Hot Branching Dynamics in a Light-Harvesting Iron Carbene Complex Revealed by Ultrafast X-ray Emission Spectroscopy

Hideyuki Tatsuno, Kasper S. Kjær, Kristjan Kunnus, Tobias C.B. Harlang, Cornelia Timm, Meiyuan Guo, Pavel Chàbera, Lisa A. Fredin, Robert W. Hartsock, Marco E. Reinhard, Sergey Koroidov, Lin Li, Amy A. Cordones, Olga Gordivska, Om Prakash, Yizhu Liu, Mads G. Laursen, Elisa Biasin, Frederik B. Hansen, Peter VesterMorten Christensen, Kristoffer Haldrup, Zoltán Németh, Dorottya Sárosiné Szemes, Éva Bajnóczi, György Vankó, Tim B. Van Driel, Roberto Alonso-Mori, James M. Glownia, Silke Nelson, Marcin Sikorski, Henrik T. Lemke, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Sophie E. Canton, Asmus O. Dohn, Klaus B. Møller, Martin M. Nielsen, Kelly J. Gaffney, Kenneth Wärnmark, Villy Sundström, Petter Persson, Jens Uhlig

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Sammanfattning

Iron N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) complexes have received a great deal of attention recently because of their growing potential as light sensitizers or photocatalysts. We present a sub-ps X-ray spectroscopy study of an FeIINHC complex that identifies and quantifies the states involved in the deactivation cascade after light absorption. Excited molecules relax back to the ground state along two pathways: After population of a hot 3MLCT state, from the initially excited 1MLCT state, 30 % of the molecules undergo ultrafast (150 fs) relaxation to the 3MC state, in competition with vibrational relaxation and cooling to the relaxed 3MLCT state. The relaxed 3MLCT state then decays much more slowly (7.6 ps) to the 3MC state. The 3MC state is rapidly (2.2 ps) deactivated to the ground state. The 5MC state is not involved in the deactivation pathway. The ultrafast partial deactivation of the 3MLCT state constitutes a loss channel from the point of view of photochemical efficiency and highlights the necessity to screen transition-metal complexes for similar ultrafast decays to optimize photochemical performance.

Originalspråkengelska
Sidor (från-till)364-372
TidskriftAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volym59
Nummer1
Tidigt onlinedatum2019 okt. 10
DOI
StatusPublished - 2020

Ämnesklassifikation (UKÄ)

  • Atom- och molekylfysik och optik
  • Teoretisk kemi

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