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Molecular Conformation and Organic Photochemistry

Time-resolved Photoionization Studies

  • Nominated by the University of Copenhagen as outstanding thesis
  • Investigates how molecular rearrangements and chemical reactions compete on different time-scales after photo-excitation
  • Explores with a great variety of methods unknown ways of energy transfer trough conformational changes or chemical reactivity
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Ultrafast Photochemistry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. Ultrafast photochemistry

    1. Introduction

      • Rasmus Y. Brogaard
      Pages 3-5
    2. A Time-Resolved Probing Method: Photoionization

      • Rasmus Y. Brogaard
      Pages 23-33
  4. Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 35-35
  5. Experiments

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
    2. Experimental Setups

      • Rasmus Y. Brogaard
      Pages 65-73
    3. Paracyclophanes II: The Paternò-Büchi Reaction

      • Rasmus Y. Brogaard
      Pages 89-102
  6. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 115-115
    2. Summarizing Discussion

      • Rasmus Y. Brogaard
      Pages 117-120
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 121-122

About this book

Rasmus Brogaard's thesis digs into the fundamental issue of how the shape of a molecule relates to its photochemical reactivity. This relation is drastically different from that of ground-state chemistry, since lifetimes of excited states are often comparable to or even shorter than the time scales of conformational changes. Combining theoretical and experimental efforts in femto-second time-resolved photoionization Rasmus Brogaard finds that a requirement for an efficient photochemical reaction is the prearrangement of the constituents in a reactive conformation.
Furthermore, he is able to show that by exploiting a strong ionic interaction between two chromophores, a coherent molecular motion can be induced and probed in real-time. This way of using bichromophoric interactions provides a promising strategy for future research on conformational dynamics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Catalysis, Department of Chemical Engineering, SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and, Stanford, USA

    Rasmus Y. Brogaard

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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