Ultrafast isomerization initiated by X-ray core ionization.

Liekhus-Schmaltz, C. E.; Tenney, I.; Osipov, T.; Sanchez-Gonzalez, A.; Berrah, N.; Boll, R.; Bomme, C.; Bostedt, C.; Bozek, J. D.; Carron, S.; Coffee, R.; Devin, J.; Erk, B.; Ferguson, K. R.; Field, R. W.; Foucar, L.; Frasinski, L. J.; Glownia, J. M.; Gühr, M.; Kamalov, A.; Krzywinski, J.; Li, H.; Marangos, J. P.; Martinez, T. J.; McFarland, B. K.; Miyabe, S.; Murphy, B.; Natan, A.; Rolles, D.; Rudenko, A.; Siano, M.; Simpson, E. R.; Spector, L.; Swiggers, M.; Walke, D.; Wang, S.; Weber, T.; Bucksbaum, P. H.; Petrovic, V. S.

doi:10.1038/ncomms9199

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Ultrafast isomerization initiated by X-ray core ionization.

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Boll, R.
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Liekhus-Schmaltz, C. E., Tenney, I., Osipov, T., Sanchez-Gonzalez, A., Berrah, N., Boll, R., et al. (2015). Ultrafast isomerization initiated by X-ray core ionization. Nature Communications, 6: 8199. doi:10.1038/ncomms9199.

Zitierlink: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002C-017F-C

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Rapid proton migration is a key process in hydrocarbon photochemistry. Charge migration and subsequent proton motion can mitigate radiation damage when heavier atoms absorb X-rays. If rapid enough, this can improve the fidelity of diffract-before-destroy measurements of biomolecular structure at X-ray-free electron lasers. Here we study X-ray-initiated isomerization of acetylene, a model for proton dynamics in hydrocarbons. Our time-resolved measurements capture the transient motion of protons following X-ray ionization of carbon K-shell electrons. We Coulomb-explode the molecule with a second precisely delayed X-ray pulse and then record all the fragment momenta. These snapshots at different delays are combined into a ‘molecular movie’ of the evolving molecule, which shows substantial proton redistribution within the first 12 fs. We conclude that significant proton motion occurs on a timescale comparable to the Auger relaxation that refills the K-shell vacancy.