Observing the Structural Evolution in the Photodissociation of Diiodomethane with Femtosecond Solution X-Ray Scattering
Abstract
Resolving the structural dynamics of the initial steps of chemical reactions is challenging. We report the femtosecond time-resolved wide-angle x-ray scattering of the photodissociation of diiodomethane in cyclohexane. The data reveal with structural detail how the molecule dissociates into radicals, how the radicals collide with the solvent, and how they form the photoisomer. We extract how translational and rotational kinetic energy is dispersed into the solvent. We also find that 85% of the primary radical pairs are confined to their original solvent cage and discuss how this influences the downstream recombination reactions.
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- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); German Research Foundation (DFG); European Research Council (ERC)
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- 1724239
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- AC02-76SF00515; 279944; 6581802; HU 1971-1/1; HU 1971-3/1; HU 1971-4/1; 2016A8037
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- Physical Review Letters
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- Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Volume: 125 Journal Issue: 22; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
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- American Physical Society (APS)
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- United States
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- English
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- 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; Chemical Physics & Physical Chemistry; Chemical reactions; Structural properties; Liquids; Configuration interaction; Molecular dynamics; X-ray diffuse scattering
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Panman, Matthijs R., Biasin, Elisa, Berntsson, Oskar, Hermann, Markus, Niebling, Stephan, Hughes, Ashley J., Kübel, Joachim, Atkovska, Kalina, Gustavsson, Emil, Nimmrich, Amke, Dohn, Asmus O., Laursen, Mads, Zederkof, Diana B., Honarfar, Alireza, Tono, Kensuke, Katayama, Tetsuo, Owada, Shigeki, van Driel, Tim B., Kjaer, Kasper, Nielsen, Martin M., Davidsson, Jan, Uhlig, Jens, Haldrup, Kristoffer, Hub, Jochen S., and Westenhoff, Sebastian. Observing the Structural Evolution in the Photodissociation of Diiodomethane with Femtosecond Solution X-Ray Scattering. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.226001.
Panman, Matthijs R., Biasin, Elisa, Berntsson, Oskar, Hermann, Markus, Niebling, Stephan, Hughes, Ashley J., Kübel, Joachim, Atkovska, Kalina, Gustavsson, Emil, Nimmrich, Amke, Dohn, Asmus O., Laursen, Mads, Zederkof, Diana B., Honarfar, Alireza, Tono, Kensuke, Katayama, Tetsuo, Owada, Shigeki, van Driel, Tim B., Kjaer, Kasper, Nielsen, Martin M., Davidsson, Jan, Uhlig, Jens, Haldrup, Kristoffer, Hub, Jochen S., & Westenhoff, Sebastian. Observing the Structural Evolution in the Photodissociation of Diiodomethane with Femtosecond Solution X-Ray Scattering. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.226001
Panman, Matthijs R., Biasin, Elisa, Berntsson, Oskar, Hermann, Markus, Niebling, Stephan, Hughes, Ashley J., Kübel, Joachim, Atkovska, Kalina, Gustavsson, Emil, Nimmrich, Amke, Dohn, Asmus O., Laursen, Mads, Zederkof, Diana B., Honarfar, Alireza, Tono, Kensuke, Katayama, Tetsuo, Owada, Shigeki, van Driel, Tim B., Kjaer, Kasper, Nielsen, Martin M., Davidsson, Jan, Uhlig, Jens, Haldrup, Kristoffer, Hub, Jochen S., and Westenhoff, Sebastian. Tue .
"Observing the Structural Evolution in the Photodissociation of Diiodomethane with Femtosecond Solution X-Ray Scattering". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.226001.
@article{osti_1724239,
title = {Observing the Structural Evolution in the Photodissociation of Diiodomethane with Femtosecond Solution X-Ray Scattering},
author = {Panman, Matthijs R. and Biasin, Elisa and Berntsson, Oskar and Hermann, Markus and Niebling, Stephan and Hughes, Ashley J. and Kübel, Joachim and Atkovska, Kalina and Gustavsson, Emil and Nimmrich, Amke and Dohn, Asmus O. and Laursen, Mads and Zederkof, Diana B. and Honarfar, Alireza and Tono, Kensuke and Katayama, Tetsuo and Owada, Shigeki and van Driel, Tim B. and Kjaer, Kasper and Nielsen, Martin M. and Davidsson, Jan and Uhlig, Jens and Haldrup, Kristoffer and Hub, Jochen S. and Westenhoff, Sebastian},
abstractNote = {Resolving the structural dynamics of the initial steps of chemical reactions is challenging. We report the femtosecond time-resolved wide-angle x-ray scattering of the photodissociation of diiodomethane in cyclohexane. The data reveal with structural detail how the molecule dissociates into radicals, how the radicals collide with the solvent, and how they form the photoisomer. We extract how translational and rotational kinetic energy is dispersed into the solvent. We also find that 85% of the primary radical pairs are confined to their original solvent cage and discuss how this influences the downstream recombination reactions.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.226001},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 22,
volume = 125,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {11}
}
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