Ultrafast Proton Transfer Pathways Mediated by Imidazole

Authors :: Marius-Andrei Codescu
Moritz Weiß
Martin Brehm
Oleg Kornilov
Daniel Sebastiani
Erik T. J. Nibbering
Source :: The International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2022.
Publication Year :: 2022
Publisher :: Optica Publishing Group, 2022.
Abstract: We explore with ultrafast infrared spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations how imidazole, an amphoteric molecule that can act both as acid and as base, provides alternate proton transfer pathways in the tautomerization reaction of 7-hydroxyquinoline.