The Photochemistry of Rydberg Excited Cyclobutanone: Photoinduced Processes and Ground State Dynamics
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| author | Eng, Julien Rankine, Conor Penfold, Thomas |
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| contents | 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 $π^{\ast}\leftarrow n$ excitation into the lowest-energy excited singlet state (S$_1$) has been extensively studied, the dynamics following 3$s\leftarrow n$ excitation into the higher-lying singlet Rydberg (S$_2$) state are less well understood. Herein, we couple quantum and excited-state trajectory surface-hopping molecular dynamics simulations to study the relaxation of cyclobutanone following 3s$\leftarrow n$ excitation and to predict the ultrafast electron diffraction scattering signal that we anticipate to arise from the relaxation dynamics that we observe. Our simulations indicate that relaxation from the initially-populated singlet Rydberg state occurs on the hundreds-of-femtosecond to picosecond timescale consistent with the symmetry-forbidden nature of the state-to-state transition involved. Once cyclobutanone has relaxed non-radiatively to the electronic ground state (S$_0$), the vibrationally hot molecules have sufficient energy to form multiple fragmentory products on the electronic ground-state surface including C$_2$H$_4$ + CH$_2$CO (C2; 20%), and C$_3$H$_6$ + CO (C3; 2.5%). We discuss the limitations of our simulations, how these may influence the outcome of the excited-state dynamics we observe, and -- ultimately -- the predictive power of the simulated experimental observable. |
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| spellingShingle | The Photochemistry of Rydberg Excited Cyclobutanone: Photoinduced Processes and Ground State Dynamics Eng, Julien Rankine, Conor Penfold, Thomas Chemical Physics 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 $π^{\ast}\leftarrow n$ excitation into the lowest-energy excited singlet state (S$_1$) has been extensively studied, the dynamics following 3$s\leftarrow n$ excitation into the higher-lying singlet Rydberg (S$_2$) state are less well understood. Herein, we couple quantum and excited-state trajectory surface-hopping molecular dynamics simulations to study the relaxation of cyclobutanone following 3s$\leftarrow n$ excitation and to predict the ultrafast electron diffraction scattering signal that we anticipate to arise from the relaxation dynamics that we observe. Our simulations indicate that relaxation from the initially-populated singlet Rydberg state occurs on the hundreds-of-femtosecond to picosecond timescale consistent with the symmetry-forbidden nature of the state-to-state transition involved. Once cyclobutanone has relaxed non-radiatively to the electronic ground state (S$_0$), the vibrationally hot molecules have sufficient energy to form multiple fragmentory products on the electronic ground-state surface including C$_2$H$_4$ + CH$_2$CO (C2; 20%), and C$_3$H$_6$ + CO (C3; 2.5%). We discuss the limitations of our simulations, how these may influence the outcome of the excited-state dynamics we observe, and -- ultimately -- the predictive power of the simulated experimental observable. |
| title | The Photochemistry of Rydberg Excited Cyclobutanone: Photoinduced Processes and Ground State Dynamics |
| topic | Chemical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09140 |