Communications Chemistry (Aug 2022)

LED-pump-X-ray-multiprobe crystallography for sub-second timescales

  • Lauren E. Hatcher,
  • Mark R. Warren,
  • Jonathan M. Skelton,
  • Anuradha R. Pallipurath,
  • Lucy K. Saunders,
  • David R. Allan,
  • Paul Hathaway,
  • Giulio Crevatin,
  • David Omar,
  • Ben H. Williams,
  • Ben A. Coulson,
  • Chick C. Wilson,
  • Paul R. Raithby

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-022-00716-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Time-resolved single-crystal X-ray diffraction experiments largely focus on timescales shorter than microseconds, whereby slower population dynamics are missed. Here, the authors resolve the 3D structures of photoexcited solid-state species with millisecond-to-minute lifetimes using pump-multiprobe SCXRD.