Picosecond pulse radiolysis study of dynamics of solvation of electron and fluorenone anion in primary alcohols

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
Dipak K PalitJean-Louis Marignier

Abstract

We have studied the dynamics of solvation of electron injected directly into primary alcohols as well as that of fluorenone anion using pulse radiolysis technique with the time resolution of about 15 ps. Unlike in the previous reports, we observe nonexponential dynamics of both electron and anion solvation. While the ultrafast component, τ1 (<15 ps) representing the inertial time scale of the dynamics is faster than the time resolution of the spectrometer, the slower component, τ2, has been assigned to the translational motion leading to structural changes of the hydrogen bonding network of the solvent in the inner solvation cell or alcohol cluster. τ2 agrees well with the electron solvation times reported by the earlier authors. τ3 is associated with the restructuring of the hydrogen bond network structure of the solvent in the region outside the solvation cell. Nonexponential solvation dynamics of the fluorenone anion has been described well by a two-component process. The most important observation in this work is that the lifetime of the shorter component, τ1, determined in four alcoholic solvents, is much longer than the electron solvation time in the corresponding solvents determined in this work or anion solvation time r...Continue Reading

References

Jul 13, 2006·The Journal of Physical Chemistry. a·Vaishali SamantDipak K Palit
Nov 11, 2011·Accounts of Chemical Research·Guang-Jiu Zhao, Ke-Li Han

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