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Electron attachment dynamics following UV excitation of iodide-2-thiouracil complexes
Masafumi Koga1, Megan Asplund1, Daniel M Neumark1
1Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
Abstract:
The dynamics of low energy electron attachment to the thio-substituted uracil analog 2-thiouracil are investigated using time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy (TRPES) of iodide-2-thiouracil (I-·2TU) binary clusters. In these experiments, the anions are excited at pump energies of 4.16 and 4.73 eV, and the ensuing dynamics are probed by photodetachment at 1.59 and 3.18 eV. Upon excitation near the vertical detachment energy (4.16 eV), dipole bound (DB) and valence bound (VB) anion signals appear almost instantaneously, and the DB state of the 2TU anion undergoes an ultrafast decay (∼50 fs). At 4.73 eV, there is no evidence for a DB state, but features attributed to two VB states are seen. The transient negative ions formed by photoexcitation decay by autodetachment and I- fragmentation. The I- dissociation rates and their dependence on excitation energy agree reasonably well with the Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus calculations. Notable differences with respect to TRPES of the related iodide-uracil anion are observed and discussed.
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