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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 13, Issue 21, Pages 10295-10305Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1cp20589g
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- EPSRC
- European Research Council
- STFC
- BBSRC [BB/E023290/1]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/E023290/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/D071011/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/D071011/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The vibrational dynamics of (mu-propanedithiolate)Fe-2(CO)(4)(CN)(2)(2-), a model compound of the active site of the [FeFe]-hydrogenase enzyme, have been examined via ultrafast 2D-IR spectroscopy. The results indicate that the vibrational coupling between the stretching modes of the CO and CN ligands is small and restricted to certain modes but the slow growth of off-diagonal peaks is assigned to population transfer processes occurring between these modes on timescales of 30-40 ps. Analysis of the dynamics in concert with anharmonic density functional theory simulations shows that the presence of CN ligands alters the vibrational relaxation dynamics of the CO modes in comparison to all-carbonyl model systems and suggests that the presence of these ligands in the enzyme may be an important feature in terms of directing the vibrational relaxation mechanism.
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