Chemical bond activation observed with an x-ray laser

Beye, Martin; Öberg, Henrik; Xin, Hongliang; Dakovski, Georgi L.; Dell’Angela, Martina; Föhlisch, Alexander; Gladh, Jörgen; Hantschmann, Markus; Hieke, Florian; Kaya, Sarp; Kühn, Danilo; LaRue, Jerry; Mercurio, Giuseppe; Minitti, Michael P.; Mitra, Ankush; Moeller, Stefan P.; Ng, May Ling; Nilsson, Anders; Nordlund, Dennis; Nørskov, Jens; Öström, Henrik; Ogasawara, Hirohito; Persson, Mats; Schlotter, William F.; Sellberg, Jonas A.; Wolf, Martin; Abild-Pedersen, Frank; Pettersson, Lars G. M.; Wurth, Wilfried

doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01543

Title: Chemical bond activation observed with an x-ray laser

Journal Article · Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01543· OSTI ID:1349302

Beye, Martin ^[1]; Öberg, Henrik ^[2]; Xin, Hongliang ^[3]; Dakovski, Georgi L. ^[3]; Dell’Angela, Martina ^[4]; Föhlisch, Alexander ^[5]; Gladh, Jörgen ^[2]; Hantschmann, Markus ^[6]; Hieke, Florian ^[4]; Kaya, Sarp ^[3]; Kühn, Danilo ^[6]; LaRue, Jerry ^[7]; Mercurio, Giuseppe ^[4]; Minitti, Michael P. ^[3]; Mitra, Ankush ^[3]; Moeller, Stefan P. ^[3]; Ng, May Ling ^[3]; Nilsson, Anders ^[8]; Nordlund, Dennis ^[3]; Nørskov, Jens ^[3] more »

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fur Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin (Germany); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Photon Science, Hamburg (Germany)
Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, (Sweden)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Univ. Hamburg and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Hamburg (Germany)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fur Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin (Germany); Univ. Potsdam, Potsdam (Germany)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fur Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin (Germany)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Chapman Univ., Orange, CA (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, (Sweden)
The Univ. of Liverpool, Liverpool (United Kingdom)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, (Sweden); KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Sweden)
Fritz-Haber Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin (Germany)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) Photon Science, Hamburg (Germany); Univ. Hamburg and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Hamburg (Germany)

The concept of bonding and anti-bonding orbitals is fundamental in chemistry. The population of those orbitals and the energetic difference between the two reflect the strength of the bonding interaction. Weakening the bond is expected to reduce this energetic splitting, but the transient character of bond-activation has so far prohibited direct experimental access. Lastly, we apply time-resolved soft X-ray spectroscopy at a free-electron laser to directly observe the decreased bonding–anti-bonding splitting following bond-activation using an ultra short optical laser pulse.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1349302

Journal Information:: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Vol. 7, Issue 18; ISSN 1948-7185

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Language:: English

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