H2 formation via non-Born-Oppenheimer hydrogen migration in photoionized ethane

Y Yang, H Ren, M Zhang, S Zhou, X Mu, X Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Neutral H2 formation via intramolecular hydrogen migration in hydrocarbon molecules plays
a vital role in many chemical and biological processes. Here, employing cold target recoil …

Electron scattering processes: fundamentals, challenges, advances, and opportunities

S Ptasinska, MTN Varella, MA Khakoo… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
Much effort has been devoted to describing qualitatively and quantitatively electron
scattering processes due to their ever-increasing importance in many industrial and medical …

Roadmap on dynamics of molecules and clusters in the gas phase

H Zettergren, A Domaracka, T Schlathölter… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
This roadmap article highlights recent advances, challenges and future prospects in studies
of the dynamics of molecules and clusters in the gas phase. It comprises nineteen …

Multiparticle cumulant mapping for Coulomb explosion imaging

C Cheng, LJ Frasinski, G Moğol, F Allum, AJ Howard… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We extend covariance velocity map ion imaging to four particles, establishing cumulant
mapping and allowing for measurements that provide insights usually associated with …

Ultrafast roaming mechanisms in ethanol probed by intense extreme ultraviolet free-electron laser radiation: electron transfer versus proton transfer

E Wang, NG Kling, AC LaForge, R Obaid… - The journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ultrafast H2+ and H3+ formation from ethanol is studied using pump-probe spectroscopy
with an extreme ultraviolet (XUV) free-electron laser. The first pulse creates a dication …

An “inverse” harpoon mechanism

K Gope, E Livshits, DM Bittner, R Baer, D Strasser - Science Advances, 2022 - science.org
Electron-transfer reactions are ubiquitous in chemistry and biology. The electrons' quantum
nature allows their transfer across long distances. For example, in the well-known harpoon …

What is the Mechanism of H3+ Formation from Cyclopropane?

S Kwon, S Sandhu, M Shaik, J Stamm… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We examine the possibility that three hydrogen atoms in one plane of the cyclopropane
dication come together in a concerted “ring-closing” mechanism to form H3+, a crucial cation …

Synthesis of two-dimensional plasmonic molybdenum oxide nanomaterials by femtosecond laser irradiation

F Ye, D Chang, A Ayub, K Ibrahim, A Shahin… - Chemistry of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A novel process to synthesize plasmonic MoO3–X nanosheets is demonstrated, in which
MoS2 powders suspended in ethanol/water are irradiated with pulses from a femtosecond …

Filming ultrafast roaming-mediated isomerization of bismuth triiodide in solution

EH Choi, JG Kim, J Kim, H Ki, Y Lee, S Lee… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Roaming reaction, defined as a reaction yielding products via reorientational motion in the
long-range region (3–8 Å) of the potential, is a relatively recently proposed reaction pathway …

Role of the Environment in Quenching the Production of from Dicationic Clusters of Methanol

E Wang, X Ren, A Dorn - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Ionization and subsequent isomerization of organic molecules has been suggested as an
important source of trihydrogen H 3+ cations in outer space. The high interest in such …