Conveners
Chemistry
- Philippe Wernet (HZB)
The results were taken by the SLAC UED collaboration and LCLS Nucleobase collaboration (see author lists of publications below).
In this talk, I will present molecular dynamics obtained by diffraction of relativistic electrons exemplified on the rotational and vibrational modes of small model systems [1,2]. The results have been obtained at a new femtosecond ultrafast electron diffraction...
Time-resolved x-ray tools allow measuring electronic and geometric structure changes. X-Ray emission spectroscopy is sensitive to electronic changes, such as oxidation and spin states, while x-ray absorption fine structure tools deliver information about the local geometric structure around the selected absorbing atom. Combining these tools with forward scattering in one single setup allows to...
Time-resolved x-ray absorption near edge structure (TR-XANES)1 is one of most promising applications of X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs): X-ray absorption measurements combining XFELs and synchronized optical lasers enable one to probe ultrafast changes in the electronic states and the local structure around the absorbing atom during photoreactions.
Here, we report on our recent TR-XANES...
Potential energy surfaces play the central role for understanding molecular and chemical dynamics. For chemical reactions on the electronic ground state potential, transition state theory usually provides a strong foundation for understanding chemical reactivity because intra-well equilibration precedes chemical reaction and reactive trajectories proceed along adiabatic trajectories through...
