Using X-ray free-electron lasers for spectroscopy of molecular catalysts and metalloenzymes

U Bergmann, J Kern, RW Schoenlein, P Wernet… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The metal centres in metalloenzymes and molecular catalysts are responsible for the
rearrangement of atoms and electrons during complex chemical reactions, and they enable …

Simulating coherent multidimensional spectroscopy of nonadiabatic molecular processes: From the infrared to the x-ray regime

M Kowalewski, BP Fingerhut, KE Dorfman… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Crossings of electronic potential energy surfaces in nuclear configuration space, known as
conical intersections, determine the rates and outcomes of a large class of photochemical …

Ultrafast spectroscopy of photoactive molecular systems from first principles: Where we stand today and where we are going

I Conti, G Cerullo, A Nenov… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Computational spectroscopy is becoming a mandatory tool for the interpretation of the
complex, and often congested, spectral maps delivered by modern non-linear multi-pulse …

Vibronic fine structure in the nitrogen photoelectron spectra from Franck-Condon simulation. II. Indoles

M Wei, L Zhang, G Tian, W Hua - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
The vibronic coupling effect in nitrogen 1 s x-ray photoelectron spectra was systematically
studied for a family of 17 bicyclic indole molecules by combining Franck-Condon simulations …

A QM/MM study on the x-ray spectra of organic proton transfer crystals of isonicotinamides

G Ge, JR Zhang, SY Wang, M Wei… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proton transfer (PT) in organic crystals creates localized charges and strong hydrogen
bonding (HB), making the self-consistent field (SCF) calculation of core-ionized and core …

Overview of options for generating high-brightness attosecond x-ray pulses at free-electron lasers and applications at the European XFEL

S Serkez, G Geloni, S Tomin, G Feng… - Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The generation of attosecond, highbrightness x-ray pulses is a matter of great interest given
their applications in the study of ultra-fast processes. In recent years, the production of x-ray …

Interpreting the Cu–O2 Antibonding Nature in Two Cu–O2 Complexes from Cu L-Edge X-ray Absorption Spectra

SY Wang, JR Zhang, M Guo, W Hua - Inorganic Chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cu–O2 structures play important roles in bioinorganic chemistry and enzyme catalysis,
where the bonding between the Cu and O2 parts serves as a fundamental research …

MCNOX: A code for computing and interpreting ultrafast nonlinear X-ray spectra of molecules at the multiconfigurational level

W Hua - Computer Physics Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
This work describes a program for computing and analyzing the ultrafast (attosecond and
femtosecond) nonlinear X-ray spectra of molecules at the multiconfigurational quantum …

Multi-reference approach to the computation of double core-hole spectra

BNC Tenorio, P Decleva, S Coriani - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Double Core-Hole (DCH) states of small molecules are assessed with the restricted active
space self-consistent field and multi-state restricted active space perturbation theory of …

Multidimensional resonant nonlinear spectroscopy with coherent broadband x-ray pulses

K Bennett, Y Zhang, M Kowalewski, W Hua… - Physica …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
New x-ray free electron laser (XFEL) and high harmonic generation (HHG) light sources are
capable of generating short and intense pulses that make x-ray nonlinear spectroscopy …