Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Following excited-state chemical shifts in molecular ultrafast x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

  • D. Mayer,
  • F. Lever,
  • D. Picconi,
  • J. Metje,
  • S. Alisauskas,
  • F. Calegari,
  • S. Düsterer,
  • C. Ehlert,
  • R. Feifel,
  • M. Niebuhr,
  • B. Manschwetus,
  • M. Kuhlmann,
  • T. Mazza,
  • M. S. Robinson,
  • R. J. Squibb,
  • A. Trabattoni,
  • M. Wallner,
  • P. Saalfrank,
  • T. J. A. Wolf,
  • M. Gühr

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27908-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

Read online

Imaging the charge flow in photoexcited molecules would provide key information on photophysical and photochemical processes. Here the authors demonstrate tracking in real time after photoexcitation the change in charge density at a specific site of 2-thiouracil using time-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.