IBS CMSD Seminar_Dr. Sohn So Hyeong (IBS CMSD)(May 20, 2020)
IBS Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics
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SPEAKER
Dr. Sohn So Hyeong
(IBS CMSD)
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TITLE
Bond formation dynamics of dicyanoaurate in the excited state
■ ABSTRACT
Because the chemical bond formation and
breaking play crucial roles in determining the characteristics of the material,
it is necessary to identify the simple but decisive process to understand the
chemical reactions. Gold complexes, the suitable system for observing bond
formation dynamics, have attracted great attention from many researchers for
its nature, aurophilicity, making gold atoms aggregate themselves. A trimer of
dicyanoaurate ([Au(CN)2-]3) is non-covalently bound in the ground state as
other gold complexes and has a loose and bent structure. Upon photoexcitation,
however, structural changes including bond contraction occur, resulting in a
tight and linear staggered structure with covalent bonds in the excited state.
Time-resolved spectroscopy has been regarded as one of the best techniques, enabling to track the bond formation dynamics upon photoexcitation in real time. The femtosecond time-resolved luminescence (TL) was employed, which provides exact elucidation by obtaining the excited state dynamics of [Au(CN)2-]3 in the S1 state selectively without further signal reconstruction to derive a final conclusion of the bond formation process. Indeed, it was successfully clarified that the bond formation process using the precisely obtained reaction time constants and the coherent wave packet oscillation with high time resolution. Upon photoexcitation to S1, the intersystem crossing occurs within <20 fs due tothe large spin-orbit coupling followed by the structural change in 1.5 ps.Subsequently, the higher oligomer is formed within 1 ns. TL and TL spectrareveal a strong coherent excitation of the symmetric Au–Au stretching vibrationat 74 cm-1 through the non-Condon effect.
■ DATE AND VENUE
May 20, 2020 (Wednesday, 5:00 - 6:00)
Seminar Room B (119), KU R&D Center
■ LANGUAGE
Korean