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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A
Volume 125, Issue 33, Pages 7174-7184Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c04893
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/P001459/1, EP/R030448/1, EP/T021675/1, EP/V006746/1]
- Heriot-Watt University
- EPSRC [EP/R030448/1, EP/P001459/1, EP/T021675/1, EP/V006746/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Time-resolved photoelectron imaging was used to study nonadiabatic processes in excited states of nitrobenzene and methyl-substituted derivatives. Results showed that the torsional angle between NO2 group and benzene ring plane plays a crucial role in vibrationally hot ground state dynamics, and differences in NO vs NO2 elimination pathways are mainly influenced by steric effects.
Time-resolved photoelectron imaging was used to investigate nonadiabatic processes operating in the excited electronic states of nitrobenzene and three methyl-substituted derivatives: 3,5-, 2,6-, and 2,4-dimethylnitrobenzene. The primary goal was evaluating the dynamical impact of the torsional angle between the NO2 group and the benzene ring plane-something previously implicated in mediating the propensity for branching into different photodissociation pathways (NO vs NO2 elimination). Targeted, photoinitiated release of NO radicals is of interest for clinical medicine applications, and there is a need to establish basic structure-dynamics-function principles in systematically varied model systems following photoexcitation. Within our 200 ps experimental detection window, we observed no significant differences in the excited-state lifetimes exhibited by all species under study using a 267 nm pump and ionization with an intense 400 nm probe. In agreement with previous theoretical predictions, this suggests that the initial energy redistribution dynamics within the singlet and triplet manifolds are driven by motions localized predominantly on the NO2 group. Our findings also imply that both NO and NO2 elimination occur from a vibrationally hot ground state on extended (nanosecond) timescales, and any variations in NO vs NO2 branching upon site-selective methylation are due to steric effects influencing isomerization prior to dissociation.
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