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author Nunes, Joao Pedro Figueira
Ibele, Lea Maria
Pathak, Shashank
Attar, Andrew R.
Bhattacharyya, Surjendu
Boll, Rebecca
Borne, Kurtis
Centurion, Martin
Erk, Benjamin
Lin, Ming-Fu
Forbes, Ruaridh J. G.
Goff, Nate
Hansen, Christopher S.
Hoffmann, Matthias
Holland, David M. P.
Ingle, Rebecca A.
Luo, Duan
Muvva, Sri Bhavya
Reid, Alex
Rouzée, Arnaud
Rudenko, Artem
Saha, Sajib Kumar
Shen, Xiaozhe
Venkatachalam, Anbu Selvam
Wang, Xijie
Ware, Matt R.
Weathersby, Stephen P.
Wilkin, Kyle
Wolf, Thomas J. A.
Xiong, Yanwei
Yang, Jie
Ashfold, Michael N. R.
Rolles, Daniel
Curchod, Basile F. E.
author_facet Nunes, Joao Pedro Figueira
Ibele, Lea Maria
Pathak, Shashank
Attar, Andrew R.
Bhattacharyya, Surjendu
Boll, Rebecca
Borne, Kurtis
Centurion, Martin
Erk, Benjamin
Lin, Ming-Fu
Forbes, Ruaridh J. G.
Goff, Nate
Hansen, Christopher S.
Hoffmann, Matthias
Holland, David M. P.
Ingle, Rebecca A.
Luo, Duan
Muvva, Sri Bhavya
Reid, Alex
Rouzée, Arnaud
Rudenko, Artem
Saha, Sajib Kumar
Shen, Xiaozhe
Venkatachalam, Anbu Selvam
Wang, Xijie
Ware, Matt R.
Weathersby, Stephen P.
Wilkin, Kyle
Wolf, Thomas J. A.
Xiong, Yanwei
Yang, Jie
Ashfold, Michael N. R.
Rolles, Daniel
Curchod, Basile F. E.
contents Identifying multiple rival reaction products and transient species formed during ultrafast photochemical reactions and determining their time-evolving relative populations are key steps towards understanding and predicting photochemical outcomes. Yet, most contemporary ultrafast studies struggle with clearly identifying and quantifying competing molecular structures/species amongst the emerging reaction products. Here, we show that mega-electronvolt ultrafast electron diffraction in combination with ab initio molecular dynamics calculations offer a powerful route to determining time-resolved populations of the various isomeric products formed after UV (266 nm) excitation of the five-membered heterocyclic molecule 2(5H)-thiophenone. This strategy provides experimental validation of the predicted high (~50%) yield of an episulfide isomer containing a strained 3-membered ring within ~1 ps of photoexcitation and highlights the rapidity of interconversion between the rival highly vibrationally excited photoproducts in their ground electronic state.
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spellingShingle Monitoring the evolution of relative product populations at early times during a photochemical reaction
Nunes, Joao Pedro Figueira
Ibele, Lea Maria
Pathak, Shashank
Attar, Andrew R.
Bhattacharyya, Surjendu
Boll, Rebecca
Borne, Kurtis
Centurion, Martin
Erk, Benjamin
Lin, Ming-Fu
Forbes, Ruaridh J. G.
Goff, Nate
Hansen, Christopher S.
Hoffmann, Matthias
Holland, David M. P.
Ingle, Rebecca A.
Luo, Duan
Muvva, Sri Bhavya
Reid, Alex
Rouzée, Arnaud
Rudenko, Artem
Saha, Sajib Kumar
Shen, Xiaozhe
Venkatachalam, Anbu Selvam
Wang, Xijie
Ware, Matt R.
Weathersby, Stephen P.
Wilkin, Kyle
Wolf, Thomas J. A.
Xiong, Yanwei
Yang, Jie
Ashfold, Michael N. R.
Rolles, Daniel
Curchod, Basile F. E.
Chemical Physics
Identifying multiple rival reaction products and transient species formed during ultrafast photochemical reactions and determining their time-evolving relative populations are key steps towards understanding and predicting photochemical outcomes. Yet, most contemporary ultrafast studies struggle with clearly identifying and quantifying competing molecular structures/species amongst the emerging reaction products. Here, we show that mega-electronvolt ultrafast electron diffraction in combination with ab initio molecular dynamics calculations offer a powerful route to determining time-resolved populations of the various isomeric products formed after UV (266 nm) excitation of the five-membered heterocyclic molecule 2(5H)-thiophenone. This strategy provides experimental validation of the predicted high (~50%) yield of an episulfide isomer containing a strained 3-membered ring within ~1 ps of photoexcitation and highlights the rapidity of interconversion between the rival highly vibrationally excited photoproducts in their ground electronic state.
title Monitoring the evolution of relative product populations at early times during a photochemical reaction
topic Chemical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12482