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Heindel JP, LaCour RA, Head-Gordon T. The role of charge in microdroplet redox chemistry. Nat Commun 2024; 15:3670. [PMID: 38693110 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47879-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2023] [Accepted: 04/12/2024] [Indexed: 05/03/2024] Open
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In charged water microdroplets, which occur in nature or in the lab upon ultrasonication or in electrospray processes, the thermodynamics for reactive chemistry can be dramatically altered relative to the bulk phase. Here, we provide a theoretical basis for the observation of accelerated chemistry by simulating water droplets of increasing charge imbalance to create redox agents such as hydroxyl and hydrogen radicals and solvated electrons. We compute the hydration enthalpy of OH- and H+ that controls the electron transfer process, and the corresponding changes in vertical ionization energy and vertical electron affinity of the ions, to create OH• and H• reactive species. We find that at ~ 20 - 50% of the Rayleigh limit of droplet charge the hydration enthalpy of both OH- and H+ have decreased by >50 kcal/mol such that electron transfer becomes thermodynamically favorable, in correspondence with the more favorable vertical electron affinity of H+ and the lowered vertical ionization energy of OH-. We provide scaling arguments that show that the nanoscale calculations and conclusions extend to the experimental microdroplet length scale. The relevance of the droplet charge for chemical reactivity is illustrated for the formation of H2O2, and has clear implications for other redox reactions observed to occur with enhanced rates in microdroplets.
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- Joseph P Heindel
- Kenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Kenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Kenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry, Berkeley, CA, USA.
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
- Departments of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of CAlifornia, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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Lan J, Chergui M, Pasquarello A. Dynamics of the charge transfer to solvent process in aqueous iodide. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2544. [PMID: 38514610 PMCID: PMC11258362 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46772-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2023] [Accepted: 03/05/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024] Open
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Charge-transfer-to-solvent states in aqueous halides are ideal systems for studying the electron-transfer dynamics to the solvent involving a complex interplay between electronic excitation and solvent polarization. Despite extensive experimental investigations, a full picture of the charge-transfer-to-solvent dynamics has remained elusive. Here, we visualise the intricate interplay between the dynamics of the electron and the solvent polarization occurring in this process. Through the combined use of ab initio molecular dynamics and machine learning methods, we investigate the structure, dynamics and free energy as the excited electron evolves through the charge-transfer-to-solvent process, which we characterize as a sequence of states denoted charge-transfer-to-solvent, contact-pair, solvent-separated, and hydrated electron states, depending on the distance between the iodine and the excited electron. Our assignment of the charge-transfer-to-solvent states is supported by the good agreement between calculated and measured vertical binding energies. Our results reveal the charge transfer process in terms of the underlying atomic processes and mechanisms.
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- Jinggang Lan
- Chaire de Simulation à l'Echelle Atomique (CSEA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, NY, 10003, USA.
- Simons Center for Computational Physical Chemistry at New York University, New York, NY, 10003, USA.
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- Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), ISIC, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste, Area Science Park I - 34149, Trieste, Italy
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- Chaire de Simulation à l'Echelle Atomique (CSEA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Ogawara K, Inanami O, Takakura H, Saita K, Nakajima K, Kumar S, Ieda N, Kobayashi M, Taketsugu T, Ogawa M. Theoretical Design and Synthesis of Caged Compounds Using X-Ray-Triggered Azo Bond Cleavage. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2024; 11:e2306586. [PMID: 38225711 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202306586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Revised: 12/07/2023] [Indexed: 01/17/2024]
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Caged compounds are frequently used in life science research. However, the light used to activate them is commonly absorbed and scattered by biological materials, limiting their use to basic research in cells or small animals. In contrast, hard X-rays exhibit high bio-permeability due to the difficulty of interacting with biological molecules. With the main goal of developing X-ray activatable caged compounds, azo compounds are designed and synthesized with a positive charge and long π-conjugated system to increase the reaction efficiency with hydrated electrons. The azo bonds in the designed compounds are selectively cleaved by X-ray, and the fluorescent substance Diethyl Rhodamine is released. Based on the results of experiments and quantum chemical calculations, azo bond cleavage is assumed to occur via a two-step process: a two-electron reduction of the azo bond followed by N─N bond cleavage. Cellular experiments also demonstrate that the azo bonds can be cleaved intracellularly. Thus, caged compounds that can be activated by an azo bond cleavage reaction promoted by X-ray are successfully generated.
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- Koki Ogawara
- Laboratory of Bioanalysis and Molecular Imaging, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0812, Japan
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- Laboratory of Radiation Biology, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0818, Japan
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- Laboratory of Bioanalysis and Molecular Imaging, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0812, Japan
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- Quantum Chemistry Lab, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0810, Japan
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- Laboratory of Bioanalysis and Molecular Imaging, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0812, Japan
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- Quantum Chemistry Lab, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0810, Japan
- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 001-0021, Japan
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- Laboratory of Bioanalysis and Molecular Imaging, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0812, Japan
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- Quantum Chemistry Lab, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0810, Japan
- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 001-0021, Japan
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- Quantum Chemistry Lab, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0810, Japan
- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 001-0021, Japan
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- Laboratory of Bioanalysis and Molecular Imaging, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-0812, Japan
- Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (WPI-ICReDD), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 001-0021, Japan
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Jordan CJC, Coons MP, Herbert JM, Verlet JRR. Spectroscopy and dynamics of the hydrated electron at the water/air interface. Nat Commun 2024; 15:182. [PMID: 38167300 PMCID: PMC10762076 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44441-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2023] [Accepted: 12/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024] Open
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The hydrated electron, e-(aq), has attracted much attention as a central species in radiation chemistry. However, much less is known about e-(aq) at the water/air surface, despite its fundamental role in electron transfer processes at interfaces. Using time-resolved electronic sum-frequency generation spectroscopy, the electronic spectrum of e-(aq) at the water/air interface and its dynamics are measured here, following photo-oxidation of the phenoxide anion. The spectral maximum agrees with that for bulk e-(aq) and shows that the orbital density resides predominantly within the aqueous phase, in agreement with supporting calculations. In contrast, the chemistry of the interfacial hydrated electron differs from that in bulk water, with e-(aq) diffusing into the bulk and leaving the phenoxyl radical at the surface. Our work resolves long-standing questions about e-(aq) at the water/air interface and highlights its potential role in chemistry at the ubiquitous aqueous interface.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, Durham University, Durham, DH1 4LJ, UK.
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Neupane P, Bartels DM, Thompson WH. Empirically Optimized One-Electron Pseudopotential for the Hydrated Electron: A Proof-of-Concept Study. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:7361-7371. [PMID: 37556737 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c03540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/11/2023]
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Mixed quantum-classical molecular dynamics simulations have been important tools for studying the hydrated electron. They generally use a one-electron pseudopotential to describe the interactions of an electron with the water molecules. This approximation shows both the strength and weakness of the approach. On the one hand, it enables extensive statistical sampling and large system sizes that are not possible with more accurate ab initio molecular dynamics methods. On the other hand, there has (justifiably) been much debate about the ability of pseudopotentials to accurately and quantitatively describe the hydrated electron properties. These pseudopotentials have largely been derived by fitting them to ab initio calculations of an electron interacting with a single water molecule. In this paper, we present a proof-of-concept demonstration of an alternative approach in which the pseudopotential parameters are determined by optimizing them to reproduce key experimental properties. Specifically, we develop a new pseudopotential, using the existing TBOpt model as a starting point, which correctly describes the hydrated electron vertical detachment energy and radius of gyration. In addition to these properties, this empirically optimized model displays a significantly modified solvation structure, which improves, for example, the prediction of the partial molar volume.
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- Pauf Neupane
- Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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- Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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Hartweg S, Barnes J, Yoder BL, Garcia GA, Nahon L, Miliordos E, Signorell R. Solvated dielectrons from optical excitation: An effective source of low-energy electrons. Science 2023:eadh0184. [PMID: 37228229 DOI: 10.1126/science.adh0184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2023] [Accepted: 05/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Low-energy electrons dissolved in liquid ammonia or aqueous media are powerful reducing agents that promote challenging reduction reactions, but can also cause radiation damage to biological tissue. Knowledge of the underlying mechanistic processes remains incomplete, in particular with respect to the details and energetics of the electron transfer steps. Here, we show how ultraviolet (UV) photoexcitation of metal-ammonia clusters could be used to generate tunable low-energy electrons in situ. Specifically, we identified UV light-induced generation of spin-paired solvated dielectrons and their subsequent relaxation by an unconventional electron-transfer-mediated decay as an efficient low-energy electron source. The process is robust and straightforward to induce, with the prospect of improving our understanding of radiation damage and fostering mechanistic studies of solvated electron reduction reactions.
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- Sebastian Hartweg
- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Départementale 128, 91190 St Aubin, France
- Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Straße 3a, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Départementale 128, 91190 St Aubin, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Départementale 128, 91190 St Aubin, France
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Auburn University, 179 Chemistry Building, Auburn, AL, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Yamamoto YI, Suzuki T. Distortion Correction of Low-Energy Photoelectron Spectra of Liquids Using Spectroscopic Data for Solvated Electrons. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:2440-2452. [PMID: 36917090 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c08046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/16/2023]
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Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (TRPES) enables real-time observation of ultrafast electronic dynamics in solutions. When extreme ultraviolet (EUV) probe pulses are employed, they can ionize solutes from all electronic states involved in the dynamics. However, EUV pulses also produce a strong ionization signal from a solvent that is typically 6 orders of magnitude greater than the pump-probe photoelectron signal of solutes. Alternatively, UV probe pulses enable highly sensitive and selective observation of photoexcited solutes because typical solvents such as water are transparent to UV radiation. An obstacle in such UV-TRPES measurements is spectral distortion caused by electron scattering and a yet to be identified mechanism in liquids. We have previously proposed the spectral retrieval (SR) method as an a posteriori approach to removing the distortion and overcoming this difficulty in UV-TRPES; however, its accuracy has not yet been verified by comparison with EUV-TRPES results. In the present study, we perform EUV-TRPES for charge transfer reactions in water, methanol, and ethanol, and verify SR analysis of UV-TRPES. We also estimate a previously undetermined energy-dependent intensity factor and expand the basis sets for SR analysis. The refined SR method is employed for reanalyzing the UV-TRPES data for the formation and relaxation dynamics of solvated electrons in various systems. The electron binding energy distributions for solvated electrons in liquid water, methanol, and ethanol are confirmed to be Gaussian centered at 3.78, 3.39, and 3.25 eV, respectively, in agreement with Nishitani et al. [ Sci. Adv. 2019, 5(8), eaaw6896]. An effective energy gap between the conduction band and the vacuum level at the gas-liquid interface is estimated to be 0.2 eV for liquid water and 0.1 eV for methanol and ethanol.
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- Yo-Ichi Yamamoto
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Huang H, Xue L, Lu G, Cheng S, Bu Y. Hydrated electrons as nodes in porous clathrate hydrates. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:114504. [PMID: 36948798 DOI: 10.1063/5.0135335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/03/2023] Open
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We investigate the structures of hydrated electrons (e- aq) in one of water's solid phases, namely, clathrate hydrates (CHs). Using density functional theory (DFT) calculations, DFT-based ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD), and path-integral AIMD simulations with periodic boundary conditions, we find that the structure of the e- aq@node model is in good agreement with the experiment, suggesting that an e- aq could form a node in CHs. The node is a H2O defect in CHs that is supposed to be composed of four unsaturated hydrogen bonds. Since CHs are porous crystals that possess cavities that can accommodate small guest molecules, we expect that these guest molecules can be used to tailor the electronic structure of the e- aq@node, and it leads to experimentally observed optical absorption spectra of CHs. Our findings have a general interest and extend the knowledge of e- aq into porous aqueous systems.
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- Haibei Huang
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, People's Republic of China
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van der Linde C, Ončák M, Cunningham EM, Tang WK, Siu CK, Beyer MK. Surface or Internal Hydration - Does It Really Matter? JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY 2023; 34:337-354. [PMID: 36744598 PMCID: PMC9983018 DOI: 10.1021/jasms.2c00290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2022] [Revised: 01/26/2023] [Accepted: 01/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The precise location of an ion or electron, whether it is internally solvated or residing on the surface of a water cluster, remains an intriguing question. Subtle differences in the hydrogen bonding network may lead to a preference for one or the other. Here we discuss spectroscopic probes of the structure of gas-phase hydrated ions in combination with quantum chemistry, as well as H/D exchange as a means of structure elucidation. With the help of nanocalorimetry, we look for thermochemical signatures of surface vs internal solvation. Examples of strongly size-dependent reactivity are reviewed which illustrate the influence of surface vs internal solvation on unimolecular rearrangements of the cluster, as well as on the rate and product distribution of ion-molecule reactions.
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- Christian van der Linde
- Institut
für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut
für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut
für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute
of Research Management and Services (IPPP), Research and Innovation
Management Complex, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur50603, Malaysia
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- Department
of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR, PR China
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- Institut
für Ionenphysik und Angewandte Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, 6020Innsbruck, Austria
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Miura Y, Yamamoto YI, Karashima S, Orimo N, Hara A, Fukuoka K, Ishiyama T, Suzuki T. Formation of Long-Lived Dark States during Electronic Relaxation of Pyrimidine Nucleobases Studied Using Extreme Ultraviolet Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:3369-3381. [PMID: 36724068 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c09803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Ultrafast electronic relaxation of nucleobases from 1ππ* states to the ground state (S0) is considered essential for the photostability of DNA. However, transient absorption spectroscopy (TAS) has indicated that some nucleobases in aqueous solutions create long-lived 1nπ*/3ππ* dark states from the 1ππ* states with a high quantum yield of 0.4-0.5. We investigated electronic relaxation in pyrimidine nucleobases in both aqueous solutions and the gas phase using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. Femtosecond EUV probe pulses cause ionization from all electronic states involved in the relaxation process, providing a clear overview of the electronic dynamics. The 1nπ* quantum yields for aqueous cytidine and uracil (Ura) derivatives were found to be considerably lower (<0.07) than previous estimates reported by TAS. On the other hand, aqueous thymine (Thy) and thymidine exhibited a longer 1ππ* lifetime and a higher quantum yield (0.12-0.22) for the 1nπ* state. A similar trend was found for isolated Thy and Ura in the gas phase: the 1ππ* lifetimes are 39 and 17 fs and the quantum yield for 1nπ* are 1.0 and 0.45 for Thy and Ura, respectively. The result indicates that single methylation to the C5 position hinders the out-of-plane deformation that drives the system to the conical intersection region between 1ππ* and S0, providing a large impact on the photophysics/photochemistry of a pyrimidine nucleobase. The significant reduction of 1nπ* yield in aqueous solution is ascribed to the destabilization of the 1nπ* state induced by hydrogen bonding.
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- Yuta Miura
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, University of Toyama, Toyama930-8555, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto606-8502, Japan
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Yamamoto YI, Suzuki YI, Suzuki T. Charge Transfer Reactions from I - to Polar Protic Solvents Studied Using Ultrafast Extreme Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:1052-1058. [PMID: 36693229 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c03849] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Charge transfer reactions from I- to solvent water, methanol, and ethanol were studied using extreme ultraviolet time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (EUV-TRPES). This technique eliminates spectral broadening, previously seen in UV-TRPES, caused by electron inelastic scattering in liquids, and enables clear observation of the temporal evolution of the spectral shape. The peak position, width, and intensity of the electron binding energy distribution indicate electron detachment and subsequent solvation and thermalization processes. Geminate recombination between detached electrons and iodine atoms is discussed using a diffusion equation and a global fitting analysis based on a kinetics model.
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- Yo-Ichi Yamamoto
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto606-8502, Japan
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- School of Medical Technology, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, 1757 Kanazawa, Tobetsucho, Ishikari, Hokkaido061-0293, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto606-8502, Japan
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Wang H, Li J, Chen J, Bu Y, Cheng SB. Solvent field regulated superhalogen in pure and doped gold cluster anions. CHINESE CHEM LETT 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cclet.2023.108222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Winter B, Thürmer S, Wilkinson I. Absolute Electronic Energetics and Quantitative Work Functions of Liquids from Photoelectron Spectroscopy. Acc Chem Res 2023; 56:77-85. [PMID: 36599420 PMCID: PMC9850918 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.2c00548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Liquid-jet photoelectron spectroscopy (LJ-PES) enabled a breakthrough in the experimental study of the electronic structure of liquid water, aqueous solutions, and volatile liquids more generally. The novelty of this technique, dating back over 25 years, lies in stabilizing a continuous, micron-diameter LJ in a vacuum environment to enable PES studies. A key quantity in PES is the most probable energy associated with vertical promotion of an electron into vacuum: the vertical ionization energy, VIE, for neutrals and cations, or vertical detachment energy, VDE, for anions. These quantities can be used to identify species, their chemical states and bonding environments, and their structural properties in solution. The ability to accurately measure VIEs and VDEs is correspondingly crucial. An associated principal challenge is the determination of these quantities with respect to well-defined energy references. Only with recently developed methods are such measurements routinely and generally viable for liquids. Practically, these methods involve the application of condensed-matter concepts to the acquisition of photoelectron (PE) spectra from liquid samples, rather than solely relying on molecular-physics treatments that have been commonly implemented since the first LJ-PES experiments. This includes explicit consideration of the traversal of electrons to and through the liquid's surface, prior to free-electron detection. Our approach to measuring VIEs and VDEs with respect to the liquid vacuum level specifically involves detecting the lowest-energy electrons emitted from the sample, which have barely enough energy to surmount the surface potential and accumulate in the low-energy tail of the liquid-phase spectrum. By applying a sufficient bias potential to the liquid sample, this low-energy spectral tail can generally be exposed, with its sharp, low-energy cutoff revealing the genuine kinetic-energy-zero in a measured spectrum, independent of any perturbing intrinsic or extrinsic potentials in the experiment. Together with a precisely known ionizing photon energy, this feature enables the straightforward determination of VIEs or VDEs, with respect to the liquid-phase vacuum level, from any PE feature of interest. Furthermore, by additionally determining solution-phase VIEs and VDEs with respect to the common equilibrated energy level in condensed matter, the Fermi level─the generally implemented reference energy in solid-state PES─solution work functions, eΦ, and liquid-vacuum surface dipole effects can be quantified. With LJs, the Fermi level can only be properly accessed by controlling unwanted surface charging and all other extrinsic potentials, which lead to energy shifts of all PE features and preclude access to accurate electronic energetics. More specifically, conditions must be engineered to minimize all undesirable potentials, while maintaining the equilibrated, intrinsic (contact) potential difference between the sample and apparatus. The establishment of these liquid-phase, accurate energy-referencing protocols importantly enables VIE and VDE determinations from near-arbitrary solutions and the quantitative distinction between bulk electronic structure and interfacial effects. We will review and exemplify these protocols for liquid water and several exemplary aqueous solutions here, with a focus on the lowest-ionization- or lowest-detachment-energy PE peaks, which importantly relate to the oxidative stabilities of aqueous-phase species.
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- Bernd Winter
- Molecular
Physics Department, Fritz-Haber-Institut
der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-Ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan,
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- Institute
of Electronic Structure Dynamics, Helmholtz-Zentrum
Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1, 14109 Berlin, Germany,
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Heim ZN, Neumark DM. Nonadiabatic Dynamics Studied by Liquid-Jet Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy. Acc Chem Res 2022; 55:3652-3662. [PMID: 36480155 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.2c00609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The development of the liquid microjet technique by Faubel and co-workers has enabled the investigation of high vapor pressure liquids and solutions utilizing high-vacuum methods. One such method is photoelectron spectroscopy (PES), which allows one to probe the electronic properties of a sample through ionization in a state-specific manner. Liquid microjets consisting of pure solvents and solute-solvent systems have been studied with great success utilizing PES and, more recently, time-resolved PES (TRPES). Here, we discuss progress made over recent years in understanding the solvation and excited state dynamics of the solvated electron and nucleic acid constituents (NACs) using these methods, as well as the prospect for their future.The solvated electron is of particular interest in liquid microjet experiments as it represents the simplest solute system. Despite this simplicity, there were still many unresolved questions about its binding energy and excited state relaxation dynamics that are ideal problems for liquid microjet PES. In the work discussed in this Account, accurate binding energies were measured for the solvated electron in multiple high vapor pressure solvents. The advantages of liquid jet PES were further highlighted in the femtosecond excited state relaxation studies on the solvated electron in water where a 75 ± 20 fs lifetime attributable to internal conversion from the excited p-state to a hot ground state was measured, supporting a nonadiabatic relaxation mechanism.Nucleic acid constituents represent a class of important solutes with several unresolved questions that the liquid microjet PES method is uniquely suited to address. As TRPES is capable of tracking dynamics with state-specificity, it is ideal for instances where there are multiple excited states potentially involved in the dynamics. Time-resolved studies of NAC relaxation after excitation using ultraviolet light identified relaxation lifetimes from multiple excited states. The state-specific nature of the TRPES method allowed us to identify the lack of any signal attributable to the 1nπ* state in thymine derived NACs. The femtosecond time resolution of the technique also aided in identifying differences between the excited state lifetimes of thymidine and thymidine monophosphate. These have been interpreted, aided by molecular dynamics simulations, as an influence of conformational differences leading to a longer excited state lifetime in thymidine monophosphate.Finally, we discuss advances in tabletop light sources extending into the extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray regimes that allow expansion of liquid jet TRPES to full valence band and potentially core level studies of solutes and pure liquids in liquid microjets. As most solutes have ground state binding energies in the range of 10 eV, observation of both excited state decay and ground state recovery using ultraviolet pump-ultraviolet probe TRPES has been intractable. With high-harmonic generation light sources, it will be possible to not only observe complete relaxation pathways for valence level dynamics but to also track dynamics with element specificity by probing core levels of the solute of interest.
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- Zachary N Heim
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California94720, United States.,Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California94720, United States
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Knowledge of the electronic structure of an aqueous solution is a prerequisite to understanding its chemical and biological reactivity and its response to light. One of the most direct ways of determining electronic structure is to use photoelectron spectroscopy to measure electron binding energies. Initially, photoelectron spectroscopy was restricted to the gas or solid phases due to the requirement for high vacuum to minimize inelastic scattering of the emitted electrons. The introduction of liquid-jets and their combination with intense X-ray sources at synchrotrons in the late 1990s expanded the scope of photoelectron spectroscopy to include liquids. Liquid-jet photoelectron spectroscopy is now an active research field involving a growing number of research groups. A limitation of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of aqueous solutions is the requirement to use solutes with reasonably high concentrations in order to obtain photoelectron spectra with adequate signal-to-noise after subtracting the spectrum of water. This has excluded most studies of organic molecules, which tend to be only weakly soluble. A solution to this problem is to use resonance-enhanced photoelectron spectroscopy with ultraviolet (UV) light pulses (hν ≲ 6 eV). However, the development of UV liquid-jet photoelectron spectroscopy has been hampered by a lack of quantitative understanding of inelastic scattering of low kinetic energy electrons (≲5 eV) and the impact on spectral lineshapes and positions.In this Account, we describe the key steps involved in the measurement of UV photoelectron spectra of aqueous solutions: photoionization/detachment, electron transport of low kinetic energy electrons through the conduction band, transmission through the water-vacuum interface, and transport through the spectrometer. We also explain the steps we take to record accurate UV photoelectron spectra of liquids with excellent signal-to-noise. We then describe how we have combined Monte Carlo simulations of electron scattering and spectral inversion with molecular dynamics simulations of depth profiles of organic solutes in aqueous solution to develop an efficient and widely applicable method for retrieving true UV photoelectron spectra of aqueous solutions. The huge potential of our experimental and spectral retrieval methods is illustrated using three examples. The first is a measurement of the vertical detachment energy of the green fluorescent protein chromophore, a sparingly soluble organic anion whose electronic structure underpins its fluorescence and photooxidation properties. The second is a measurement of the vertical ionization energy of liquid water, which has been the subject of discussion since the first X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurement in 1997. The third is a UV photoelectron spectroscopy study of the vertical ionization energy of aqueous phenol which demonstrates the possibility of retrieving true photoelectron spectra from measurements with contributions from components with different concentration profiles.
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Low PJ, Chu W, Nie Z, Bin Mohd Yusof MS, Prezhdo OV, Loh ZH. Observation of a transient intermediate in the ultrafast relaxation dynamics of the excess electron in strong-field-ionized liquid water. Nat Commun 2022; 13:7300. [DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34981-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2022] [Accepted: 11/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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AbstractA unified picture of the electronic relaxation dynamics of ionized liquid water has remained elusive despite decades of study. Here, we employ sub-two-cycle visible to short-wave infrared pump-probe spectroscopy and ab initio nonadiabatic molecular dynamics simulations to reveal that the excess electron injected into the conduction band (CB) of ionized liquid water undergoes sequential relaxation to the hydrated electron s ground state via an intermediate state, identified as the elusive p excited state. The measured CB and p-electron lifetimes are 0.26 ± 0.02 ps and 62 ± 10 fs, respectively. Ab initio quantum dynamics yield similar lifetimes and furthermore reveal vibrational modes that participate in the different stages of electronic relaxation, with initial relaxation within the dense CB manifold coupled to hindered translational motions whereas subsequent p-to-s relaxation facilitated by librational and even intramolecular bending modes of water. Finally, energetic considerations suggest that a hitherto unobserved trap state resides ~0.3-eV below the CB edge of liquid water. Our results provide a detailed atomistic picture of the electronic relaxation dynamics of ionized liquid water with unprecedented time resolution.
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Heindel JP, Hao H, LaCour RA, Head-Gordon T. Spontaneous Formation of Hydrogen Peroxide in Water Microdroplets. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:10035-10041. [PMID: 36264238 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01721] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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There is accumulating evidence that many chemical reactions are accelerated by several orders of magnitude in micrometer-sized aqueous or organic liquid droplets compared to their corresponding bulk liquid phase. However, the molecular origin of the enhanced rates remains unclear as in the case of spontaneous appearance of 1 μM hydrogen peroxide in water microdroplets. In this Letter, we consider the range of ionization energies and whether interfacial electric fields of a microdroplet can feasibly overcome the high energy step from hydroxide ions (OH-) to hydroxyl radicals (OH•) in a primary H2O2 mechanism. We find that the vertical ionization energies (VIEs) of partially solvated OH- ions are greatly lowered relative to the average VIE in the bulk liquid, unlike the case of the Cl- anion which shows no reduction in the VIEs regardless of solvation environment. Overall reduced hydrogen-bonding and undercoordination of OH- are structural features that are more readily present at the air-water interface, where the energy scale for ionization can be matched by statistically probable electric field values.
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- Joseph P Heindel
- Kenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California94720, United States
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California94720, United States
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- Kenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California94720, United States
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- Kenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California94720, United States
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California94720, United States
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- Kenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California94720, United States
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California94720, United States
- Departments of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringUniversity of California, Berkeley, California94720, United States
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Li X, Jia X, Paz ASP, Cao Y, Glover WJ. Evidence for Water Antibonding Orbital Mixing in the Hydrated Electron from Its Oxygen 1s X-ray Absorption Spectrum. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:19668-19672. [PMID: 36251402 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c07572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The X-ray absorption spectrum (XAS) of the hydrated electron (e(aq)-) has been simulated using time-dependent density functional theory with a quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics description. A unique XAS peak at 533 eV is observed with an energy and intensity in quantitative agreement with recent time-resolved experiments, allowing its assignment as arising from water O1s transitions to the singly occupied molecular orbital (SOMO) in which the excess electron resides. The transitions acquire oscillator strength due to the SOMO comprising an admixture of a cavity-localized orbital and water 4a1 and 2b2 antibonding orbitals. The mixing of antibonding orbitals has implications for the strength of couplings between e(aq)- and intramolecular modes of water.
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- Xingpin Li
- NYU Shanghai, 1555 Century Avenue, Shanghai, 200122, China.,NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, 3663 Zhongshang Road, Shanghai, 200062, China.,Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York10003, United States
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- NYU Shanghai, 1555 Century Avenue, Shanghai, 200122, China.,NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, 3663 Zhongshang Road, Shanghai, 200062, China
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- NYU Shanghai, 1555 Century Avenue, Shanghai, 200122, China.,NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, 3663 Zhongshang Road, Shanghai, 200062, China.,Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York10003, United States
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- NYU Shanghai, 1555 Century Avenue, Shanghai, 200122, China.,NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, 3663 Zhongshang Road, Shanghai, 200062, China.,Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York10003, United States
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- NYU Shanghai, 1555 Century Avenue, Shanghai, 200122, China.,NYU-ECNU Center for Computational Chemistry at NYU Shanghai, 3663 Zhongshang Road, Shanghai, 200062, China.,Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York10003, United States
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Neupane P, Katiyar A, Bartels DM, Thompson WH. Investigation of the Failure of Marcus Theory for Hydrated Electron Reactions. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:8971-8977. [PMID: 36136966 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c02168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Reactions of the hydrated electron with a wide variety of substrates have been found to exhibit unusually similar activation energies in a manner incompatible with Marcus electron transfer theory. Given the fundamental linear response assumption of Marcus theory, one possible explanation for this apparent failure is that the underlying free energy surfaces governing the reactions are not harmonic; i.e., hydrated electron structural fluctuations exhibit non-Gaussian behavior. In this work, we test this hypothesis by using simulations to calculate the hydrated electron vertical detachment energy distribution. We consider both cavity and noncavity models for the hydrated electron, between which the actual hydrated electron behavior is expected to lie. Our results identify a possible origin for non-Gaussian behavior of the hydrated electron but show that it is not of sufficient magnitude to explain the failure of Marcus theory to describe its reactions. Thus, other explanations must be sought.
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- Pauf Neupane
- Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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- Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory & Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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Takakura H, Matsuhiro S, Inanami O, Kobayashi M, Saita K, Yamashita M, Nakajima K, Suzuki M, Miyamoto N, Taketsugu T, Ogawa M. Ligand release from silicon phthalocyanine dyes triggered by X-ray irradiation. Org Biomol Chem 2022; 20:7270-7277. [PMID: 35972402 DOI: 10.1039/d2ob00957a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Ligand release from silicon phthalocyanine (SiPc) dyes triggered by near-infrared (NIR) light is a key photochemical reaction involving caged compounds based on SiPc. Although NIR light is relatively permeable compared with visible light, this light can be attenuated by tissue absorption and scattering; therefore, using light to induce photochemical reactions deep inside the body is difficult. Herein, because X-rays are highly permeable and can produce radicals through the radiolysis of water, we investigated whether the axial ligands of SiPcs can be cleaved using X-ray irradiation. SiPcs with different axial ligands (alkoxy, siloxy, oxycarbonyl, and phenoxy groups) were irradiated with X-rays under hypoxic conditions. We found that the axial ligands were cleaved via reactions with hydrated electrons (e-aq), not OH radicals, generated from water in response to X-ray irradiation, and SiPc with alkoxy groups exhibited the highest cleavage efficiency. A quantitative investigation revealed that X-ray-induced axial ligand cleavage proceeds via a radical chain reaction. The reaction is expected to be applicable to the molecular design of X-ray-activatable functional molecules in the future.
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- Hideo Takakura
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan.,WPI-ICReDD, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
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- Division of Quantum Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan.,WPI-ICReDD, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 001-0021, Japan
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- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan.
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Scholz M, Fortune WG, Tau O, Fielding HH. Accurate Vertical Ionization Energy of Water and Retrieval of True Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectra of Aqueous Solutions. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:6889-6895. [PMID: 35862937 PMCID: PMC9358712 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 07/14/2022] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Ultraviolet (UV) photoelectron spectroscopy provides a direct way of measuring valence electronic structure; however, its application to aqueous solutions has been hampered by a lack of quantitative understanding of how inelastic scattering of low-energy (<5 eV) electrons in liquid water distorts the measured electron kinetic energy distributions. Here, we present an efficient and widely applicable method for retrieving true UV photoelectron spectra of aqueous solutions. Our method combines Monte Carlo simulations of electron scattering and spectral inversion, with molecular dynamics simulations of depth profiles of organic solutes in aqueous solution. Its application is demonstrated for both liquid water, and aqueous solutions of phenol and phenolate, which are ubiquitous biologically relevant structural motifs.
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Salminen K, Fang JH, Wester N, Etula J, Eskola J, Kulmala S, Sun JJ. Electrochemical generation of hot electrons in fully aqueous solutions at tetrahedral amorphous carbon thin film electrodes and electrochemiluminescence immunoassay of serum amyloid A. ELECTROANAL 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/elan.202200227] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Park SJ, Schwartz BJ. Understanding the Temperature Dependence and Finite Size Effects in Ab Initio MD Simulations of the Hydrated Electron. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:4973-4982. [PMID: 35834750 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The hydrated electron is of interest to both theorists and experimentalists as a paradigm solution-phase quantum system. Although the bulk of the theoretical work studying the hydrated electron is based on mixed quantum/classical (MQC) methods, recent advances in computer power have allowed several attempts to study this object using ab initio methods. The difficulty with employing ab initio methods for this system is that even with relatively inexpensive quantum chemistry methods such as density functional theory (DFT), such calculations are still limited to at most a few tens of water molecules and only a few picoseconds duration, leaving open the question as to whether the calculations are converged with respect to either system size or dynamical fluctuations. Moreover, the ab initio simulations of the hydrated electron that have been published to date have provided only limited analysis. Most works calculate the electron's vertical detachment energy, which can be compared to experiment, and occasionally the electronic absorption spectrum is also computed. Structural features, such as pair distribution functions, are rare in the literature, with the majority of the structural analysis being simple statements that the electron resides in a cavity, which are often based only on a small number of simulation snapshots. Importantly, there has been no ab initio work examining the temperature-dependent behavior of the hydrated electron, which has not been satisfactorily explained by MQC simulations. In this work, we attempt to remedy this situation by running DFT-based ab initio simulations of the hydrated electron as a function of both box size and temperature. We show that the calculated properties of the hydrated electron are not converged even with simulation sizes up to 128 water molecules and durations of several tens of picoseconds. The simulations show significant changes in the water coordination and solvation structure with box size. Our temperature-dependent simulations predict a red-shift of the absorption spectrum (computed using TD-DFT with an optimally tuned range-separated hybrid functional) with increasing temperature, but the magnitude of the predicted red-shift is larger than that observed experimentally, and the absolute position of the calculated spectra are off by over half an eV. The spectral red-shift at high temperatures is accompanied by both a partial loss of structure of the electron's central cavity and an increased radius of gyration that pushes electron density onto and beyond the first solvation shell. Overall, although ab initio simulations can provide some insights into the temperature-dependent behavior of the hydrated electron, the simulation sizes and level of quantum chemistry theory that are currently accessible are inadequate for correctly describing the experimental properties of this fascinating object.
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- Sanghyun J Park
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California,Los Angeles Los Angeles California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California,Los Angeles Los Angeles California 90095-1569, United States
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Signorell R, Winter B. Photoionization of the aqueous phase: clusters, droplets and liquid jets. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:13438-13460. [PMID: 35510623 PMCID: PMC9176186 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp00164k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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This perspective article reviews specific challenges associated with photoemission spectroscopy of bulk liquid water, aqueous solutions, water droplets and water clusters. The main focus lies on retrieving accurate energetics and photoelectron angular information from measured photoemission spectra, and on the question how these quantities differ in different aqueous environments. Measured photoelectron band shapes, vertical binding energies (ionization energies), and photoelectron angular distributions are influenced by various phenomena. We discuss the influences of multiple energy-dependent electron scattering in aqueous environments, and we discuss different energy referencing methods, including the application of a bias voltage to access absolute energetics of solvent and solute. Recommendations how to account for or minimize the influence of electron scattering are provided. The example of the hydrated electron in different aqueous environments illustrates how one can account for electron scattering, while reliable methods addressing parasitic potentials and proper energy referencing are demonstrated for ionization from the outermost valence orbital of neat liquid water. This perspective article reviews specific challenges associated with photoemission spectroscopy of bulk liquid water, aqueous solutions, water droplets and water clusters.![]()
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- Ruth Signorell
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Molecular Physics Department, Fritz-Haber-Institute der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14196 Berlin, Germany.
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Ban L, Tang H, Yoder BL, Signorell R. Time-dependent photoemission from droplets: influence of size and charge on the photophysics near the surface. Faraday Discuss 2022; 236:461-484. [PMID: 35507329 PMCID: PMC9408814 DOI: 10.1039/d1fd00108f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Photoemission from submicrometer droplets containing a mixture of dioctyl phthalate and dioctyl sebacate was investigated by femtosecond and nanosecond photoionization. Photoelectron spectra recorded after ionization with single 4.7 eV femtosecond or nanosecond laser pulses showed marked differences between the two cases. These differences were attributed to ionization of long-lived states which only occurred within the duration of the nanosecond pulse. The tentative assignment of the long-lived states to dioctyl phthalate triplet states is discussed. A nanosecond–femtosecond pump–probe scheme using 4.7 eV (pump) and 3.1 eV (probe) pulses was used to investigate the decay dynamics of these long-lived states. The dynamics showed an accelerated decay rate at higher dioctyl phthalate concentrations. Furthermore, the dependence of the decay dynamics on droplet size and charge was investigated. The decay of the long-lived states was found to be faster in smaller droplets as well as in neutral droplets compared with both positively and negatively charged droplets. Possible mechanisms to explain these observations and the dominance of contributions from the droplets surface are discussed. Time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy is used to study the photophysics of droplets containing dioctyl phthalate. Long-lived excited states survive longer at lower phthalate concentrations, and in larger or electrically charged droplets.![]()
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- Loren Ban
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog Weg 2, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog Weg 2, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog Weg 2, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog Weg 2, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
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Woerner M, Fingerhut BP, Elsaesser T. Field-Induced Electron Generation in Water: Solvation Dynamics and Many-Body Interactions. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:2621-2634. [PMID: 35380042 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c01102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The solvated electron represents an elementary quantum system in a liquid environment. Electrons solvated in water have raised strong interest because of their prototypical properties, their role in radiation chemistry, and their relevance for charge separation and transport. Nonequilibrium dynamics of photogenerated electrons in water occur on ultrafast time scales and include charge transfer, localization, and energy dissipation processes. We present new insight into the role of fluctuating electric fields of the liquid for generating electrons in the presence of an external terahertz field and address polaronic many-body properties of solvated electrons. This Perspective combines a review of recent results from experiment and theory with a discussion of basic electric interactions of electrons in water.
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- Michael Woerner
- Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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Gadeyne T, Zhang P, Schild A, Wörner HJ. Low-energy electron distributions from the photoionization of liquid water: a sensitive test of electron mean free paths. Chem Sci 2022; 13:1675-1692. [PMID: 35282614 PMCID: PMC8826766 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc06741a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2021] [Accepted: 01/06/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The availability of accurate mean free paths for slow electrons (<50 eV) in water is central to the understanding of many electron-driven processes in aqueous solutions, but their determination poses major challenges to experiment and theory alike. Here, we describe a joint experimental and theoretical study demonstrating a novel approach for testing, and, in the future, refining such mean free paths. We report the development of Monte-Carlo electron-trajectory simulations including elastic and inelastic electron scattering, as well as energy loss and secondary-electron production to predict complete photoelectron spectra of liquid water. These simulations are compared to a new set of photoelectron spectra of a liquid-water microjet recorded over a broad range of photon energies in the extreme ultraviolet (20-57 eV). Several previously published sets of scattering parameters are investigated, providing direct and intuitive insights on how they influence the shape of the low-energy electron spectra. A pronounced sensitivity to the escape barrier is also demonstrated. These simulations considerably advance our understanding of the origin of the prominent low-energy electron distributions in photoelectron spectra of liquid water and clarify the influence of scattering parameters and the escape barrier on their shape. They moreover describe the reshaping and displacement of low-energy photoelectron bands caused by vibrationally inelastic scattering. Our work provides a quantitative basis for the interpretation of the complete photoelectron spectra of liquids and opens the path to fully predictive simulations of low-energy scattering in liquid water.
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- Titouan Gadeyne
- Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 8093 Zürich Switzerland
- Département de Chimie, École Normale Supérieure, PSL University 75005 Paris France
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- Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 8093 Zürich Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 8093 Zürich Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 8093 Zürich Switzerland
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Lan J, Yamamoto YI, Suzuki T, Rybkin VV. Shallow and deep trap states of solvated electrons in methanol and their formation, electronic excitation, and relaxation dynamics. Chem Sci 2022; 13:3837-3844. [PMID: 35432888 PMCID: PMC8966712 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc06666h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 02/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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We present condensed-phase first-principles molecular dynamics simulations to elucidate the presence of different electron trapping sites in liquid methanol and their roles in the formation, electronic transitions, and relaxation of solvated electrons (emet−) in methanol. Excess electrons injected into liquid methanol are most likely trapped by methyl groups, but rapidly diffuse to more stable trapping sites with dangling OH bonds. After localization at the sites with one free OH bond (1OH trapping sites), reorientation of other methanol molecules increases the OH coordination number and the trap depth, and ultimately four OH bonds become coordinated with the excess electrons under thermal conditions. The simulation identified four distinct trapping states with different OH coordination numbers. The simulation results also revealed that electronic transitions of emet− are primarily due to charge transfer between electron trapping sites (cavities) formed by OH and methyl groups, and that these transitions differ from hydrogenic electronic transitions involving aqueous solvated electrons (eaq−). Such charge transfer also explains the alkyl-chain-length dependence of the photoabsorption peak wavelength and the excited-state lifetime of solvated electrons in primary alcohols. Condensed-phase first-principles molecular dynamics simulations elucidate the presence of different electron trapping sites in liquid methanol and their roles in the formation, electronic transitions, and relaxation of solvated electrons.![]()
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- Jinggang Lan
- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
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Shen Z, Peng S, Glover WJ. Flexible boundary layer using exchange for embedding theories. II. QM/MM dynamics of the hydrated electron. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:224113. [PMID: 34911320 DOI: 10.1063/5.0067861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The FlexiBLE embedding method introduced in Paper I [Z. Shen and W. J. Glover, J. Chem. Phys. 155, 224112 (2021)] is applied to explore the structure and dynamics of the aqueous solvated electron at an all-electron density functional theory Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics level. Compared to a one-electron mixed quantum/classical description, we find the dynamics of the many-electron model of the hydrated electron exhibits enhanced coupling to water OH stretch modes. Natural bond orbital analysis reveals this coupling is due to significant population of water OH σ* orbitals, reaching 20%. Based on this, we develop a minimal frontier orbital picture of the hydrated electron involving a cavity orbital and important coupling to 4-5 coordinating OH σ* orbitals. Implications for the interpretation of the spectroscopy of this interesting species are discussed.
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- Zhuofan Shen
- NYU Shanghai, 1555 Century Ave., Shanghai 200122, China
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- NYU Shanghai, 1555 Century Ave., Shanghai 200122, China
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Majer K, Ma L, von Issendorff B. Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Large Water Cluster Anions. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:8426-8433. [PMID: 34533952 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c06761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Photoelectron spectra of large size selected water cluster anions (H2O)n- (n = 100-1100) have been measured at a low cluster temperature (80 K). An extensive peak analysis has been conducted in order to determine average and isomer-resolved vertical detachment energies (VDE) of the hydrated electron. This allows us, in combination with the reevaluated data of the previously reported results on small- and medium-sized water cluster anions ( J. Chem. Phys. 2009, 131, 144303), to draw a comprehensive picture of the size-dependent development of the VDEs of water clusters. This allows for an improved extrapolation of the cluster VDEs to the bulk, which yields a value of 3.60 ± 0.03 eV. The general size dependence of the VDEs is in very good agreement with a standard dielectric model.
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- Kiran Majer
- Physics Institute, University of Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Straße 3, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.,Freiburg Material Research Center, Stefan-Meier-Straße 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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- Physics Institute, University of Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Straße 3, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.,Tianjin International Center for Nanoparticles and Nanosystems, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
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- Physics Institute, University of Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Straße 3, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.,Freiburg Material Research Center, Stefan-Meier-Straße 21, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
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Paul SK, Herbert JM. Probing Interfacial Effects on Ionization Energies: The Surprising Banality of Anion-Water Hydrogen Bonding at the Air/Water Interface. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:10189-10202. [PMID: 34184532 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c03131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Liquid microjet photoelectron spectroscopy is an increasingly common technique to measure vertical ionization energies (VIEs) of aqueous solutes, but the interpretation of these experiments is subject to questions regarding sensitivity to bulk versus interfacial solvation environments. We have computed aqueous-phase VIEs for a set of inorganic anions, using a combination of molecular dynamics simulations and electronic structure calculations, with results that are in excellent agreement with experiment regardless of whether the simulation data are restricted to ions at the air/water interface or to those in bulk aqueous solution. Although the computed VIEs are sensitive to ion-water hydrogen bonding, we find that the short-range solvation structure is sufficiently similar in both environments that it proves impossible to discriminate between the two on the basis of the VIE, a conclusion that has important implications for the interpretation of liquid-phase photoelectron spectroscopy. More generally, analysis of the simulation data suggests that the surface activity of soft anions is largely a second or third solvation shell effect, arising from disruption of water-water hydrogen bonds and not from significant changes in first-shell anion-water hydrogen bonding.
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- Suranjan K Paul
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States
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de Almeida JM, Nguyen NL, Colonna N, Chen W, Rodrigues Miranda C, Pasquarello A, Marzari N. Electronic Structure of Water from Koopmans-Compliant Functionals. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 17:3923-3930. [PMID: 34137253 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Obtaining a precise theoretical description of the spectral properties of liquid water poses challenges for both molecular dynamics (MD) and electronic structure methods. The lower computational cost of the Koopmans-compliant functionals with respect to Green's function methods allows the simulations of many MD trajectories, with a description close to the state-of-art quasi-particle self-consistent GW plus vertex corrections method (QSGW + fxc). Thus, we explore water spectral properties when different MD approaches are used, ranging from classical MD to first-principles MD, and including nuclear quantum effects. We have observed that different MD approaches lead to up to 1 eV change in the average band gap; thus, we focused on the band gap dependence with the geometrical properties of a system to explain such spread. We have evaluated the changes in the band gap due to variations in the intramolecular O-H bond distance and HOH angle, as well as the intermolecular hydrogen bond O···O distance and the OHO angles. We have observed that the dominant contribution comes from the O-H bond length; the O···O distance plays a secondary role, and the other geometrical properties do not significantly influence the gap. Furthermore, we analyze the electronic density of states (DOS), where the KIPZ functional shows good agreement with the DOS obtained with state-of-art approaches employing quasi-particle self-consistent GW plus vertex corrections. The O-H bond length also significantly influences the DOS. When nuclear quantum effects are considered, broadening of the peaks driven by the broader distribution of the O-H bond lengths is observed, leading to a closer agreement with the experimental photoemission spectra.
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- James Moraes de Almeida
- Universidade Federal do ABC, Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas, Santo André, 09210-580 SP, Brazil.,Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS) and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS) and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH-5232 Villigen-PSI, Switzerland.,National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanoscience, Université Catholique de Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- Chaire de Simulation à l'Echelle Atomique (CSEA), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS) and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Cluster-size-resolved
ultrafast dynamics of the solvated electron
in neutral water clusters with n = 3 to ∼200
molecules are studied with pump–probe time-of-flight mass spectrometry
after below band gap excitation. For the smallest clusters, no longer-lived
(>100–200 fs) hydrated electrons were detected, indicating
a minimum size of n ∼ 14 for being able to
sustain hydrated electrons. Larger clusters show a systematic increase
of the number of hydrated electrons per molecule on the femtosecond
to picosecond time scale. We propose that with increasing cluster
size the underlying dynamics is governed by more effective electron
formation processes combined with less effective electron loss processes,
such as ultrafast hydrogen ejection and recombination. It appears
unlikely that any size dependence of the solvent relaxation dynamics
would be reflected in the observed time-resolved ion yields.
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- Loren Ban
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Hartweg S, Garcia GA, Nahon L. Photoelectron Spectroscopy of the Water Dimer Reveals Unpredicted Vibrational Structure. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:4882-4887. [PMID: 34028282 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c03201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hydrogen bonds and proton transfer reactions can be considered as being at the very heart of aqueous chemistry and of utmost importance for many processes of biological relevance. Nevertheless, these processes are not yet well understood, even in seemingly simple model systems like small water clusters. We present a study of the photoelectron spectrum of the water dimer, revealing previously unresolved vibrational structure with 10-30 meV (80-242 cm-1) typical splitting, in disagreement with a previous theoretical photoionization study predicting an apparent main vibrational progression with an ∼130 meV spacing [Kamarchik et al.; J. Chem. Phys. 2010, 132, 194311]. The observed vibrational structure and its deviation from the theoretical prediction is discussed in terms of known difficulties with calculations of strongly coupled anharmonic systems involving large amplitude motions. Potential contributions of the nonzero vibrational energy of the neutral water dimer at a finite experimental internal temperature are addressed. The internal temperature is estimated from the breakdown diagram associated with the dissociative ionization of the water dimer to be around to 130 K. This analysis also provides two additional, independently measured values for the 0 K appearance energy of the hydronium ion (H3O+) from dissociative ionization of the water dimer.
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- Sebastian Hartweg
- Synchrotron SOLEIL, l'Orme des Merisiers, Saint Aubin BP 48, 91192 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, l'Orme des Merisiers, Saint Aubin BP 48, 91192 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, l'Orme des Merisiers, Saint Aubin BP 48, 91192 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
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Gozem S, Krylov AI. The
ezSpectra
suite: An easy‐to‐use toolkit for spectroscopy modeling. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1546] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Samer Gozem
- Department of Chemistry Georgia State University Atlanta Georgia USA
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- Department of Chemistry University of Southern California Los Angeles California USA
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Bahry T, Denisov SA, Moisy P, Ma J, Mostafavi M. Real-Time Observation of Solvation Dynamics of Electron in Actinide Extraction Binary Solutions of Water and n-Tributyl Phosphate. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:3843-3849. [PMID: 33650867 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c10831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
The excess electron in solution is a highly reactive radical involved in various radiation-induced reactions. Its solvation state critically determines the subsequent pathway and rate of transfer. For instance, water plays a dominating role in the electron-induced dealkylation of n-tributyl phosphate in actinide extraction processing. However, the underlying electron solvation processes in such systems are lacking. Herein, we directly observed the solvation dynamics of electrons in H-bonded water and n-tributyl phosphate (TBP) binary solutions with a mole fraction of water (Xw) varying from 0.05 to 0.51 under ambient conditions. Following the evolution of the absorption spectrum of trapped electrons (not fully solvated) with picosecond resolution, we show that electrons statistically distributed would undergo preferential solvation within water molecules extracted in TBP. We determine the time scale of excess electron full solvation from the deconvoluted transient absorption-kinetical data. The process of solvent reorganization accelerates by increasing the water molar fraction, and the rate of this process is 2 orders of magnitude slower compared to bulk water. We assigned the solvation process to hydrogen network reorientation induced by a negative charge of the excess electron that strongly depends on the local water environment. Our findings suggest that water significantly stabilizes the electron in a deeper potential than the pure TBP case. In its new state, the electron is likely to inhibit the dealkylation of extractants in actinide separation.
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- Teseer Bahry
- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, P. R. China.,Institut de Chimie Physique, UMR 8000 CNRS, Bât. 349, Université Paris-Saclay 91405, Orsay, Cedex France
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- Institut de Chimie Physique, UMR 8000 CNRS, Bât. 349, Université Paris-Saclay 91405, Orsay, Cedex France
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- CEA, DES/ISEC/DMRC, Univ. Montpellier, 34090 Marcoule, France
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- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, P. R. China
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- Institut de Chimie Physique, UMR 8000 CNRS, Bât. 349, Université Paris-Saclay 91405, Orsay, Cedex France
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Perry C, Jordan I, Zhang P, von Conta A, Nunes FB, Wörner HJ. Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Liquid Water with Tunable Extreme-Ultraviolet Radiation: Effects of Electron Scattering. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:2990-2996. [PMID: 33733779 PMCID: PMC8006141 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c03424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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We report the first systematic photoelectron measurements of the three outer-valence bands of liquid water as a function of the ionizing photon energy in the near-threshold region. We use extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) radiation tunable between ∼17.1 and 35.6 eV, obtained through monochromatization of a high-harmonic source. We show that the absolute values of the apparent vertical ionization energies and their respective peak widths show a decreasing trend of their magnitudes with increasing photon energy close to the ionization threshold. We find that the observed effects do not only depend on the electron kinetic energy but are also different for the various outer-valence bands. These observations are consistent with, but not fully explained by, the effects of inelastic electron scattering.
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Herbert JM. Dielectric continuum methods for quantum chemistry. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- John M. Herbert
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio USA
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Malerz S, Trinter F, Hergenhahn U, Ghrist A, Ali H, Nicolas C, Saak CM, Richter C, Hartweg S, Nahon L, Lee C, Goy C, Neumark DM, Meijer G, Wilkinson I, Winter B, Thürmer S. Low-energy constraints on photoelectron spectra measured from liquid water and aqueous solutions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:8246-8260. [PMID: 33710216 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp00430a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We report on the effects of electron collision and indirect ionization processes, occurring at photoexcitation and electron kinetic energies well below 30 eV, on the photoemission spectra of liquid water. We show that the nascent photoelectron spectrum and, hence, the inferred electron binding energy can only be accurately determined if electron energies are large enough that cross sections for quasi-elastic scattering processes, such as vibrational excitation, are negligible. Otherwise, quasi-elastic scattering leads to strong, down-to-few-meV kinetic energy scattering losses from the direct photoelectron features, which manifest in severely distorted intrinsic photoelectron peak shapes. The associated cross-over point from predominant (known) electronically inelastic to quasi-elastic scattering seems to arise at surprisingly large electron kinetic energies, of approximately 10-14 eV. Concomitantly, we present evidence for the onset of indirect, autoionization phenomena (occurring via superexcited states) within a few eV of the primary and secondary ionization thresholds. These processes are inferred to compete with the direct ionization channels and primarily produce low-energy photoelectrons at photon and electron impact excitation energies below ∼15 eV. Our results highlight that vibrational inelastic electron scattering processes and neutral photoexcitation and autoionization channels become increasingly important when photon and electron kinetic energies are decreased towards the ionization threshold. Correspondingly, we show that for neat water and aqueous solutions, great care must be taken when quantitatively analyzing photoelectron spectra measured too close to the ionization threshold. Such care is essential for the accurate determination of solvent and solute ionization energies as well as photoelectron branching ratios and peak magnitudes.
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- Sebastian Malerz
- Molecular Physics Department, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
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Gao L, Zhang L, Fu Q, Bu Y. Molecular Dynamics Characterization of Dielectron Hydration in Liquid Water with Unique Double Proton Transfers. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 17:666-677. [PMID: 33474934 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.0c01123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Radiation chemistry of water and aqueous solutions has always been an interesting scientific issue owing to involving electronic excitations, ionization of solvated species, and formation of radiolytic species and many elementary reactions, but the underlying mechanisms are still poorly understood. Here, we for the first time molecular dynamics characterize the hydration dynamics of two correlated electrons and their triggered unique phenomena in liquid water associated with radiolysis of water using the combined hybrid functional and nonlocal dispersion functional. Hydration of two electrons may experience two distinctly different mechanisms, one forming a spin-paired closed-shell unicaged dielectron hydrate (e22-aq) and the other forming a spin-paired metastable open-shell bicaged hydrated electron pair (e-aq···e-aq) which exhibits intriguing antiferromagnetic spin coupling dynamics (in a range of -40 cm-1 to -500 cm-1). e-aq···e-aq can recombine to e22-aq through a unique solvent fluctuation-controlled gradual-flowing mechanism, and enlarging fluctuation can promote the conversion. Interestingly, we directly observe that e22-aq as the precursor can trigger hydrogen evolution via unique continuous spontaneous double proton transfer to the dielectron with a short-lived H-aq intermediate, but e-aq···e-aq does not directly. This is the first direct observation for the connection between e22-aq and spontaneous hydrogen evolution including participation of H-aq in aqueous solution, bridging relevant experimental phenomena. This work also evidences an unnoticed process, the double proton transfer mediated charge separation, and presents the first detailed analysis regarding the evolution dynamics of e22-aq for the understanding of the radiolysis reactions in aqueous solutions.
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- Liang Gao
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, People's Republic of China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, People's Republic of China
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An [Ru(apy)2Cl2] precursor (apy = 2,2′-azopyridine) in 2-methoxyethanol was heated under a pressurized CO atmosphere to afford a diradical complex, [Ru(apy·−)2(CO)2], containing one-electron-reduced azo anion radical ligands. The electronic states of the complex were characterized by spectroscopic techniques and computational studies. Magnetic measurements revealed the existence of antiferromagnetic interactions in the diradical complex.
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Park SJ, Schwartz BJ. Evaluating Simple Ab Initio Models of the Hydrated Electron: The Role of Dynamical Fluctuations. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:9592-9603. [PMID: 33078930 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c06356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Despite its importance in electron transfer reactions and radiation chemistry, there has been disagreement over the fundamental nature of the hydrated electron, such as whether or not it resides in a cavity. Mixed quantum/classical simulations of the hydrated electron give different structures depending on the pseudopotential employed, and ab initio models of computational necessity use small numbers of water molecules and/or provide insufficient statistics to compare to experimental observables. A few years ago, Kumar et al. (J. Phys. Chem. A 2015, 119, 9148) proposed a minimalist ab initio model of the hydrated electron with only a small number of explicitly treated water molecules plus a polarizable continuum model (PCM). They found that the optimized geometry had four waters arranged tetrahedrally around a central cavity, and that the calculated vertical detachment energy and radius of gyration agreed well with experiment, results that were largely independent of the level of theory employed. The model, however, is based on a fixed structure at 0 K and does not explicitly incorporate entropic contributions or the thermal fluctuations that should be associated with the room-temperature hydrated electron. Thus, in this paper, we extend the model of Kumar et al. by running Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD) of a small number of water molecules with an excess electron plus PCM at room temperature. We find that when thermal fluctuations are introduced, the level of theory chosen becomes critical enough when only four waters are used that one of the waters dissociates from the cluster with certain density functionals. Moreover, even with an optimally tuned range-separated hybrid functional, at room temperature the tetrahedral orientation of the 0 K first-shell waters is entirely lost and the central cavity collapses, a process driven by the fact that the explicit water molecules prefer to make H-bonds with each other more than with the excess electron. The resulting average structure is quite similar to that produced by a noncavity mixed quantum/classical model, so that the minimalist 4-water BOMD models suffer from problems similar to those of noncavity models, such as predicting the wrong sign of the hydrated electron's molar solvation volume. We also performed BOMD with 16 explicit water molecules plus an extra electron and PCM. We find that the inclusion of an entire second solvation shell of explicit water leads to little change in the outcome from when only four waters were used. In fact, the 16-water simulations behave much like those of water cluster anions, in which the electron localizes at the cluster surface, showing that PCM is not acceptable for use in minimalist models to describe the behavior of the bulk hydrated electron. For both the 4- and 16-water models, we investigate how the introduction of thermal motions alters the predicted absorption spectrum, vertical detachment energy, and resonance Raman spectrum of the simulated hydrated electron. We also present a set of structural criteria that can be used to numerically determine how cavity-like (or not) a particular hydrated electron model is. All of the results emphasize that the hydrated electron is a statistical object whose properties are inadequately captured using only a small number of explicit waters, and that a proper treatment of thermal fluctuations is critical to understanding the hydrated electron's chemical and physical behavior.
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- Sanghyun J Park
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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Ban L, West CW, Chasovskikh E, Gartmann TE, Yoder BL, Signorell R. Below Band Gap Formation of Solvated Electrons in Neutral Water Clusters? J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:7959-7965. [PMID: 32878434 PMCID: PMC7536715 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c06935] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2020] [Revised: 09/01/2020] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Below band gap formation of solvated electrons in neutral water clusters using pump-probe photoelectron imaging is compared with recent data for liquid water and with above band gap excitation studies in liquid and clusters. Similar relaxation times on the order of 200 fs and 1-2 ps are retrieved for below and above band gap excitation, in both clusters and liquid. The independence of the relaxation times from the generation process indicates that these times are dominated by the solvent response, which is significantly slower than the various solvated electron formation processes. The analysis of the temporal evolution of the vertical electron binding energy and the electron binding energy at half-maximum suggests a dependence of the solvation time on the binding energy.
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- Loren Ban
- ETH Zurich, Department of Chemistry
and Applied Biosciences, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- ETH Zurich, Department of Chemistry
and Applied Biosciences, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- ETH Zurich, Department of Chemistry
and Applied Biosciences, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- ETH Zurich, Department of Chemistry
and Applied Biosciences, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- ETH Zurich, Department of Chemistry
and Applied Biosciences, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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- ETH Zurich, Department of Chemistry
and Applied Biosciences, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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Rao U, Su Y, Khor CM, Jung B, Ma S, Cwiertny DM, Wong BM, Jassby D. Structural Dependence of Reductive Defluorination of Linear PFAS Compounds in a UV/Electrochemical System. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2020; 54:10668-10677. [PMID: 32786552 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c02773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), legacy chemicals used in firefighting and the manufacturing of many industrial and consumer goods, are widely found in groundwater resources, along with other regulated compounds, such as chlorinated solvents. Due to their strong C-F bonds, these molecules are extremely recalcitrant, requiring advanced treatment methods for effective remediation, with hydrated electrons shown to be able to defluorinated these compounds. A combined photo/electrochemical method has been demonstrated to dramatically increase defluorination rates, where PFAS molecules sorbed onto appropriately functionalized cathodes charged to low cell potentials (-0.58 V vs Ag/AgCl) undergo a transient electron transfer event from the electrode, which "primes" the molecule by reducing the C-F bond strength and enables the bond's dissociation upon the absorption of a hydrated electron. In this work, we explore the impact of headgroup and chain length on the performance of this two-electron process and extend this technique to chlorinated solvents. We use isotopically labeled PFAS molecules to take advantage of the kinetic isotope effect and demonstrate that indeed PFAS defluorination is likely driven by a two-electron process. We also present density functional theory calculations to illustrate that the externally applied potential resulted in an increased rate of electron transfer, which ultimately increased the measured defluorination rate.
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- Unnati Rao
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-153, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-153, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-153, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-153, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-153, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, United States
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- Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering Program, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-153, United States
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Gozem S, Seidel R, Hergenhahn U, Lugovoy E, Abel B, Winter B, Krylov AI, Bradforth SE. Probing the Electronic Structure of Bulk Water at the Molecular Length Scale with Angle-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:5162-5170. [PMID: 32479725 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We report a combined experimental and theoretical study of bulk water photoionization. Angular distributions of photoelectrons produced by ionizing the valence bands of neat water using X-ray radiation (250-750 eV) show a limited (∼20%) decrease in the β anisotropy parameter compared to the gas phase, indicating that the electronic structure of the individual water molecules can be probed. We show that, in the high-energy regime, photoionization of bulk can be described using an incoherent superposition of individual molecules, in contrast to a low-energy regime where photoionization probes delocalized entangled states of molecular aggregates. The two regimes-low versus high energy-are limiting cases where the de Broglie wavelength of the photoelectron is larger or smaller than the intermolecular distance between water molecules, respectively. The comparison of measured and computed anisotropies reveals that the reduction in β at high kinetic energies is mostly due to scattering rather than rehybridization due to solvation.
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- Samer Gozem
- Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, United States
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Albert-Einstein-Straße 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Chemistry, Brook-Taylor-Strasse 2, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM), Department of Functional Surfaces, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM), Department of Functional Surfaces, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
- University of Leipzig, Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Linnéstrasse 3, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM), Department of Functional Surfaces, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
- University of Leipzig, Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Linnéstrasse 3, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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- Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22671 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, United States
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Trabattoni A, Colaizzi L, Ban L, Wanie V, Saraswathula K, Månsson EP, Rupp P, Liu Q, Seiffert L, Herzig EA, Cartella A, Yoder BL, Légaré F, Kling MF, Fennel T, Signorell R, Calegari F. Photoelectron spectroscopy of large water clusters ionized by an XUV comb. JPHYS PHOTONICS 2020. [DOI: 10.1088/2515-7647/ab92b1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Detailed knowledge about photo-induced electron dynamics in water is key to the understanding of several biological and chemical mechanisms, in particular for those resulting from ionizing radiation. Here we report a method to obtain photoelectron spectra from neutral water clusters following ionization by an extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) attosecond pulse train, representing a first step towards a time-resolved analysis. Typically, a large background signal in the experiment arises from water monomers and carrier gas used in the cluster source. We report a protocol to quantify this background in order to eliminate it from the experimental spectra. We disentangle the accumulated XUV photoionization signal into contributions from the background species and the photoelectron spectra from the clusters. This proof-of-principle study demonstrates feasibility of background free photoelectron spectra of neutral water clusters ionized by XUV combs and paves the way for the detailed time-resolved analysis of the underlying dynamics.
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Signorell R. Electron Scattering in Liquid Water and Amorphous Ice: A Striking Resemblance. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 124:205501. [PMID: 32501058 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.205501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2020] [Accepted: 04/29/2020] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The lack of accurate low-energy electron scattering cross sections for liquid water is a substantial source of uncertainty in the modeling of radiation chemistry and biology. The use of existing amorphous ice scattering cross sections for the lack of liquid data has been discussed controversially for decades. Here, we compare experimental photoemission data of liquid water with corresponding predictions using amorphous ice cross sections, with the aim of resolving the debate regarding the difference of electron scattering in liquid water and amorphous ice. We find very similar scattering properties in the liquid and the ice for electron kinetic energies up to a few hundred electron volts. The scattering cross sections recommended here for liquid water are an extension of the amorphous ice cross sections. Within the framework of currently available experimental data, our work answers one of the most debated questions regarding electron scattering in liquid water.
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- Ruth Signorell
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Intriguing properties of photoemission from free, unsupported particles and droplets were predicted nearly 50 years ago, though experiments were a technical challenge. The last few decades have seen a surge of research in the field, due to advances in aerosol technology (generation, characterization, and transfer into vacuum), the development of photoelectron imaging spectrometers, and advances in vacuum ultraviolet and ultrafast light sources. Particles and droplets offer several advantages for photoemission studies. For example, photoemission spectra are dependent on the particle's size, shape, and composition, providing a wealth of information that allows for the retrieval of genuine electronic properties of condensed phase. In this review, with a focus on submicrometer-sized, dielectric particles and droplets, we explain the utility of photoemission from such systems, summarize several applications from the literature, and present some thoughts on future research directions.
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- Loren Ban
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland;
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland;
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- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland;
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West CW, Nishitani J, Higashimura C, Suzuki T. Extreme ultraviolet time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of aqueous aniline solution: enhanced surface concentration and pump-induced space charge effect. Mol Phys 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2020.1748240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Christopher W. West
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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Signorell R. Comment on "Is the Hydrated Electron Vertical Detachment Genuinely Bimodal?". J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:1666-1667. [PMID: 32004003 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b10158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Ruth Signorell
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry , ETH Zürich , Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 2 , CH-8093 Zürich , Switzerland
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