From Femtosecond Excited-State and Dissociation Dynamics to Nanosecond Reaction Kinetics: Following C-H Bond Activation with X-rays

Authors :: Raphael M. Jay
Ambar Banerjee
Torsten Leitner
Robert Stefanuik
Ru-Pan Wang
Jessica Harich
Emma Beale
Victoria Kabanova
Abdullah Kahraman
Anna Wach
Dimitri Ozerov
Christopher A. Arrell
Philip J. M. Johnson
Grigory Smolentsev
Thomas Huthwelker
Camilia N. Borca
Claudio Cirelli
Camila Bacellar
Christopher J. Milne
Nils Huse
Michael Odelius
Philippe Wernet
Source :: The International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2022.
Publication Year :: 2022
Publisher :: Optica Publishing Group, 2022.
Abstract: Using ultrafast X-ray absorption spectroscopy, we observe how a rhodium carbonyl catalyst is formed on femtosecond timescales and reveal the decisive orbital interactions which facilitate the efficient cleavage of an alkane C-H bond from solution.

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