Dynamics of anions: from bound to unbound states and everything In between

CJ Clarke, JRR Verlet - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Gas-phase anions present an ideal playground for the exploration of excited-state dynamics.
They offer control in terms of the mass, extent of solvation, internal temperature, and …

Photochemistry and photophysics at extended seams of conical intersection

L Blancafort - ChemPhysChem, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The role of extended seams of conical intersection in excited‐state mechanisms is reviewed.
Seams are crossings of the potential energy surface in many dimensions where the decay …

Low-energy shape resonances of a nucleobase in water

GA Cooper, CJ Clarke, JRR Verlet - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
When high-energy radiation passes through aqueous material, low-energy electrons are
produced which cause DNA damage. Electronic states of anionic nucleobases have been …

Role of polarization interactions in the formation of dipole-bound states

YR Zhang, DF Yuan, CH Qian, GZ Zhu… - Journal of the American …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Even though there is a critical dipole moment required to support a dipole-bound state
(DBS), how molecular polarizability may influence the formation of DBSs is not well …

Gas-phase femtosecond particle spectroscopy: a bottom-up approach to nucleotide dynamics

VG Stavros, JRR Verlet - Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 2016 - annualreviews.org
We summarize how gas-phase ultrafast charged-particle spectroscopy has been used to
provide an understanding of the photophysics of DNA building blocks. We focus on adenine …

Ultrafast dynamics of temporary anions probed through the prism of photodetachment

CS Anstöter, JN Bull, JRR Verlet - International Reviews in Physical …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The recently developed method of frequency-, angle-, and time-resolved photoelectron
imaging (FAT-PI) applied to the study of the dynamics of resonances of open-shell anions is …

Role of nonvalence states in the ultrafast dynamics of isolated anions

JRR Verlet, CS Anstoter, JN Bull… - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nonvalence states of neutral molecules (Rydberg states) play important roles in
nonadiabatic dynamics of excited states. In anions, such nonadiabatic transitions between …

The effect of solvation on electron capture revealed using anion two-dimensional photoelectron spectroscopy

A Lietard, G Mensa-Bonsu, JRR Verlet - Nature Chemistry, 2021 - nature.com
The reaction of low-energy electrons with neutral molecules to form anions plays an
important role in chemistry, being involved in, for example, various biological and …

Anion Resonances of para-Benzoquinone Probed by Frequency-Resolved Photoelectron Imaging

CW West, JN Bull, E Antonkov… - The Journal of Physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The resonant attachment of a free electron to a closed shell neutral molecule and the
interplay between the following electron detachment and electronic relaxation channels …

Excited state dynamics of the isolated green fluorescent protein chromophore anion following UV excitation

CW West, JN Bull, AS Hudson, SL Cobb… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
A combined frequency-, angle-, and time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy study is used
to unravel the excited state dynamics following UV excitation of the isolated anionic …