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    Ultrafast dynamics of formation and autodetachment of a dipole-bound state in an open-shell pi-stacked dimer anion

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    Bull, JN; West, CW; Verlet, JRR
    Date
    2016-01-01
    Source Title
    Chemical Science
    Publisher
    ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Bull, James
    Affiliation
    School of Chemistry
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    Bull, J. N., West, C. W. & Verlet, J. R. R. (2016). Ultrafast dynamics of formation and autodetachment of a dipole-bound state in an open-shell pi-stacked dimer anion. CHEMICAL SCIENCE, 7 (8), pp.5352-5361. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6sc01062h.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/258379
    DOI
    10.1039/c6sc01062h
    Abstract
    Isolated π-stacked dimer radical anions present the simplest model of an excess electron in a π-stacked environment. Here, frequency-, angle-, and time-resolved photoelectron imaging together with electronic structure calculations have been used to characterise the π-stacked coenzyme Q0 dimer radical anion and its exited state dynamics. In the ground electronic state, the excess electron is localised on one monomer with a planar para-quinone ring, which is solvated by the second monomer in which carbonyl groups are bent out of the para-quinone ring plane. Through the π-stacking interaction, the dimer anion exhibits a number of charge-transfer (intermolecular) valence-localised resonances situated in the detachment continuum that undergo efficient internal conversion to a cluster dipole-bound state (DBS) on a ∼60 fs timescale. In turn, the DBS undergoes vibration-mediated autodetachment on a 2.0 ± 0.2 ps timescale. Experimental vibrational structure and supporting calculations assign the intermolecular dynamics to be facilitated by vibrational wagging modes of the carbonyl groups on the non-planar monomer. At photon energies ∼0.6-1.0 eV above the detachment threshold, a competition between photoexcitation of an intermolecular resonance leading to the DBS, and photoexcitation of an intramolecular resonance leading to monomer-like dynamics further illustrates the π-stacking specific dynamics. Overall, this study provides the first direct observation of both internal conversion of resonances into a DBS, and characterisation of a vibration-mediated autodetachment in real-time.

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