Gas-phase femtosecond particle spectroscopy: a bottom-up approach to nucleotide dynamics

VG Stavros, JRR Verlet - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2016 - annualreviews.org
We summarize how gas-phase ultrafast charged-particle spectroscopy has been used to
provide an understanding of the photophysics of DNA building blocks. We focus on adenine …

Attosecond core-level absorption spectroscopy reveals the electronic and nuclear dynamics of molecular ring opening

S Severino, KM Ziems, M Reduzzi, A Summers… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
We show that attosecond core-level spectroscopy is a powerful tool for investigating
molecular dynamics due to its combined attosecond temporal resolution and the broad …

Photoinduced heterocyclic ring opening of furfural: Distinct open-chain product identification by ultrafast X-ray transient absorption spectroscopy

A Bhattacherjee, K Schnorr, S Oesterling… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The ultraviolet-induced photochemistry of five-membered heterocyclic rings often involves
ring opening as a prominent excited-state relaxation pathway. The identification of this …

[HTML][HTML] Involvement of a low-lying Rydberg state in the ultrafast relaxation dynamics of ethylene

EG Champenois, NH Shivaram, TW Wright… - The Journal of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We present a measurement of the time-resolved photoelectron kinetic energy spectrum of
ethylene using 156 nm and 260 nm laser pulses. The 156 nm pulse first excites ethylene to …

Time-resolved Coulomb explosion imaging unveils ultrafast ring opening of furan

E Wang, S Bhattacharyya, K Chen, K Borne… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Following the changes in molecular structure throughout the entirety of a chemical reaction
with atomic resolution is a long-term goal in femtochemistry. Although the development of a …

Multistep intersystem crossing pathways in cinnamate-based UV-B sunscreens

K Yamazaki, Y Miyazaki, Y Harabuchi… - The Journal of …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The nonradiative decay pathways of jet-cooled para-methoxy methylcinnamate (p-MMC)
and para-methoxy ethylcinnamate (p-MEC) have been investigated by picosecond pump …

Time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy studies of isoxazole and oxazole

T Geng, J Ehrmaier, O Schalk… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The excited state relaxation pathways of isoxazole and oxazole upon excitation with UV-light
were investigated by nonadiabatic ab initio dynamics simulations and time-resolved …

Substituent effects on the relaxation dynamics of furan, furfural and β-furfural: a combined theoretical and experimental approach

S Oesterling, O Schalk, T Geng, RD Thomas… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
For the series furan, furfural and β-furfural we investigated the effect of substituents and their
positioning on the photoinduced relaxation dynamics in a combined theoretical and …

Signatures of conical intersection dynamics in the time-resolved photoelectron spectrum of furan: Theoretical modeling with an ensemble density functional theory …

M Filatov, S Lee, H Nakata, CH Choi - International Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The non-adiabatic dynamics of furan excited in the ππ* state (S2 in the Franck–Condon
geometry) was studied using non-adiabatic molecular dynamics simulations in connection …

Signatures of Conical Intersections in Extreme Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectra of Furan Measured with 15 fs Time Resolution

R Uenishi, A Boyer, S Karashima… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ultrafast internal conversion of furan upon deep UV excitation at 200 nm is studied by using
extreme ultraviolet time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy with a time resolution of 15 fs …