Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Acetylacetone photodynamics at a seeded free-electron laser

  • R. J. Squibb,
  • M. Sapunar,
  • A. Ponzi,
  • R. Richter,
  • A. Kivimäki,
  • O. Plekan,
  • P. Finetti,
  • N. Sisourat,
  • V. Zhaunerchyk,
  • T. Marchenko,
  • L. Journel,
  • R. Guillemin,
  • R. Cucini,
  • M. Coreno,
  • C. Grazioli,
  • M. Di Fraia,
  • C. Callegari,
  • K. C. Prince,
  • P. Decleva,
  • M. Simon,
  • J. H. D. Eland,
  • N. Došlić,
  • R. Feifel,
  • M. N. Piancastelli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02478-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The first steps in photochemical processes involve changes in electronic and geometric structure on extremely short timescales. Here, the authors report femtosecond dynamics in prototypical acetylacetone, by pump-probe photoexcitation-photoemission experiments and static and dynamics calculations.