crystal rigidity can also stabilize the HS state to low temperatures on thermal cycling yet leave the LS state stable at high temperatures following, for example, reverse-LIESST. We show that such highly cooperative systems offer a realistic route to robust room-temperature switching, demonstrate this in silico, and discuss material design rationale to realize this.
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- M Nadeem
- School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- School of Physical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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Benchmarking Plane Waves Quantum Mechanical Calculations of Iron(II) Tris(2,2′-bipyridine) Complex by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy. CONDENSED MATTER 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/condmat7010016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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In this work, we used, for the first time, a computational Self-Consistent Field procedure based on plane waves to describe the low and high spin conformational states of the complex [Fe(bpy)3]2+. The results obtained in the study of the minimum energy structures of this complex, a prototype of a wide class of compounds called Spin Cross Over, show how the plane wave calculations are in line with the most recent studies based on gaussian basis set functions and, above all, reproduce within acceptable errors the experimental spectra of X-ray absorption near-edge structure spectroscopy (XANES). This preliminary study shows the capabilities of plane wave methods to correctly describe the molecular structures of metal-organic complexes of this type and paves the way for future even complex computational simulations based on the energy gradient, such as Nudge Elastic Band or ab-initio Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics.
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Advances over the past decade have presented new avenues to achieve control over material properties using intense pulses of electromagnetic radiation, with frequencies ranging from optical (approximately 1 PHz, or 1015 Hz) down to below 1 THz (1012 Hz). Some of these new developments have arisen from new experimental methods to drive and observe transient material properties, while others have emerged from new computational techniques that have made nonequilibrium dynamics more tractable to our understanding. One common issue with most attempts to realize control using electromagnetic pulses is the dissipation of energy, which in many cases poses a limit due to uncontrolled heating and has led to strong interest in using lower frequency and/or highly specific excitations to minimize this effect. Emergent developments in experimental tools using shaped X-ray pulses may in the future offer new possibilities for material control, provided that the issue of heat dissipation can be resolved for higher frequency light. The concept of using appropriately shaped pulses of light to control the properties of materials has a range of potential applications, and relies on an understanding of intricate couplings within the material.![]()
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- Steven L Johnson
- Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Auguste-Piccard-Hof 1, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institute, Forschungsstrasse 111, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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Ahoulou S, Vilà N, Pillet S, Carteret C, Schaniel D, Walcarius A. Multi-stimuli Photo and Redox-active Nanostructured Mesoporous Silica Films on Transparent Electrodes. Chemphyschem 2021; 22:2464-2477. [PMID: 34708493 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202100608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/18/2021] [Revised: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
Abstract
Silica matrices hosting transition metal guest complexes may offer remarkable platforms for the development of advanced functional devices. We report here the elaboration of ordered and vertically oriented mesoporous silica thin films containing covalently attached tris(bipyridine)iron derivatives using a combination of electrochemically assisted self-assembly (EASA) method and Huisgen cycloaddition reaction. Such a versatile approach is primarily used to bind nitrogen-based chelating ligands such as (4-[(2-propyn-1-yloxy)]4'-methyl-2,2'-bypiridine, bpy') inside the nanochannels. Further derivatization of the bpy'-functionalized silica thin films is then achieved via a subsequent in-situ complexation step to generate [Fe(bpy)2 (bpy')]2+ inside the mesopore channels. After giving spectroscopic evidences for the presence of such complexes in the functionalized film, electrochemistry is used to transform the confined diamagnetic (S=0) F e L S b p y 2 b p y ' 2 + species to paramagnetic (S=1/2) oxidized F e L S b p y 2 b p y ' 3 + species in a reversible way, while blue light irradiation (λ=470 nm) enables populating the short-lived paramagnetic (S=2) F e H S b p y 2 b p y ' 2 + excited state. [Fe(bpy)2 (bpy')]2+ -functionalized ordered films are therefore both electro- and photo-active through the manipulation of the oxidation state and spin state of the confined complexes, paving the way for their integration in optoelectronic devices.
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- Samuel Ahoulou
- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LCPME UMR 7564, 54000, Nancy, France.,Université de Lorraine, CRM2 UMR 7036, 54000, Nancy, France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LCPME UMR 7564, 54000, Nancy, France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LCPME UMR 7564, 54000, Nancy, France
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- Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LCPME UMR 7564, 54000, Nancy, France
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Kinigstein ED, Jennings G, Kurtz CA, March AM, Zuo X, Chen LX, Attenkofer K, Zhang X. X-ray multi-probe data acquisition: A novel technique for laser pump x-ray transient absorption spectroscopy. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2021; 92:085109. [PMID: 34470434 DOI: 10.1063/5.0050713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We report the development and implementation of a novel data acquisition (DAQ) technique for synchrotron-based laser pump X-ray Transient Absorption (XTA) spectroscopy, called X-ray Multi-Probe DAQ (XMP DAQ). This technique utilizes high performance analog to digital converters and home-built software to efficiently measure and process the XTA signal from all x-ray pulses between laser excitations. XMP DAQ generates a set of time resolved x-ray absorption spectra at thousands of different pump-probe time delays simultaneously. Two distinct XMP DAQ schemes are deployed to accommodate different synchrotron storage ring filling patterns. Current Integration (CI) DAQ is a quasi-analog technique that implements a fitting procedure to extract the time resolved absorption intensity from the averaged fluorescence detector response. The fitting procedure eliminates issues associated with small drifts in the voltage baseline and greatly enhances the accuracy of the technique. Photon Counting (PC) DAQ is a binary technique that uses a time resolved histogram to calculate the XTA spectrum. While PC DAQ is suited to measure XTA data with closely spaced x-ray pulses (∼10 ns) and a low count rate (<1 detected photon/pulse), CI DAQ works best for widely spaced pulses (tens of ns or greater) with a high count rate (>1 detected photon/pulse). XMP DAQ produces a two-dimensional XTA dataset, enabling efficient quantitative analysis of photophysical and photochemical processes from the sub-nanosecond timescale to 100 μs and longer.
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- Eli D Kinigstein
- X-ray Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- X-ray Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- X-ray Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- X-ray Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
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- Experimental Division, ALBA Synchrotron Light Source, Carrer de la Llum 2-26, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona 08290, Spain
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- X-ray Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA
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Jay RM, Eckert S, Van Kuiken BE, Ochmann M, Hantschmann M, Cordones AA, Cho H, Hong K, Ma R, Lee JH, Dakovski GL, Turner JJ, Minitti MP, Quevedo W, Pietzsch A, Beye M, Kim TK, Schoenlein RW, Wernet P, Föhlisch A, Huse N. Following Metal-to-Ligand Charge-Transfer Dynamics with Ligand and Spin Specificity Using Femtosecond Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering at the Nitrogen K-Edge. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:6676-6683. [PMID: 34260255 PMCID: PMC8312498 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2021] [Accepted: 06/04/2021] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We demonstrate for the case of photoexcited [Ru(2,2'-bipyridine)3]2+ how femtosecond resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at the ligand K-edge allows one to uniquely probe changes in the valence electronic structure following a metal-to-ligand charge-transfer (MLCT) excitation. Metal-ligand hybridization is probed by nitrogen-1s resonances providing information on both the electron-accepting ligand in the MLCT state and the hole density of the metal center. By comparing to spectrum calculations based on density functional theory, we are able to distinguish the electronic structure of the electron-accepting ligand and the other ligands and determine a temporal upper limit of (250 ± 40) fs for electron localization following the charge-transfer excitation. The spin of the localized electron is deduced from the selection rules of the RIXS process establishing new experimental capabilities for probing transient charge and spin densities.
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- Raphael M. Jay
- Institut für Physik und Astronomie,
Universität Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam,
Germany
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- Institut für Physik und Astronomie,
Universität Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam,
Germany
- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for
Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für
Materialien und Energie, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of
Hamburg and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, 22761 Hamburg,
Germany
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- Institut für Physik und Astronomie,
Universität Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam,
Germany
- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for
Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für
Materialien und Energie, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Ultrafast X-ray Science Lab, Chemical Sciences
Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley,
California 94720, United States
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- Ultrafast X-ray Science Lab, Chemical Sciences
Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley,
California 94720, United States
- Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute of Functional
Materials, Pusan National University, Busan 46241,
South Korea
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute of Functional
Materials, Pusan National University, Busan 46241,
South Korea
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- Department of Physics, University of
Hamburg and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, 22761 Hamburg,
Germany
- Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute of Functional
Materials, Pusan National University, Busan 46241,
South Korea
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- Ultrafast X-ray Science Lab, Chemical Sciences
Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley,
California 94720, United States
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC
National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025,
United States
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC
National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025,
United States
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences,
Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305,
United States
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC
National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025,
United States
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for
Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für
Materialien und Energie, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for
Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für
Materialien und Energie, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for
Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für
Materialien und Energie, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Yonsei
University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea
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- Ultrafast X-ray Science Lab, Chemical Sciences
Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley,
California 94720, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy,
Uppsala University, 75120 Uppsala,
Sweden
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- Institut für Physik und Astronomie,
Universität Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam,
Germany
- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for
Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für
Materialien und Energie, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of
Hamburg and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, 22761 Hamburg,
Germany
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Shimoda Y, Miyata K, Funaki M, Ehara T, Morimoto T, Nozawa S, Adachi SI, Ishitani O, Onda K. Determining Excited-State Structures and Photophysical Properties in Phenylphosphine Rhenium(I) Diimine Biscarbonyl Complexes Using Time-Resolved Infrared and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopies. Inorg Chem 2021; 60:7773-7784. [PMID: 33971089 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We have explored the structural factors on the photophysical properties in two rhenium(I) diimine complexes in acetonitrile solution, cis,trans-[Re(dmb)(CO)2(PPh2Et)2]+ (Et(2,2)) and cis,trans-[Re(dmb)(CO)2(PPh3)2]+ ((3,3)) (dmb = 4,4'-dimethyl-2,2'-bipyridine, Ph = phenyl, Et = ethyl) using the combination method of time-resolved infrared spectroscopy, time-resolved extended X-ray absorption fine structure, and quantum chemical calculations. The difference between these complexes is the number of phenyl groups in the phosphine ligand, and this only indirectly affects the central Re(I). Despite this minor difference, the complexes exhibit large differences in emission wavelength and excited-state lifetime. Upon photoexcitation, the bond length of Re-P and angle of P-Re-P are significantly changed in both complexes, while the phenyl groups are largely rotated by ∼20° only in (3,3). In contrast, there is little change in charge distribution on the phenyl groups when Re to dmb charge transfer occurs upon photoexcitation. We concluded that the instability from steric effects of phenyl groups and diimine leads to a smaller Stokes shift of the lowest excited triplet state (T1) in (3,3). The large structural change between the ground and excited states causes the longer lifetime of T1 in (3,3).
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- Yuushi Shimoda
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Technology, Katakuramachi, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0982, Japan
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- Photon Factory, Institute of Materials Structure Sciences, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- Photon Factory, Institute of Materials Structure Sciences, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
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Lawson Daku LM. Spin-state dependence of the structural and vibrational properties of solvated iron(ii) polypyridyl complexes from AIMD simulations: III. [Fe(tpen)]Cl 2 in acetonitrile. RSC Adv 2020; 10:43343-43357. [PMID: 35519674 PMCID: PMC9058091 DOI: 10.1039/d0ra09499d] [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: 11/08/2020] [Accepted: 11/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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In order to achieve an in-depth understanding of the role played by the solvent in the photoinduced low-spin (LS) → high-spin (HS) transition in solvated Fe(ii) complexes, an accurate description of the solvated complexes in the two spin states is required. To this end, we are applying state-of-the-art ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations to the study of the structural and vibrational properties of iron(ii) polypyridyl complexes. Two aqueous LS complexes were investigated in this framework, namely, [Fe(bpy)3]2+ (bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine) [Lawson Daku and Hauser, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2010, 1, 1830; Lawson Daku, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2018, 20, 6236] and [Fe(tpy)2]2+ (tpy = 2,2':6',2''-ter-pyridine) [Lawson Daku, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 650]. For aqueous [Fe(bpy)3]2+, combining the results of forefront wide-angle X-ray scattering experiments with those of the AIMD simulations allowed the visualization of the interlaced coordination and solvation spheres of the photoinduced HS state [Khakhulin et al., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2019, 21, 9277]. In this paper, we report the extension of our AIMD studies to the spin-crossover complex [Fe(tpen)]2+ (tpen = N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(2-pyridylmethyl)ethylenediamine) in acetonitrile (ACN). The determined LS and HS solution structures of the complex are in excellent agreement with the experimental results obtained by high-resolution transient X-ray absorption spectroscopy [Zhang et al., ACS Omega, 2019, 4, 6375]. The first solvation shell of [Fe(tpen)]2+ consists of ACN molecules located in the grooves defined by the chelating coordination motif of the tpen ligand. Upon the LS → HS change of states, the solvation number of the complex is found to increase from ≈9.2 to ≈11.9 and an inner solvation shell is formed. This inner solvation shell originates from the occupancy by about one ACN molecule of the internal cavity which results from the arrangement of the 4 pyridine rings of the tpen ligand, and which becomes accessible to the solvent molecules in the HS state only thanks to the structural changes undergone by the complex. The presence of this inner solvation shell for the solvated HS complex probably plays a key role in the spin-state dependent reactivity of [Fe(tpen)]2+ in liquid solutions.
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- Latévi M Lawson Daku
- Département de Chimie Physique, Université de Genève Quai E. Ansermet 30 CH-1211 Genève 4 Switzerland
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Femtosecond X-ray emission study of the spin cross-over dynamics in haem proteins. Nat Commun 2020; 11:4145. [PMID: 32811825 PMCID: PMC7434878 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17923-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2020] [Accepted: 07/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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In haemoglobin the change from the low-spin (LS) hexacoordinated haem to the high spin (HS, S = 2) pentacoordinated domed deoxy-myoglobin (deoxyMb) form upon ligand detachment from the haem and the reverse process upon ligand binding are what ultimately drives the respiratory function. Here we probe them in the case of Myoglobin-NO (MbNO) using element- and spin-sensitive femtosecond Fe Kα and Kβ X-ray emission spectroscopy at an X-ray free-electron laser (FEL). We find that the change from the LS (S = 1/2) MbNO to the HS haem occurs in ~800 fs, and that it proceeds via an intermediate (S = 1) spin state. We also show that upon NO recombination, the return to the planar MbNO ground state is an electronic relaxation from HS to LS taking place in ~30 ps. Thus, the entire ligand dissociation-recombination cycle in MbNO is a spin cross-over followed by a reverse spin cross-over process. The change from low-spin hexacoordinated to high-spin pentacoordinated domed form in heam upon ligand detachment and the reverse process underlie the respiratory function. The authors, using femtosecond time-resolved X-ray emission spectroscopy, capture the transient states connecting the two forms in myoglobin-NO upon NO photoinduced detachment.
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Iglesias S, Gamonal A, Abudulimu A, Picón A, Carrasco E, Écija D, Liu C, Luer L, Zhang X, Costa JS, Moonshiram D. Tracking the Light-Induced Excited-State Dynamics and Structural Configurations of an Extraordinarily Long-Lived Metastable State at Room Temperature. Chemistry 2020; 26:10801-10810. [PMID: 32452581 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202001393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2020] [Revised: 05/22/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Time-resolved X-ray (Tr-XAS) and optical transient absorption (OTA) spectroscopy on the pico-microsecond timescale coupled with density functional theory calculations are applied to study the light-induced spin crossover processes of a Fe-based macrocyclic complex in solution. Tr-XAS analysis after light illumination shows the formation of a seven-coordinated high-spin quintet metastable state, which relaxes to a six-coordinated high-spin configuration before decaying to the ground state. Kinetic analysis of the macrocyclic complex reveals an unprecedented long-lived decay lifetime of approximately 42.6 μs. Comparative studies with a non-macrocyclic counterpart illustrate a significantly shortened approximately 568-fold decay lifetime of about 75 ns, and highlight the importance of the ligand arrangement in stabilizing the reactivity of the excited state. Lastly, OTA analysis shows the seven-coordinated high-spin state to be formed within approximately 6.2 ps. These findings provide a complete understanding of the spin crossover reaction and relaxation pathways of the macrocyclic complex, and reveal the importance of a flexible coordination environment for their rational design.
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- Sirma Iglesias
- Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en, Nanociencia (IMDEA Nanociencia), Calle Faraday 9, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en, Nanociencia (IMDEA Nanociencia), Calle Faraday 9, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en, Nanociencia (IMDEA Nanociencia), Calle Faraday 9, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en, Nanociencia (IMDEA Nanociencia), Calle Faraday 9, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en, Nanociencia (IMDEA Nanociencia), Calle Faraday 9, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en, Nanociencia (IMDEA Nanociencia), Calle Faraday 9, 28049, Madrid, Spain.,Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Martensstraße 7, 91058, Erlangen, Germany
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en, Nanociencia (IMDEA Nanociencia), Calle Faraday 9, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en, Nanociencia (IMDEA Nanociencia), Calle Faraday 9, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Miller JN, McCusker JK. Outer-sphere effects on ligand-field excited-state dynamics: solvent dependence of high-spin to low-spin conversion in [Fe(bpy) 3] 2. Chem Sci 2020; 11:5191-5204. [PMID: 34122975 PMCID: PMC8159330 DOI: 10.1039/d0sc01506g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2020] [Accepted: 05/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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In condensed phase chemistry, the solvent can have a significant impact on everything from yield to product distribution to mechanism. With regard to photo-induced processes, solvent effects have been well-documented for charge-transfer states wherein the redistribution of charge subsequent to light absorption couples intramolecular dynamics to the local environment of the chromophore. Ligand-field excited states are expected to be largely insensitive to such perturbations given that their electronic rearrangements are localized on the metal center and are therefore insulated from so-called outer-sphere effects by the ligands themselves. In contrast to this expectation, we document herein a nearly two-fold variation in the time constant associated with the 5T2 → 1A1 high-spin to low-spin relaxation process of tris(2,2'-bipyridine)iron(ii) ([Fe(bpy)3]2+) across a range of different solvents. Likely origins for this solvent dependence, including relevant solvent properties, ion pairing, and changes in solvation energy, were considered and assessed by studying [Fe(bpy)3]2+ and related derivatives via ultrafast time-resolved absorption spectroscopy and computational analyses. It was concluded that the effect is most likely associated with the volume change of the chromophore arising from the interconfigurational nature of the 5T2 → 1A1 relaxation process, resulting in changes to the solvent-solvent and/or solvent-solute interactions of the primary solvation shell sufficient to alter the overall reorganization energy of the system and influencing the kinetics of ground-state recovery.
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- Jennifer N Miller
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University 578 South Shaw Lane East Lansing Michigan 48824 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University 578 South Shaw Lane East Lansing Michigan 48824 USA
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Ultrafast X-ray Photochemistry at European XFEL: Capabilities of the Femtosecond X-ray Experiments (FXE) Instrument. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2020. [DOI: 10.3390/app10030995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Time-resolved X-ray methods are widely used for monitoring transient intermediates over the course of photochemical reactions. Ultrafast X-ray absorption and emission spectroscopies as well as elastic X-ray scattering deliver detailed electronic and structural information on chemical dynamics in the solution phase. In this work, we describe the opportunities at the Femtosecond X-ray Experiments (FXE) instrument of European XFEL. Guided by the idea of combining spectroscopic and scattering techniques in one experiment, the FXE instrument has completed the initial commissioning phase for most of its components and performed first successful experiments within the baseline capabilities. This is demonstrated by its currently 115 fs (FWHM) temporal resolution to acquire ultrafast X-ray emission spectra by simultaneously recording iron Kα and Kβ lines, next to wide angle X-ray scattering patterns on a photoexcited aqueous solution of [Fe(bpy)3]2+, a transition metal model compound.
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van Veenendaal M. Dissipation and dynamics in ultrafast intersystem crossings. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:024104. [PMID: 31941326 DOI: 10.1063/1.5125005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [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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The effects of dynamics and dissipation on ultrafast intersystem crossings are studied for a dissipative two-level system coupled to a local vibronic mode. A method of amplitude damping of the wave packet is presented that accounts better for the position of the wave packet and avoids spurious transitions between potential wells. It is demonstrated that Fermi's golden rule, the typical semiquantitative approach to extract population transfer rates from potential landscapes, only holds under limited conditions. Generally, the effects of dynamics and dissipation lead to deviations from the expected exponential population transfer, strong changes in transfer times and total population transfer, and significant recurrence or "spill back" of the wave packet.
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Hanna L, Long CL, Zhang X, Lockard JV. Heterometal incorporation in NH2-MIL-125(Ti) and its participation in the photoinduced charge-separated excited state. Chem Commun (Camb) 2020; 56:11597-11600. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cc05339b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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X-ray spectroscopy studies reveal the location and role of Fe3+ sites incorporated in a Ti-based MOF exhibiting photo-induced charge separation.
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- Lauren Hanna
- Department of Chemistry
- Rutgers University-Newark
- Newark
- USA
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- Department of Chemistry
- Rutgers University-Newark
- Newark
- USA
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- Advanced Photon Source
- Argonne National Laboratory
- Lemont
- USA
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Katayama T, Northey T, Gawelda W, Milne CJ, Vankó G, Lima FA, Bohinc R, Németh Z, Nozawa S, Sato T, Khakhulin D, Szlachetko J, Togashi T, Owada S, Adachi SI, Bressler C, Yabashi M, Penfold TJ. Tracking multiple components of a nuclear wavepacket in photoexcited Cu(I)-phenanthroline complex using ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy. Nat Commun 2019; 10:3606. [PMID: 31399565 PMCID: PMC6689108 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11499-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2019] [Accepted: 07/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Disentangling the strong interplay between electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom is essential to achieve a full understanding of excited state processes during ultrafast nonadiabatic chemical reactions. However, the complexity of multi-dimensional potential energy surfaces means that this remains challenging. The energy flow during vibrational and electronic relaxation processes can be explored with structural sensitivity by probing a nuclear wavepacket using femtosecond time-resolved X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure (TR-XANES). However, it remains unknown to what level of detail vibrational motions are observable in this X-ray technique. Herein we track the wavepacket dynamics of a prototypical [Cu(2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline)2]+ complex using TR-XANES. We demonstrate that sensitivity to individual wavepacket components can be modulated by the probe energy and that the bond length change associated with molecular breathing mode can be tracked with a sub-Angstrom resolution beyond optical-domain observables. Importantly, our results reveal how state-of-the-art TR-XANES provides deeper insights of ultrafast nonadiabatic chemical reactions.
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- Tetsuo Katayama
- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Kouto 1-1-1, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5198, Japan. .,RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan.
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- Chemistry-School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869, Schenefeld, Germany.,Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, 61-614, Poznań, Poland
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1525, Budapest, Hungary
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- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232, Villigen-PSI, Switzerland
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1525, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan.,Department of Materials Structure Science, School of High Energy Accelerator Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869, Schenefeld, Germany.,Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 31-342, Kraków, Poland
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Kouto 1-1-1, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5198, Japan.,RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Kouto 1-1-1, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5198, Japan.,RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan
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- Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan.,Department of Materials Structure Science, School of High Energy Accelerator Science, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0801, Japan
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869, Schenefeld, Germany.,Centre for Ultrafast Imaging CUI, University of Hamburg, 22761, Hamburg, Germany
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- RIKEN SPring-8 Center, 1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo, Hyogo, 679-5148, Japan
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- Chemistry-School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
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Britz A, Gawelda W, Assefa TA, Jamula LL, Yarranton JT, Galler A, Khakhulin D, Diez M, Harder M, Doumy G, March AM, Bajnóczi É, Németh Z, Pápai M, Rozsályi E, Sárosiné Szemes D, Cho H, Mukherjee S, Liu C, Kim TK, Schoenlein RW, Southworth SH, Young L, Jakubikova E, Huse N, Vankó G, Bressler C, McCusker JK. Using Ultrafast X-ray Spectroscopy To Address Questions in Ligand-Field Theory: The Excited State Spin and Structure of [Fe(dcpp)2]2+. Inorg Chem 2019; 58:9341-9350. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Alexander Britz
- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
- Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 85, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
- Institute of Laser Physics, University of Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy Sciences, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy Sciences, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy Sciences, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
- Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy Sciences, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
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- Center for Analytical Chemistry, Division of Chemical and Medical Metrology, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon 34113, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Institute of Functional Materials, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
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- Ultrafast X-ray Science Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
- Department of Physics and The James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, United States
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, University of Hamburg, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy Sciences, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, United States
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Wernet P. Chemical interactions and dynamics with femtosecond X-ray spectroscopy and the role of X-ray free-electron lasers. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2019; 377:20170464. [PMID: 30929622 PMCID: PMC6452048 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2017.0464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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X-ray free-electron lasers with intense, tuneable and short-pulse X-ray radiation are transformative tools for the investigation of transition-metal complexes and metalloproteins. This becomes apparent in particular when combining the experimental observables from X-ray spectroscopy with modern theoretical tools for calculations of electronic structures and X-ray spectra from first principles. The combination gives new insights into how charge and spin densities change in chemical reactions and how they determine reactivity. This is demonstrated for the investigations of structural dynamics with metal K-edge absorption spectroscopy, spin states in excited-state dynamics with metal 3p-3d exchange interactions, the frontier-orbital interactions in dissociation and substitution reactions with metal-specific X-ray spectroscopy, and studies of metal oxidation states with femtosecond pulses for 'probe-before-destroy' spectroscopy. The role of X-ray free-electron lasers is addressed with thoughts about how they enable 'bringing back together' different aspects of the same problem and this is thought to go beyond a conventional review paper where these aspects are formulated in italic font type in a prequel, an interlude and in a sequel. This article is part of the theme issue 'Measurement of ultrafast electronic and structural dynamics with X-rays'.
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Zhang J, Zhang X, Suarez-Alcantara K, Jennings G, Kurtz CA, Lawson Daku LM, Canton SE. Resolving the Ultrafast Changes of Chemically Inequivalent Metal-Ligand Bonds in Photoexcited Molecular Complexes with Transient X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy. ACS OMEGA 2019; 4:6375-6381. [PMID: 31459775 PMCID: PMC6648759 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b03688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2018] [Accepted: 03/27/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Photoactive transition-metal complexes that incorporate heteroleptic ligands present a first coordination shell, which is asymmetric. Although it is generally expected that the metal-ligand bond lengths respond differently to photoexcitation, resolving these fine structural changes remains experimentally challenging, especially for flexible multidentate ligands. In this work, ultrafast X-ray absorption spectroscopy is employed to capture directly the asymmetric elongations of chemically inequivalent metal-ligand bonds in the photoexcited spin-switching FeII complex [FeII(tpen)]2+ solvated in acetonitrile, where tpen denotes N,N,N',N'-tetrakis(2-pyridylmethyl)-1,2-ethylenediamine. The possibility to correlate precisely the nature of the donor/acceptor coordinating atoms to specific photoinduced structural changes within a binding motif will provide advanced diagnostics for optimizing numerous photoactive chemical and biological building blocks.
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- Jianxin Zhang
- State
Key Laboratory of Hollow Fiber Membrane Materials and Processes, School
of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- X-ray
Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- UNAM-IIM
Morelia, Antigua carretera
a Pátzcuaro 8710, Col. Ex-hacienda de San José de la
Huerta, Morelia, Michoacán 58190, México
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- X-ray
Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- X-ray
Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Département
de Chimie Physique, Université de
Genève, Quai E. Ansermet 30, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland
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- ELI-ALPS,
ELI-HU Non-Profit Ltd., Dugonics ter 13, Szeged 6720, Hungary
- Attosecond
Science Group, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron
(DESY), Notkestrasse 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
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Kjær KS, Van Driel TB, Harlang TCB, Kunnus K, Biasin E, Ledbetter K, Hartsock RW, Reinhard ME, Koroidov S, Li L, Laursen MG, Hansen FB, Vester P, Christensen M, Haldrup K, Nielsen MM, Dohn AO, Pápai MI, Møller KB, Chabera P, Liu Y, Tatsuno H, Timm C, Jarenmark M, Uhlig J, Sundstöm V, Wärnmark K, Persson P, Németh Z, Szemes DS, Bajnóczi É, Vankó G, Alonso-Mori R, Glownia JM, Nelson S, Sikorski M, Sokaras D, Canton SE, Lemke HT, Gaffney KJ. Finding intersections between electronic excited state potential energy surfaces with simultaneous ultrafast X-ray scattering and spectroscopy. Chem Sci 2019; 10:5749-5760. [PMID: 31293761 PMCID: PMC6568243 DOI: 10.1039/c8sc04023k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2018] [Accepted: 04/21/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Combined X-ray free-electron laser techniques pinpoints loci of intersections between potential energy surfaces of a photo-excited 3d transition-metal centered molecule.
Light-driven molecular reactions are dictated by the excited state potential energy landscape, depending critically on the location of conical intersections and intersystem crossing points between potential surfaces where non-adiabatic effects govern transition probabilities between distinct electronic states. While ultrafast studies have provided significant insight into electronic excited state reaction dynamics, experimental approaches for identifying and characterizing intersections and seams between electronic states remain highly system dependent. Here we show that for 3d transition metal systems simultaneously recorded X-ray diffuse scattering and X-ray emission spectroscopy at sub-70 femtosecond time-resolution provide a solid experimental foundation for determining the mechanistic details of excited state reactions. In modeling the mechanistic information retrieved from such experiments, it becomes possible to identify the dominant trajectory followed during the excited state cascade and to determine the relevant loci of intersections between states. We illustrate our approach by explicitly mapping parts of the potential energy landscape dictating the light driven low-to-high spin-state transition (spin crossover) of [Fe(2,2′-bipyridine)3]2+, where the strongly coupled nuclear and electronic dynamics have been a source of interest and controversy. We anticipate that simultaneous X-ray diffuse scattering and X-ray emission spectroscopy will provide a valuable approach for mapping the reactive trajectories of light-triggered molecular systems involving 3d transition metals.
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- Kasper S Kjær
- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Stanford University , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA . ; .,Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , DK-2800 , Lyngby , Denmark.,Department of Chemical Physics , Lund University , P.O. Box 124 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- LCLS , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA
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- Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , DK-2800 , Lyngby , Denmark.,Department of Chemical Physics , Lund University , P.O. Box 124 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Stanford University , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA . ;
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- Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , DK-2800 , Lyngby , Denmark
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- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Stanford University , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA . ;
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- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Stanford University , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA . ;
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- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Stanford University , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA . ;
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- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Stanford University , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA . ;
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- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Stanford University , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA . ;
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- Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , DK-2800 , Lyngby , Denmark
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- Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , DK-2800 , Lyngby , Denmark
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- Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , DK-2800 , Lyngby , Denmark
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- Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , DK-2800 , Lyngby , Denmark
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- Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , DK-2800 , Lyngby , Denmark
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- Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , DK-2800 , Lyngby , Denmark
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- Science Institute , University of Iceland , 107 Reykjavík , Iceland
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- Science Institute , University of Iceland , 107 Reykjavík , Iceland.,Wigner Research Centre for Physics , Hungarian Academy of Sciences , P.O. Box 49 , H-1525 Budapest , Hungary
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- Science Institute , University of Iceland , 107 Reykjavík , Iceland
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- Department of Chemical Physics , Lund University , P.O. Box 124 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Physics , Lund University , P.O. Box 124 , 22100 Lund , Sweden.,Centre for Analysis and Synthesis , Department of Chemistry , Lund University , P.O. Box 124 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Physics , Lund University , P.O. Box 124 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Physics , Lund University , P.O. Box 124 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- Department of Geology , Department of Chemistry , Lund University , 223 62 Lund , Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Physics , Lund University , P.O. Box 124 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Physics , Lund University , P.O. Box 124 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- Centre for Analysis and Synthesis , Department of Chemistry , Lund University , P.O. Box 124 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- Theoretical Chemistry Division , Department of Chemistry , Lund University , P.O. Box 124 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics , Hungarian Academy of Sciences , P.O. Box 49 , H-1525 Budapest , Hungary
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics , Hungarian Academy of Sciences , P.O. Box 49 , H-1525 Budapest , Hungary
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics , Hungarian Academy of Sciences , P.O. Box 49 , H-1525 Budapest , Hungary
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- Wigner Research Centre for Physics , Hungarian Academy of Sciences , P.O. Box 49 , H-1525 Budapest , Hungary
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- LCLS , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA
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- LCLS , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA
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- LCLS , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA
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- LCLS , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA
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- SSRL , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA
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- ELI-ALPS , ELI-HU Non-Profit Ltd. , Dugonics ter 13 , Szeged 6720 , Hungary.,FS-ATTO , Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) , Notkestrasse 85 , D-22607 Hamburg , Germany
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- LCLS , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA.,SwissFEL , Paul Scherrer Institut , Villigen PSI 5232 , Switzerland
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- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Stanford University , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA . ; .,SSRL , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA
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A review that summarizes the most recent technological developments in the field of ultrafast structural dynamics with focus on the use of ultrashort X-ray and electron pulses follows. Atomistic views of chemical processes and phase transformations have long been the exclusive domain of computer simulators. The advent of femtosecond (fs) hard X-ray and fs-electron diffraction techniques made it possible to bring such a level of scrutiny to the experimental area. The following review article provides a summary of the main ultrafast techniques that enabled the generation of atomically resolved movies utilizing ultrashort X-ray and electron pulses. Recent advances are discussed with emphasis on synchrotron-based methods, tabletop fs-X-ray plasma sources, ultrabright fs-electron diffractometers, and timing techniques developed to further improve the temporal resolution and fully exploit the use of intense and ultrashort X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) pulses.
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- Majed Chergui
- Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide (LSU) and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, ISIC, FSB, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Lawson Daku LM. Spin-state dependence of the structural and vibrational properties of solvated iron(ii) polypyridyl complexes from AIMD simulations: II. aqueous [Fe(tpy)2]Cl2. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:650-661. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp06671j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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LS and HS Fe–O radial distribution functions and running coordination numbers for aqueous [Fe(tpy)2]Cl2: in both spin states, the first hydration shell of [Fe(tpy)2]2+ consists in a chain of ∼15 hydrogen-bonded water molecules wrapped around the ligands.
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Jay RM, Eckert S, Fondell M, Miedema PS, Norell J, Pietzsch A, Quevedo W, Niskanen J, Kunnus K, Föhlisch A. The nature of frontier orbitals under systematic ligand exchange in (pseudo-)octahedral Fe(ii) complexes. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:27745-27751. [PMID: 30211412 PMCID: PMC6240897 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp04341h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The impact of ligand substitution on metal-ligand covalency and the valence excited state landscape is investigated using resonant inelastic soft X-ray scattering.
Understanding and controlling properties of transition metal complexes is a crucial step towards tailoring materials for sustainable energy applications. In a systematic approach, we use resonant inelastic X-ray scattering to study the influence of ligand substitution on the valence electronic structure around an aqueous iron(ii) center. Exchanging cyanide with 2-2′-bipyridine ligands reshapes frontier orbitals in a way that reduces metal 3d charge delocalization onto the ligands. This net decrease of metal–ligand covalency results in lower metal-centered excited state energies in agreement with previously reported excited state dynamics. Furthermore, traces of solvent-effects were found indicating a varying interaction strength of the solvent with ligands of different character. Our results demonstrate how ligand exchange can be exploited to shape frontier orbitals of transition metal complexes in solution-phase chemistry; insights upon which future efforts can built when tailoring the functionality of photoactive systems for light-harvesting applications.
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- Raphael M Jay
- Universität Potsdam, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
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Chergui M. Ultrafast photophysics and photochemistry of iron hexacyanides in solution: Infrared to X-ray spectroscopic studies. Coord Chem Rev 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2018.05.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Collet E, Cammarata M. Disentangling Ultrafast Electronic and Structural Dynamics with X-Ray Lasers. Chemistry 2018; 24:15696-15705. [DOI: 10.1002/chem.201802105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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- Eric Collet
- Univ Rennes; CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes)-UMR 6251; 35000 Rennes France
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- Univ Rennes; CNRS, IPR (Institut de Physique de Rennes)-UMR 6251; 35000 Rennes France
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Naim A, Bouhadja Y, Cortijo M, Duverger-Nédellec E, Flack HD, Freysz E, Guionneau P, Iazzolino A, Ould Hamouda A, Rosa P, Stefańczyk O, Valentín-Pérez Á, Zeggar M. Design and Study of Structural Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Chiral [Fe(phen)3]2+ Complexes. Inorg Chem 2018; 57:14501-14512. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b01089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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- Ahmad Naim
- ICMCB, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, UMR 5026, F-33600 Pessac, France
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Annaba, BP 12-23200 Sidi-Ammar, Algérie
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- ICMCB, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, UMR 5026, F-33600 Pessac, France
- CRPP, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, UMR 5031, F-33600 Pessac, France
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- Chimie Minérale, Analytique et Appliquée, Sciences II, Université de Genève, 30, Quai Ernest-Ansermet CH-1211 Geneva Switzerland
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- LOMA, UMR CNRS 5798, 351 Cours de la Libération, FR-33405 Talence Cedex, France
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- LOMA, UMR CNRS 5798, 351 Cours de la Libération, FR-33405 Talence Cedex, France
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- LOMA, UMR CNRS 5798, 351 Cours de la Libération, FR-33405 Talence Cedex, France
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- ICMCB, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, UMR 5026, F-33600 Pessac, France
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- ICMCB, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, UMR 5026, F-33600 Pessac, France
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- ICMCB, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, UMR 5026, F-33600 Pessac, France
- CRPP, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, UMR 5031, F-33600 Pessac, France
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- ICMCB, CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, UMR 5026, F-33600 Pessac, France
- Department of Chemistry, University of Annaba, BP 12-23200 Sidi-Ammar, Algérie
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Leshchev D, Harlang TCB, Fredin LA, Khakhulin D, Liu Y, Biasin E, Laursen MG, Newby GE, Haldrup K, Nielsen MM, Wärnmark K, Sundström V, Persson P, Kjær KS, Wulff M. Tracking the picosecond deactivation dynamics of a photoexcited iron carbene complex by time-resolved X-ray scattering. Chem Sci 2018; 9:405-414. [PMID: 29629111 PMCID: PMC5868308 DOI: 10.1039/c7sc02815f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2017] [Accepted: 10/30/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Recent years have seen the development of new iron-centered N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes for solar energy applications. Compared to typical ligand systems, the NHC ligands provide Fe complexes with longer-lived metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) states. This increased lifetime is ascribed to strong ligand field splitting provided by the NHC ligands that raises the energy levels of the metal centered (MC) states and therefore reduces the deactivation efficiency of MLCT states. Among currently known NHC systems, [Fe(btbip)2]2+ (btbip = 2,6-bis(3-tert-butyl-imidazol-1-ylidene)pyridine) is a unique complex as it exhibits a short-lived MC state with a lifetime on the scale of a few hundreds of picoseconds. Hence, this complex allows for a detailed investigation, using 100 ps X-ray pulses from a synchrotron, of strong ligand field effects on the intermediate MC state in an NHC complex. Here, we use time-resolved wide angle X-ray scattering (TRWAXS) aided by density functional theory (DFT) to investigate the molecular structure, energetics and lifetime of the high-energy MC state in the Fe-NHC complex [Fe(btbip)2]2+ after excitation to the MLCT manifold. We identify it as a 260 ps metal-centered quintet (5MC) state, and we refine the molecular structure of the excited-state complex verifying the DFT results. Using information about the hydrodynamic state of the solvent, we also determine, for the first time, the energy of the 5MC state as 0.75 ± 0.15 eV. Our results demonstrate that due to the increased ligand field strength caused by NHC ligands, upon transition from the ground state to the 5MC state, the metal to ligand bonds extend by unusually large values: by 0.29 Å in the axial and 0.21 Å in the equatorial direction. These results imply that the transition in the photochemical properties from typical Fe complexes to novel NHC compounds is manifested not only in the destabilization of the MC states, but also in structural distortion of these states.
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- Denis Leshchev
- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility , 71 Avenue des Martyrs , 38000 Grenoble , France .
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- Department of Chemical Physics , Lund University , P. O. Box 12 4 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
- Molecular Movies Group , Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , Lyngby , DK-2800 , Denmark
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- Theoretical Chemistry Division , Lund University , P. O. Box 124 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- Centre for Analysis and Synthesis , Department of Chemistry , Lund University , P. O. Box 12 4 , Lund 22100 , Sweden
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- Molecular Movies Group , Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , Lyngby , DK-2800 , Denmark
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- Molecular Movies Group , Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , Lyngby , DK-2800 , Denmark
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility , 71 Avenue des Martyrs , 38000 Grenoble , France .
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- Molecular Movies Group , Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , Lyngby , DK-2800 , Denmark
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- Molecular Movies Group , Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , Lyngby , DK-2800 , Denmark
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- Centre for Analysis and Synthesis , Department of Chemistry , Lund University , P. O. Box 12 4 , Lund 22100 , Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Physics , Lund University , P. O. Box 12 4 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- Theoretical Chemistry Division , Lund University , P. O. Box 124 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Physics , Lund University , P. O. Box 12 4 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
- Molecular Movies Group , Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , Lyngby , DK-2800 , Denmark
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility , 71 Avenue des Martyrs , 38000 Grenoble , France .
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Lawson Daku LM. Spin-state dependence of the structural and vibrational properties of solvated iron(ii) polypyridyl complexes from AIMD simulations: aqueous [Fe(bpy)3]Cl2, a case study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:6236-6253. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp07862e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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LS and HS IR spectra of aqueous [Fe(bpy)3]2+ and corresponding HS–LS difference IR spectrum as obtained from state-of-the-art ab initio molecular dynamics simulations applied to the determination of the structural and vibrational properties of the solvated complex.
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Liu C, Zhang J, Lawson Daku LM, Gosztola D, Canton SE, Zhang X. Probing the Impact of Solvation on Photoexcited Spin Crossover Complexes with High-Precision X-ray Transient Absorption Spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:17518-17524. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b09297] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- State
Key Laboratory of Hollow Fibre Membrane Materials and Processes, School
of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin 300387, China
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- Département
de Chimie Physique, Université de Genève, Quai E.
Ansermet 30, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland
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- ELI-ALPS, ELI-HU Non-Profit Ltd., Dugonics ter 13, Szeged 6720, Hungary
- Attosecond
Science Group, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY), Notkestrasse 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
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Bhattacherjee A, Pemmaraju CD, Schnorr K, Attar AR, Leone SR. Ultrafast Intersystem Crossing in Acetylacetone via Femtosecond X-ray Transient Absorption at the Carbon K-Edge. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:16576-16583. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b07532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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- Aditi Bhattacherjee
- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Chemical
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Theory
Institute for Materials and Energy Spectroscopies, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Chemical
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Chemical
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Chemical
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Department
of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Fondell M, Eckert S, Jay RM, Weniger C, Quevedo W, Niskanen J, Kennedy B, Sorgenfrei F, Schick D, Giangrisostomi E, Ovsyannikov R, Adamczyk K, Huse N, Wernet P, Mitzner R, Föhlisch A. Time-resolved soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy in transmission mode on liquids at MHz repetition rates. STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS (MELVILLE, N.Y.) 2017; 4:054902. [PMID: 28852689 PMCID: PMC5555770 DOI: 10.1063/1.4993755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2017] [Accepted: 08/07/2017] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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We present a setup combining a liquid flatjet sample delivery and a MHz laser system for time-resolved soft X-ray absorption measurements of liquid samples at the high brilliance undulator beamline UE52-SGM at Bessy II yielding unprecedented statistics in this spectral range. We demonstrate that the efficient detection of transient absorption changes in transmission mode enables the identification of photoexcited species in dilute samples. With iron(II)-trisbipyridine in aqueous solution as a benchmark system, we present absorption measurements at various edges in the soft X-ray regime. In combination with the wavelength tunability of the laser system, the set-up opens up opportunities to study the photochemistry of many systems at low concentrations, relevant to materials sciences, chemistry, and biology.
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- Mattis Fondell
- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Hamburg and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Hamburg and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute for Methods and Instrumentation for Synchrotron Radiation Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Albert-Einstein-Str. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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Chergui M, Collet E. Photoinduced Structural Dynamics of Molecular Systems Mapped by Time-Resolved X-ray Methods. Chem Rev 2017; 117:11025-11065. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Majed Chergui
- Laboratoire
de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide (LSU), ISIC, and Lausanne Centre for
Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Faculté des Sciences de Base, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland
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- Univ Rennes 1, CNRS, Institut de Physique de Rennes, UMR 6251, UBL, Rennes F-35042, France
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Santomauro FG, Grilj J, Mewes L, Nedelcu G, Yakunin S, Rossi T, Capano G, Al Haddad A, Budarz J, Kinschel D, Ferreira DS, Rossi G, Gutierrez Tovar M, Grolimund D, Samson V, Nachtegaal M, Smolentsev G, Kovalenko MV, Chergui M. Localized holes and delocalized electrons in photoexcited inorganic perovskites: Watching each atomic actor by picosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy. STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS (MELVILLE, N.Y.) 2017; 4:044002. [PMID: 28083541 PMCID: PMC5178717 DOI: 10.1063/1.4971999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2016] [Accepted: 11/11/2016] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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We report on an element-selective study of the fate of charge carriers in photoexcited inorganic CsPbBr3 and CsPb(ClBr)3 perovskite nanocrystals in toluene solutions using time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy with 80 ps time resolution. Probing the Br K-edge, the Pb L3-edge, and the Cs L2-edge, we find that holes in the valence band are localized at Br atoms, forming small polarons, while electrons appear as delocalized in the conduction band. No signature of either electronic or structural changes is observed at the Cs L2-edge. The results at the Br and Pb edges suggest the existence of a weakly localized exciton, while the absence of signatures at the Cs edge indicates that the Cs+ cation plays no role in the charge transport, at least beyond 80 ps. This first, time-resolved element-specific study of perovskites helps understand the rather modest charge carrier mobilities in these materials.
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- Fabio G Santomauro
- Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide, ISIC-FSB and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide, ISIC-FSB and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide, ISIC-FSB and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide, ISIC-FSB and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide, ISIC-FSB and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide, ISIC-FSB and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide, ISIC-FSB and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide, ISIC-FSB and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide, ISIC-FSB and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide, ISIC-FSB and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide, ISIC-FSB and Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Lemke HT, Kjær KS, Hartsock R, van Driel TB, Chollet M, Glownia JM, Song S, Zhu D, Pace E, Matar SF, Nielsen MM, Benfatto M, Gaffney KJ, Collet E, Cammarata M. Coherent structural trapping through wave packet dispersion during photoinduced spin state switching. Nat Commun 2017; 8:15342. [PMID: 28537270 PMCID: PMC5458100 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2016] [Accepted: 03/10/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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The description of ultrafast nonadiabatic chemical dynamics during molecular photo-transformations remains challenging because electronic and nuclear configurations impact each other and cannot be treated independently. Here we gain experimental insights, beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, into the light-induced spin-state trapping dynamics of the prototypical [Fe(bpy)3]2+ compound by time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy at sub-30-femtosecond resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio. The electronic decay from the initial optically excited electronic state towards the high spin state is distinguished from the structural trapping dynamics, which launches a coherent oscillating wave packet (265 fs period), clearly identified as molecular breathing. Throughout the structural trapping, the dispersion of the wave packet along the reaction coordinate reveals details of intramolecular vibronic coupling before a slower vibrational energy dissipation to the solution environment. These findings illustrate how modern time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy can provide key information to unravel dynamic details of photo-functional molecules.
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- Henrik T. Lemke
- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI 5232, Switzerland
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- PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- Molecular Movies, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby DK-2800, Denmark
- Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Box 124, Lund SE-22100, Sweden
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- Molecular Movies, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby DK-2800, Denmark
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati-INFN, P.O. Box 13, Frascati I-00044, Italy
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- ICMCB, CNRS UPR 9048, Univ. Bordeaux, Pessac F-33608, France
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- Molecular Movies, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby DK-2800, Denmark
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- Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati-INFN, P.O. Box 13, Frascati I-00044, Italy
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- SSRL and PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Univ. Rennes 1, CNRS, UBL, Institut de Physique de Rennes (IPR) - UMR 6251, F-35042 Rennes, France
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- Univ. Rennes 1, CNRS, UBL, Institut de Physique de Rennes (IPR) - UMR 6251, F-35042 Rennes, France
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Reinhard M, Auböck G, Besley NA, Clark IP, Greetham GM, Hanson-Heine MWD, Horvath R, Murphy TS, Penfold TJ, Towrie M, George MW, Chergui M. Photoaquation Mechanism of Hexacyanoferrate(II) Ions: Ultrafast 2D UV and Transient Visible and IR Spectroscopies. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:7335-7347. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b02769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Marco Reinhard
- Ecole polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratoire de spectroscopie ultrarapide, ISIC, and Lausanne Centre
for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), FSB, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ecole polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratoire de spectroscopie ultrarapide, ISIC, and Lausanne Centre
for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), FSB, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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- Central
Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell Science and Technology
Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, 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, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
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- School
of Chemistry, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1
7RU, United Kingdom
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- Central
Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell Science and Technology
Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxford, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- School
of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
- Department
of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, 199 Taikang East Road, Ningbo 315100, China
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- Ecole polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratoire de spectroscopie ultrarapide, ISIC, and Lausanne Centre
for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), FSB, Station 6, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Britz A, Assefa TA, Galler A, Gawelda W, Diez M, Zalden P, Khakhulin D, Fernandes B, Gessler P, Sotoudi Namin H, Beckmann A, Harder M, Yavaş H, Bressler C. A multi-MHz single-shot data acquisition scheme with high dynamic range: pump-probe X-ray experiments at synchrotrons. JOURNAL OF SYNCHROTRON RADIATION 2016; 23:1409-1423. [PMID: 27787247 DOI: 10.1107/s1600577516012625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2016] [Accepted: 08/04/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The technical implementation of a multi-MHz data acquisition scheme for laser-X-ray pump-probe experiments with pulse limited temporal resolution (100 ps) is presented. Such techniques are very attractive to benefit from the high-repetition rates of X-ray pulses delivered from advanced synchrotron radiation sources. Exploiting a synchronized 3.9 MHz laser excitation source, experiments in 60-bunch mode (7.8 MHz) at beamline P01 of the PETRA III storage ring are performed. Hereby molecular systems in liquid solutions are excited by the pulsed laser source and the total X-ray fluorescence yield (TFY) from the sample is recorded using silicon avalanche photodiode detectors (APDs). The subsequent digitizer card samples the APD signal traces in 0.5 ns steps with 12-bit resolution. These traces are then processed to deliver an integrated value for each recorded single X-ray pulse intensity and sorted into bins according to whether the laser excited the sample or not. For each subgroup the recorded single-shot values are averaged over ∼107 pulses to deliver a mean TFY value with its standard error for each data point, e.g. at a given X-ray probe energy. The sensitivity reaches down to the shot-noise limit, and signal-to-noise ratios approaching 1000 are achievable in only a few seconds collection time per data point. The dynamic range covers 100 photons pulse-1 and is only technically limited by the utilized APD.
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (PETRA III), Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (PETRA III), Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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Zhang W, Kjær KS, Alonso-Mori R, Bergmann U, Chollet M, Fredin LA, Hadt RG, Hartsock RW, Harlang T, Kroll T, Kubiček K, Lemke HT, Liang HW, Liu Y, Nielsen MM, Persson P, Robinson JS, Solomon EI, Sun Z, Sokaras D, van Driel TB, Weng TC, Zhu D, Wärnmark K, Sundström V, Gaffney KJ. Manipulating charge transfer excited state relaxation and spin crossover in iron coordination complexes with ligand substitution. Chem Sci 2016; 8:515-523. [PMID: 28451198 PMCID: PMC5341207 DOI: 10.1039/c6sc03070j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2016] [Accepted: 08/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Optical and X-ray free-electron laser measurements reveal ligand substitution in an Fe(ii)-centered complex extends its MLCT lifetime.
Developing light-harvesting and photocatalytic molecules made with iron could provide a cost effective, scalable, and environmentally benign path for solar energy conversion. To date these developments have been limited by the sub-picosecond metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) electronic excited state lifetime of iron based complexes due to spin crossover – the extremely fast intersystem crossing and internal conversion to high spin metal-centered excited states. We revitalize a 30 year old synthetic strategy for extending the MLCT excited state lifetimes of iron complexes by making mixed ligand iron complexes with four cyanide (CN–) ligands and one 2,2′-bipyridine (bpy) ligand. This enables MLCT excited state and metal-centered excited state energies to be manipulated with partial independence and provides a path to suppressing spin crossover. We have combined X-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL) Kβ hard X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy with femtosecond time-resolved UV-visible absorption spectroscopy to characterize the electronic excited state dynamics initiated by MLCT excitation of [Fe(CN)4(bpy)]2–. The two experimental techniques are highly complementary; the time-resolved UV-visible measurement probes allowed electronic transitions between valence states making it sensitive to ligand-centered electronic states such as MLCT states, whereas the Kβ fluorescence spectroscopy provides a sensitive measure of changes in the Fe spin state characteristic of metal-centered excited states. We conclude that the MLCT excited state of [Fe(CN)4(bpy)]2– decays with roughly a 20 ps lifetime without undergoing spin crossover, exceeding the MLCT excited state lifetime of [Fe(2,2′-bipyridine)3]2+ by more than two orders of magnitude.
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Affiliation(s)
- Wenkai Zhang
- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Stanford University , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA . ;
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- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Stanford University , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA . ; .,Department of Chemical Physics , Lund University , P.O. Box 12 4 , 22100 Lund , Sweden.,Centre for Molecular Movies , Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , DK-2800 , Lyngby , Denmark
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- LCLS , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA
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- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Stanford University , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA . ; .,LCLS , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA
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- LCLS , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA
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- Theoretical Chemistry Division , Lund University , P.O. Box 124 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry , Stanford University , Stanford , California 94305 , USA
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- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Stanford University , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA . ; .,Department of Chemistry , Stanford University , Stanford , California 94305 , USA
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- Department of Chemical Physics , Lund University , P.O. Box 12 4 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- LCLS , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA.,Department of Chemistry , Stanford University , Stanford , California 94305 , USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry , 37077 , Göttingen , Germany
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- LCLS , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA
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- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Stanford University , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA . ; .,LCLS , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA
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- Department of Chemical Physics , Lund University , P.O. Box 12 4 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- Centre for Molecular Movies , Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , DK-2800 , Lyngby , Denmark
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- Theoretical Chemistry Division , Lund University , P.O. Box 124 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- LCLS , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA
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- LCLS , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA.,Department of Chemistry , Stanford University , Stanford , California 94305 , USA
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- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Stanford University , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA . ;
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- SSRL , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA
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- Centre for Molecular Movies , Department of Physics , Technical University of Denmark , DK-2800 , Lyngby , Denmark
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- SSRL , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA
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- LCLS , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA
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- Centre for Analysis and Synthesis , Department of Chemistry , Lund University , P.O. Box 124 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- Department of Chemical Physics , Lund University , P.O. Box 12 4 , 22100 Lund , Sweden
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- PULSE Institute , SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory , Stanford University , Menlo Park , California 94025 , USA . ;
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Mukuta T, Tanaka S, Inagaki A, Koshihara SY, Onda K. Direct Observation of the Triplet Metal-Centered State in [Ru(bpy)3]2+Using Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy. ChemistrySelect 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.201600747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Tatsuhiko Mukuta
- Department of Chemistry; School of Science; Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama, Meguro-ku; Tokyo 152-8551 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry; School of Science; Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama, Meguro-ku; Tokyo 152-8551 Japan
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- Graduate School of Science and Engineering; Tokyo Metropolitan University; 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji Tokyo 192-0397 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry; School of Science; Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama, Meguro-ku; Tokyo 152-8551 Japan
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- Interactive Research Center of Science; Tokyo Institute of Technology; S1-8, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama Kanagawa 226-8502 Japan
- PRESTO; Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST); 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi Saitama 332-0012 Japan
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Stock P, Deck E, Hohnstein S, Korzekwa J, Meyer K, Heinemann FW, Breher F, Hörner G. Molecular Spin Crossover in Slow Motion: Light-Induced Spin-State Transitions in Trigonal Prismatic Iron(II) Complexes. Inorg Chem 2016; 55:5254-65. [PMID: 27159332 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b00238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
A straightforward access is provided to iron(II) complexes showing exceedingly slow spin-state interconversion by utilizing trigonal-prismatic directing ligands (L(n)) of the extended-tripod type. A detailed analysis of the interrelations between complex structure (X-ray diffraction, density functional theory) and electronic character (SQUID magnetometry, Mössbauer spectroscopy, UV/vis spectroscopy) of the iron(II) center in mononuclear complexes [FeL(n)] reveals spin crossover to occur along a coupled breathing/torsion reaction coordinate, shuttling the complex between the octahedral low-spin state and the trigonal-prismatic high-spin state along Bailar's trigonal twist pathway. We associate both the long spin-state lifetimes in the millisecond domain close to room temperature and the substantial barriers against thermal scrambling (Ea ≈ 33 kJ mol(-1), from Arrhenius analysis) with stereochemical constraints. In particular, the topology of the κ(6)N ligands controls the temporary and structural dynamics during spin crossover.
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- Philipp Stock
- Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin , Strasse des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) , Engesserstrasse 15, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) , Engesserstrasse 15, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department Chemie und Pharmazie, Anorganische Chemie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , Egerlandstraße 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department Chemie und Pharmazie, Anorganische Chemie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , Egerlandstraße 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department Chemie und Pharmazie, Anorganische Chemie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , Egerlandstraße 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) , Engesserstrasse 15, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin , Strasse des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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Göries D, Dicke B, Roedig P, Stübe N, Meyer J, Galler A, Gawelda W, Britz A, Geßler P, Sotoudi Namin H, Beckmann A, Schlie M, Warmer M, Naumova M, Bressler C, Rübhausen M, Weckert E, Meents A. Time-resolved pump and probe x-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy at beamline P11 at PETRA III. THE REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS 2016; 87:053116. [PMID: 27250401 DOI: 10.1063/1.4948596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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We report about the development and implementation of a new setup for time-resolved X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy at beamline P11 utilizing the outstanding source properties of the low-emittance PETRA III synchrotron storage ring in Hamburg. Using a high intensity micrometer-sized X-ray beam in combination with two positional feedback systems, measurements were performed on the transition metal complex fac-Tris[2-phenylpyridinato-C2,N]iridium(III) also referred to as fac-Ir(ppy)3. This compound is a representative of the phosphorescent iridium(III) complexes, which play an important role in organic light emitting diode (OLED) technology. The experiment could directly prove the anticipated photoinduced charge transfer reaction. Our results further reveal that the temporal resolution of the experiment is limited by the PETRA III X-ray bunch length of ∼103 ps full width at half maximum (FWHM).
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- D Göries
- DESY Photon Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- DESY Photon Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- DESY Photon Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- DESY Photon Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- European XFEL, Albert-Einstein Ring 19, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- European XFEL, Albert-Einstein Ring 19, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- European XFEL, Albert-Einstein Ring 19, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- European XFEL, Albert-Einstein Ring 19, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- European XFEL, Albert-Einstein Ring 19, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- European XFEL, Albert-Einstein Ring 19, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik, University of Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- DESY Photon Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- European XFEL, Albert-Einstein Ring 19, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- DESY Photon Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- DESY Photon Science, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Notkestraße 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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Liu Y, Gerber T, Qin C, Jin F, Knopp G. Visualizing competing intersystem crossing and internal conversion with a complementary measurement. J Chem Phys 2016; 144:084201. [PMID: 26931694 DOI: 10.1063/1.4942124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
A complementary measurement method based on a home-built double-sided velocity map imaging setup is introduced. This method can simultaneously obtain time-resolved photoelectron imaging and fragment ion imaging. It has been successfully applied to investigate the ultrafast dynamics of the second singlet electronically excited state (S2) in m-xylene. Time-resolved photoelectron and ion signals derived from the initial populated S2 state are tracked following two-photon absorption of a pump pulse. Time-of-flight mass spectra (TOFMS) show that there are dominant parent ions and one fragment ions with methyl loss during such a process. According to the measured photoelectron images and fragment ions images, transient kinetic energy distributions and angular distributions of the generated photoelectrons and fragments are obtained and analyzed. Compared to stand-alone photoelectron imaging, the obtained fragment ion imaging is powerful for further understanding the mechanisms especially when the dissociation occurs during the pump-probe ionization. Two competing channels intersystem crossing T3←S2 and internal conversion S1←S2 are attributed to the deactivation of the S2 state. A lifetime of ∼50 fs for the initially excited S2 state, of ∼276 fs for the secondary populated S1 state, and of 5.76 ps for the T3 state is inferred.
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- Yuzhu Liu
- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, People's Republic of China
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- Henan Normal University, Xinxiang 453007, People's Republic of China
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, People's Republic of China
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- Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen, Switzerland
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