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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 117, Issue 16, Pages 4216-4221Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp303591h
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-0741804, CHE-0908548]
- Division Of Chemistry [0908548] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We examine the ultrafast relaxation dynamics of excess electrons injected into liquid acetonitrile using air- and water-free techniques and compare our results to previous work on this system [Xia, C. et al. J. chem. phys. 2002, 117, 8855]. Excess electrons in liquid acetonitrile take on two forms: a traditional solvated electron that absorbs in the near-IR, and a solvated molecular dimer anion that absorbs weakly in the visible. We find that excess electrons initially produced via charge-transfer-to-solvent excitation of iodide prefer to localize as solvated electrons, but that there is a subsequent equilibration to form the dimer anion on an similar to 80 ps time scale. The spectral signature of this interconversion between the two forms of the excess electron is a clear isosbestic point. The presence of the isosbestic point makes it possible to fully deconvolute the spectra of the two species. We find that solvated molecular anion absorbs quite weakly, with a maximum extinction coefficient of similar to 2000 M(-1)cm(-1). With the extinction coefficient of the dimer anion in hand, we are also able to determine the equilibrium constant for the two forms of excess electron, and find that the molecular anion is favored by a factor of similar to 4. We also find that relatively little geminate recombination takes place, and that the geminate recombination that does take place is essentially complete within the first 20 ps. Finally, we show that the presence of small amounts of water in the acetonitrile can have a fairly large effect on the observed spectral dynamics, explaining the differences between our results and those in previously published work.
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