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Eng J, Rankine CD, Penfold TJ. The photochemistry of Rydberg-excited cyclobutanone: Photoinduced processes and ground state dynamics. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:154301. [PMID: 38619456 DOI: 10.1063/5.0203597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2024] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 04/16/2024] Open
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Owing to ring strain, cyclic ketones exhibit complex excited state dynamics with multiple competing photochemical channels active on the ultrafast timescale. While the excited state dynamics of cyclobutanone after π* ← n excitation into the lowest-energy excited singlet (S1) state has been extensively studied, the dynamics following 3s ← n excitation into the higher-lying singlet Rydberg (S2) state are less well understood. Herein, we employ fully quantum multiconfigurational time-dependent Hartree (MCTDH) simulations using a model Hamiltonian as well as "on-the-fly" trajectory-based surface-hopping dynamics (TSHD) simulations to study the relaxation dynamics of cyclobutanone following 3s ← n excitation and to predict the ultrafast electron diffraction scattering signature of these relaxation dynamics. Our MCTDH and TSHD simulations indicate that relaxation from the initially-populated singlet Rydberg (S2) state occurs on the timescale of a few hundreds of femtoseconds to a picosecond, consistent with the symmetry-forbidden nature of the state-to-state transition involved. There is no obvious involvement of excited triplet states within the timeframe of our simulations (<2 ps). After non-radiative relaxation to the electronic ground state (S0), vibrationally hot cyclobutanone has sufficient internal energy to form multiple fragmented products including C2H4 + CH2CO (C2; 20%) and C3H6 + CO (C3; 2.5%). We discuss the limitations of our MCTDH and TSHD simulations, how these may influence the excited state dynamics we observe, and-ultimately-the predictive power of the simulated experimental observable.
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- J Eng
- Chemistry, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
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- Chemistry, School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
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Middleton C, Rankine CD, Penfold TJ. An on-the-fly deep neural network for simulating time-resolved spectroscopy: predicting the ultrafast ring opening dynamics of 1,2-dithiane. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:13325-13334. [PMID: 37139551 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp00510k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Revolutionary developments in ultrafast light source technology are enabling experimental spectroscopists to probe the structural dynamics of molecules and materials on the femtosecond timescale. The capacity to investigate ultrafast processes afforded by these resources accordingly inspires theoreticians to carry out high-level simulations which facilitate the interpretation of the underlying dynamics probed during these ultrafast experiments. In this Article, we implement a deep neural network (DNN) to convert excited-state molecular dynamics simulations into time-resolved spectroscopic signals. Our DNN is trained on-the-fly from first-principles theoretical data obtained from a set of time-evolving molecular dynamics. The train-test process iterates for each time-step of the dynamics data until the network can predict spectra with sufficient accuracy to replace the computationally intensive quantum chemistry calculations required to produce them, at which point it simulates the time-resolved spectra for longer timescales. The potential of this approach is demonstrated by probing dynamics of the ring opening of 1,2-dithiane using sulphur K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy. The benefits of this strategy will be more markedly apparent for simulations of larger systems which will exhibit a more notable computational burden, making this approach applicable to the study of a diverse range of complex chemical dynamics.
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- Clelia Middleton
- Chemistry - School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
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- Chemistry - School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
- Department of Chemistry, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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- Chemistry - School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
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Wong NGK, Rankine CD, Anstöter CS, Dessent CEH. Photostability of the deprotonated forms of the UV filters homosalate and octyl salicylate: molecular dissociation versus electron detachment following UV excitation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:17068-17076. [PMID: 35791920 PMCID: PMC9301628 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp01612e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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While common molecular anions show a strong propensity to undergo electron detachment upon UV excitation, this process often occurs in competition with molecular ion dissociation. The factors that affect the balance between these two major possible decay pathways have not been well understood to date. Laser photodissociation spectroscopy of the deprotonated forms of the UV filter molecules, Homosalate (HS) and Octyl Salicylate (OS), i.e. [HS - H]- and [OS - H]-, was used to acquire gas-phase UV absorption spectra for [HS - H]- and [OS - H]-via photodepletion from 3.0-5.8 eV. No photofragmentation (i.e. dissociation of the ionic molecular framework) was observed for either [HS - H]- and [OS - H]- following photoexcitation, revealing that electron loss entirely dominates the electronic decay pathways for these systems. High-level quantum chemical calculations were used to map out the excited states associated with [HS - H]- and [OS - H]-, revealing that the minimum-energy crossing points (MECPs) between the S1 and S0 states are located in elevated regions of the potential energy surface, making internal conversion unlikely. These results are consistent with our experimental observation that electron detachment out-competes hot ground state molecular fragmentation. More generally, our results reveal that the competition between molecular dissociation and electron detachment following anion photoexcitation can be determined by the magnitude of the energy gap between the excitation energy and the MECPs, rather than being a simple function of whether the excitation energy lies above the anion's vertical detachment energy.
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- Natalie G K Wong
- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD, UK.
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- Chemistry - School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle, upon Tyne, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD, UK.
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Rankine CD, Penfold TJ. Accurate, affordable, and generalizable machine learning simulations of transition metal x-ray absorption spectra using the XANESNET deep neural network. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:164102. [PMID: 35490005 DOI: 10.1063/5.0087255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The affordable, accurate, and generalizable prediction of spectroscopic observables plays a key role in the analysis of increasingly complex experiments. In this article, we develop and deploy a deep neural network-XANESNET-for predicting the lineshape of first-row transition metal K-edge x-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectra. XANESNET predicts the spectral intensities using only information about the local coordination geometry of the transition metal complexes encoded in a feature vector of weighted atom-centered symmetry functions. We address in detail the calibration of the feature vector for the particularities of the problem at hand, and we explore the individual feature importance to reveal the physical insight that XANESNET obtains at the Fe K-edge. XANESNET relies on only a few judiciously selected features-radial information on the first and second coordination shells suffices along with angular information sufficient to separate satisfactorily key coordination geometries. The feature importance is found to reflect the XANES spectral window under consideration and is consistent with the expected underlying physics. We subsequently apply XANESNET at nine first-row transition metal (Ti-Zn) K-edges. It can be optimized in as little as a minute, predicts instantaneously, and provides K-edge XANES spectra with an average accuracy of ∼±2%-4% in which the positions of prominent peaks are matched with a >90% hit rate to sub-eV (∼0.8 eV) error.
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- C D Rankine
- Chemistry-School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
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- Chemistry-School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
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Watson L, Rankine CD, Penfold TJ. Beyond structural insight: a deep neural network for the prediction of Pt L 2/3-edge X-ray absorption spectra. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:9156-9167. [PMID: 35393987 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp00567k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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X-ray absorption spectroscopy at the L2/3 edge can be used to obtain detailed information about the local electronic and geometric structure of transition metal complexes. By virtue of the dipole selection rules, the transition metal L2/3 edge usually exhibits two distinct spectral regions: (i) the "white line", which is dominated by bound electronic transitions from metal-centred 2p orbitals into unoccupied orbitals with d character; the intensity and shape of this band consequently reflects the d density of states (d-DOS), which is strongly modulated by mixing with ligand orbitals involved in chemical bonding, and (ii) the post-edge, where oscillations encode the local geometric structure around the X-ray absorption site. In this Article, we extend our recently-developed XANESNET deep neural network (DNN) beyond the K-edge to predict X-ray absorption spectra at the Pt L2/3 edge. We demonstrate that XANESNET is able to predict Pt L2/3 -edge X-ray absorption spectra, including both the parts containing electronic and geometric structural information. The performance of our DNN in practical situations is demonstrated by application to two Pt complexes, and by simulating the transient spectrum of a photoexcited dimeric Pt complex. Our discussion includes an analysis of the feature importance in our DNN which demonstrates the role of key features and assists with interpreting the performance of the network.
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- Luke Watson
- Chemistry - School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle, upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
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- Chemistry - School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle, upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
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- Chemistry - School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle, upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
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Wong NK, Rankine CD, Dessent CEH. Measurement of the Population of Electrosprayed Deprotomers of Coumaric Acids Using UV-Vis Laser Photodissociation Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:6703-6714. [PMID: 34342453 PMCID: PMC8389988 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c04880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2021] [Revised: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The measurement of deprotonation sites in multifunctional molecules following electrospray ionization is important to better inform a wide range of spectroscopic and photophysical studies that use electrospray to prepare molecular species for study in the gas phase. We demonstrate that low-resolution UV-vis laser photodissociation spectroscopy can be applied in situ to identify the deprotomers of three coumaric acids, trans-para-coumaric acid (CMA), trans-caffeic acid (CA), and trans-ferulic acid (FA), formed via electrospray. Electronic absorption spectra of the deprotonated coumaric acids are recorded via photodepletion and photofragmentation following electrospray from solutions of ethanol and acetonitrile. By comparing the experimental spectra to wave function theory calculations, we are able to confirm the presence of phenoxide and carboxylate deprotomers upon electrospray for all three coumaric acids, when sprayed from both protic and aprotic solvents. Ratios of the phenoxide:carboxylate deprotomers are obtained by generating summed theoretical absorption spectra that reproduce the experimental spectra. We find that choice of electrospray solvent has little effect on the ratio of deprotomers obtained for deprotonated CMA and CA but has a greater impact for FA. Our results are in excellent agreement with previous work conducted on deprotonated CMA using IR spectroscopy and demonstrate that UV photodissociation spectroscopy of electrosprayed ions has potential as a diagnostic tool for identifying deprotomeric species.
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- Natalie
G. K. Wong
- Department
of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, U.K.
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- School
of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle
University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 7RU, U.K.
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Madkhali MMM, Rankine CD, Penfold TJ. Enhancing the analysis of disorder in X-ray absorption spectra: application of deep neural networks to T-jump-X-ray probe experiments. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:9259-9269. [PMID: 33885072 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp06244h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Many chemical and biological reactions, including ligand exchange processes, require thermal energy for the reactants to overcome a transition barrier and reach the product state. Temperature-jump (T-jump) spectroscopy uses a near-infrared (NIR) pulse to rapidly heat a sample, offering an approach for triggering these processes and directly accessing thermally-activated pathways. However, thermal activation inherently increases the disorder of the system under study and, as a consequence, can make quantitative interpretations of structural changes challenging. In this Article, we optimise a deep neural network (DNN) for the instantaneous prediction of Co K-edge X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectra. We apply our DNN to analyse T-jump pump/X-ray probe data pertaining to the ligand exchange processes and solvation dynamics of Co2+ in chlorinated aqueous solution. Our analysis is greatly facilitated by machine learning, as our DNN is able to predict quickly and cost-effectively the XANES spectra of thousands of geometric configurations sampled from ab initio molecular dynamics (MD) using nothing more than the local geometric environment around the X-ray absorption site. We identify directly the structural changes following the T-jump, which are dominated by sample heating and a commensurate increase in the Debye-Waller factor.
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- Marwah M M Madkhali
- Chemistry - School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
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Wong NK, Rankine CD, Dessent CEH. Linking Electronic Relaxation Dynamics and Ionic Photofragmentation Patterns for the Deprotonated UV Filter Benzophenone-4. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:2831-2836. [PMID: 33719458 PMCID: PMC8041369 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Understanding how deprotonation impacts the photophysics of UV filters is critical to better characterize how they behave in key alkaline environments including surface waters and coral reefs. Using anion photodissociation spectroscopy, we have measured the intrinsic absorption electronic spectroscopy (400-214 nm) and numerous accompanying ionic photofragmentation pathways of the benzophenone-4 anion ([BP4-H]-). Relative ion yield plots reveal the locations of the bright S1 and S3 excited states. For the first time for an ionic UV filter, ab initio potential energy surfaces are presented to provide new insight into how the photofragment identity maps the relaxation pathways. These calculations reveal that [BP4-H]- undergoes excited-state decay consistent with a statistical fragmentation process where the anion breaks down on the ground state after nonradiative relaxation. The broader relevance of the results in providing a basis for interpreting the relaxation dynamics of a wide range of gas-phase ionic systems is discussed.
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- Natalie
G. K. Wong
- Department
of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, U.K.
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- School
of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle
University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU, U.K.
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The ultrafast excited-state dynamics of 2,4,6-triaminopyrimidine - thought to be a promising candidate for a proto-RNA nucleobase - have been investigated via static multireference quantum-chemical calculations and mixed-quantum-classical/trajectory surface-hopping dynamics with a focus on the lowest-lying electronic states of the singlet manifold and with a view towards understanding the UV(C)/UV(B) photostability of the molecule. Ultrafast internal conversion channels have been identified that connect the lowest-lying ππ* electronically-excited state of 2,4,6-triaminopyrimidine with the ground electronic state, and non-radiative decay has been observed to take place on the picosecond timescale via a ππ* out-of-plane NH2 ("oop-NH2") minimum-energy crossing point. The short excited-state lifetime is competitive with the excited-state lifetimes of the canonical pyrimidine nucleobases, affirming the promise of 2,4,6-triaminopyrimidine as an ancestor. Evidence for energy-dependent excited-state dynamics is presented, and the open question of intersystem crossing is discussed speculatively.
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- Conor D Rankine
- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.
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Yang J, Nunes JPF, Ledbetter K, Biasin E, Centurion M, Chen Z, Cordones AA, Crissman C, Deponte DP, Glenzer SH, Lin MF, Mo M, Rankine CD, Shen X, Wolf TJA, Wang X. Structure retrieval in liquid-phase electron scattering. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:1308-1316. [PMID: 33367391 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp06045c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Electron scattering on liquid samples has been enabled recently by the development of ultrathin liquid sheet technologies. The data treatment of liquid-phase electron scattering has been mostly reliant on methodologies developed for gas electron diffraction, in which theoretical inputs and empirical fittings are often needed to account for the atomic form factor and remove the inelastic scattering background. In this work, we present an alternative data treatment method that is able to retrieve the radial distribution of all the charged particle pairs without the need of either theoretical inputs or empirical fittings. The merits of this new method are illustrated through the retrieval of real-space molecular structure from experimental electron scattering patterns of liquid water, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, and dichloromethane.
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- Jie Yang
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA. and Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA and Physics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA. and Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA.
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA. and Physics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA.
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA.
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA.
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- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA.
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA
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- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA.
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- Goran Bačić
- Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, Saint Mary’s University, 923 Robie Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada
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Ja'o AM, Wann DA, Rankine CD, Polson MIJ, Masters SL. Utilizing the Combined Power of Theory and Experiment to Understand Molecular Structure – Solid-State and Gas-Phase Investigation of Morpholine Borane. Aust J Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1071/ch19492] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The molecular structure of morpholine borane complex has been studied in the solid state and gas phase using single-crystal X-ray diffraction, gas electron diffraction, and computational methods. Despite both the solid-state and gas-phase structures adopting the same conformation, a definite decrease in the B–N bond length of the solid-state structure was observed. Other structural variations in the different phases are presented and discussed. To explore the hydrogen storage potential of morpholine borane, the potential energy surface for the uncatalyzed and BH3-catalyzed pathways, as well as the thermochemistry for the hydrogen release reaction, were investigated using accurate quantum chemical methods. It was observed that both the catalyzed and uncatalyzed dehydrogenation pathways are favourable, with a barrier lower than the B–N bond dissociation energy, thus indicating a strong propensity for the complex to release a hydrogen molecule rather than dissociate along the B–N bond axis. A minimal energy requirement for the dehydrogenation reaction has been shown. The reaction is close to thermoneutral as demonstrated by the calculated dehydrogenation reaction energies, thus implying that this complex could demonstrate potential for future on-board hydrogen generation.
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Ja'o AM, Masters SL, Wann DA, Rankine CD, Nunes JPF, Guillemin JC. Direct Experimental Observation of in situ Dehydrogenation of an Amine-Borane System Using Gas Electron Diffraction. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:7104-7112. [PMID: 31314528 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b05522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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In situ dehydrogenation of azetidine-BH3, which is a candidate for hydrogen storage, was observed with the parent and dehydrogenated analogue subjected to rigorous structural and thermochemical investigations. The structural analyses utilized gas electron diffraction supported by high-level quantum calculations, while the pathway for the unimolecular hydrogen release reaction in the absence and presence of BH3 as a bifunctional catalyst was predicted at the CBS-QB3 level. The catalyzed dehydrogenation pathway has a barrier lower than the predicted B-N bond dissociation energy, hence favoring the dehydrogenation process over the dissociation of the complex. The predicted enthalpy of dehydrogenation at the CCSD(T)/CBS level indicates that mild reaction conditions would be required for hydrogen release and that the compound is closer to thermoneutral than linear amine boranes. The entropy and free energy change for the dehydrogenation process show that the reaction is exergonic, energetically feasible, and will proceed spontaneously toward hydrogen release, all of which are important factors for hydrogen storage.
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- Aliyu M Ja'o
- School of Physical and Chemical Sciences , University of Canterbury , Private Bag 4100 , Christchurch 8140 , New Zealand
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- School of Physical and Chemical Sciences , University of Canterbury , Private Bag 4100 , Christchurch 8140 , New Zealand
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- Department of Chemistry , University of York , Heslington, York , YO10 5DD , U.K
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- Department of Chemistry , University of York , Heslington, York , YO10 5DD , U.K
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- Department of Chemistry , University of York , Heslington, York , YO10 5DD , U.K
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- Univ Rennes, École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, CNRS, ISCR-UMR6226 , Rennes F-35000 , France
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Rankine CD, Nunes JPF, Feixas TWBL, Young S, Wann DA. Structure of 4-(Dimethylamino)benzonitrile Using Gas Electron Diffraction: A New Lease of Life for the Only Gas Electron Diffractometer in the U.K. . J Phys Chem A 2018; 122:5656-5665. [PMID: 29870255 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b03613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The continued demand for gas-phase molecular structures has led to the recommissioning of a gas electron diffractometer, formerly housed at the University of Reading. The gas electron diffractometer, now the only one of its kind in the U.K., is currently housed at the University of York, where it is now used routinely to determine directly structures of isolated molecules in the gas phase. The instrument has been fitted with an air-heated nozzle assembly to increase the range of molecules accessible to study in the gas phase; the efficacy of this assembly is demonstrated in this article via the determination of the gas-phase structure of 4-(dimethylamino)benzonitrile (DMABN) at high temperature. A series of complementary theoretical calculations using the B2PLYP DFT functional of Grimme et al. with correlation-consistent basis sets of double, triple, and quadruple-ζ quality are also presented. The agreement between the experimental and theoretical structural parameters attests to the accuracy of the applied theoretical calculations and of our gas-phase structural solution.
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- Conor D Rankine
- Department of Chemistry , University of York , Heslington, York YO10 5DD , U.K
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- Department of Chemistry , University of York , Heslington, York YO10 5DD , U.K
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- Department of Chemistry , University of York , Heslington, York YO10 5DD , U.K
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- Department of Chemistry , University of York , Heslington, York YO10 5DD , U.K
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Rankine CD, Atkinson SJ, Waterland MR, Masters SL, Wann DA. The structure of tris(chloromethyl)amine in the gas phase using quantum chemical calculations and gas electron diffraction and as a solid and melt using Raman spectroscopy. Struct Chem 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s11224-018-1089-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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