Recent progress in dissociative electron attachment: from diatomics to biomolecules

II Fabrikant, S Eden, NJ Mason, J Fedor - Advances in atomic, molecular …, 2017 - Elsevier
Dissociative electron attachment (DEA) processes occur in many important applied contexts,
particularly gas discharges, plasmas, biological systems, and astrophysical environments. In …

Dynamics of anions: from bound to unbound states and everything In between

CJ Clarke, JRR Verlet - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Gas-phase anions present an ideal playground for the exploration of excited-state dynamics.
They offer control in terms of the mass, extent of solvation, internal temperature, and …

Low-energy shape resonances of a nucleobase in water

GA Cooper, CJ Clarke, JRR Verlet - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
When high-energy radiation passes through aqueous material, low-energy electrons are
produced which cause DNA damage. Electronic states of anionic nucleobases have been …

Role of Polarization Interactions in the Formation of Dipole-Bound States

YR Zhang, DF Yuan, CH Qian, GZ Zhu… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Even though there is a critical dipole moment required to support a dipole-bound state
(DBS), how molecular polarizability may influence the formation of DBSs is not well …

Mode-specific vibrational autodetachment following excitation of electronic resonances by electrons and photons

CS Anstöter, G Mensa-Bonsu, P Nag, M Ranković… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Electronic resonances commonly decay via internal conversion to vibrationally hot anions
and subsequent statistical electron emission. We observed vibrational structure in such an …

Time-resolved radiation chemistry: femtosecond photoelectron spectroscopy of electron attachment and photodissociation dynamics in iodide–nucleobase clusters

A Kunin, DM Neumark - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Iodide–nucleobase (I−· N) clusters studied by time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy
(TRPES) are an opportune model system for examining radiative damage of DNA induced …

The effect of solvation on electron capture revealed using anion two-dimensional photoelectron spectroscopy

A Lietard, G Mensa-Bonsu, JRR Verlet - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
The reaction of low-energy electrons with neutral molecules to form anions plays an
important role in chemistry, being involved in, for example, various biological and …

Role of nonvalence states in the ultrafast dynamics of isolated anions

JRR Verlet, CS Anstoter, JN Bull… - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nonvalence states of neutral molecules (Rydberg states) play important roles in
nonadiabatic dynamics of excited states. In anions, such nonadiabatic transitions between …

Reaction dynamics of the nonvalence bound states of the anions

DH Kang, SK Kim - Chemical Physics Reviews, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Nonvalence bound state (NBS) is a unique anionic state where an excess electron is loosely
bound to a neutral molecule in long-range potentials. Since Fermi and Teller first proposed …

Resonances in nitrobenzene probed by the electron attachment to neutral and by the photodetachment from anion

M Ranković, P Nag, CS Anstöter… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We probe resonances (transient anions) in nitrobenzene with the focus on the electron
emission from these. Experimentally, we populate resonances in two ways: either by the …