Time-resolving the ultrafast H2 roaming chemistry and H3                             + formation using extreme-ultraviolet pulses

Ester Livshits; Itamar Luzon; Krishnendu Gope; Roi Baer; Daniel Strasser

doi:10.1038/s42004-020-0294-1

Time-resolving the ultrafast H₂ roaming chemistry and H₃ ⁺ formation using extreme-ultraviolet pulses

Ester Livshits, Itamar Luzon, Krishnendu Gope, Roi Baer, Daniel Strasser^*

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Institute of Chemistry

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Abstract

The time scales and formation mechanisms of tri-hydrogen cation products in organic molecule ionization processes are poorly understood, despite their cardinal role in the chemistry of the interstellar medium and in other chemical systems. Using an ultrafast extreme-ultraviolet pump and time-resolved near-IR probe, combined with high-level ab initio molecular dynamics calculations, here we report unambiguously that H₃ ⁺ formation in double-ionization of methanol occurs on a sub 100 fs time scale, settling previous conflicting findings of strong-field Coulomb explosion experiments. Our combined experimental–computational studies suggest that ultrafast competition, between proton-transfer and long-range electron-transfer processes, determines whether the roaming neutral H₂ dynamics on the dication result in H3+ or H2+ fragments respectively.

Original language	American English
Article number	49
Journal	Communications Chemistry
Volume	3
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-020-0294-1
State	Published - 1 Dec 2020

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E.L. and R.B. gratefully thank Drs. Toru Shiozaki (Northwestern University) and Igor Schapiro (Hebrew University) for their advice and help in setting up and using the BAGEL code. We acknowledge funding from the ERC grant #306783 and ISF grants #1369/17 189/14 as well as funding from the Wolfson foundation.

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Time-resolving the ultrafast H₂ roaming chemistry and H₃ ⁺ formation using extreme-ultraviolet pulses

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