Disentangling conical intersection and coherent molecular dynamics in methyl bromide with attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy

Henry Timmers; Xiaolei Zhu; Zheng Li; Yuki Kobayashi; Mazyar Sabbar; Maximilian Hollstein; Maurizio Reduzzi; Todd J. Martínez; Daniel M. Neumark; Stephen R. Leone

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-10789-7

Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Disentangling conical intersection and coherent molecular dynamics in methyl bromide with attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy

Henry Timmers,
Xiaolei Zhu,
Zheng Li,
Yuki Kobayashi,
Mazyar Sabbar,
Maximilian Hollstein,
Maurizio Reduzzi,
Todd J. Martínez,
Daniel M. Neumark,
Stephen R. Leone

Affiliations

Henry Timmers: Department of Chemistry, University of California
Xiaolei Zhu: Department of Chemistry and The PULSE Institute, Stanford University
Zheng Li: Department of Chemistry and The PULSE Institute, Stanford University
Yuki Kobayashi: Department of Chemistry, University of California
Mazyar Sabbar: Department of Chemistry, University of California
Maximilian Hollstein: Department of Physics, University of Hamburg
Maurizio Reduzzi: Department of Chemistry, University of California
Todd J. Martínez: Department of Chemistry and The PULSE Institute, Stanford University
Daniel M. Neumark: Department of Chemistry, University of California
Stephen R. Leone: Department of Chemistry, University of California

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10789-7
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Excited-state molecular dynamics may be too complex to be resolved by femtosecond spectroscopic studies. Here the authors resolve the competing pathways in the excited state dynamics of methyl bromide by attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy, from excitation to fragmentation.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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