CONICAL INTERSECTION DYNAMICS IN CYCLOPENTADIENE

Huang, Lisa

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Title

CONICAL INTERSECTION DYNAMICS IN CYCLOPENTADIENE

Author(s)

Huang, Lisa

Contributor(s)

• Weber, Peter M.
• Kirrander, Adam
• Rolles, Daniel
• Rudenko, Artem
• Lopata, Kenneth
• Centurion, Martin
• Forbes, Ruaridh
• Cheng, Xinxin
• Liang, Mengning
• Minitti, Michael
• Phelps, Zane
• Simmermacher, Mats
• Carrascosa, Andrés M
• Bertram, Lauren
• Geiser, Joseph
• Northey, Thomas
• Crane, Stuart W
• Odate, Asami
• Goff, Nathan
• Ma, Lingyu

Issue Date

2023-06-19

Keyword(s)

Mini-symposium: Spectroscopy at Large-scale Facilities

Abstract

Photochemical reactions of cyclic organic molecules are commonly used in many biological systems, solar energy resources, synthetic materials, and pharmaceuticals. Though energetically unfavored, highly strained ring structures produced from photolysis are of particular interest because their reaction mechanisms, once fully understood, could be leveraged for synthetic methods. In particular, we are interested in studying cyclopentadiene (CP), a small organic molecule whose photochemical pathway involves an electrocyclic process to form highly strained ring products upon UV excitation. We performed ultrafast time-resolved, gas-phase X-ray scattering experiments on cyclopentadiene at the CXI endstation of LCLS to explore the structural dynamics as the reaction evolves through a set of conical intersections.

Publisher

International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy

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Text

Language

eng

Handle URL

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/122651

DOI

https://doi.org/10.15278/isms.2023.7175

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