Henley, A;
Riley, J;
Wang, B;
Fielding, H;
(2019)
An experimental and computational study of the effect of aqueous solution on the multiphoton ionisation photoelectron spectrum of phenol.
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10.1039/c9fd00079h.
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Abstract
We revisit the photoelectron spectroscopy of aqueous phenol in an effort to improve our understanding of the impact of inhomogeneous broadening and inelastic scattering on solution-phase photoelectron spectra. Following resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionisation via the 1 1ππ∗ and 1 1πσ∗ states of phenol, we observe 1 1ππ∗ -D0/D1 ionisation and competing direct S0-D0/D1 ionisation. Following resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionisation via the 2 1ππ∗ state, we observe the signature of solvated electrons. By comparing the photoelectron spectra of aqueous phenol with those of gas-phase phenol, we find that inelastic scattering results in peak shifts with similar values to those that have been observed in photoelectron spectra of solvated electrons, highlighting the need for a robust way of deconvoluting the effect of inelastic scattering from liquid-phase photoelectron spectra. We also present a computational strategy for calculating vertical ionisation energies using a quantum-mechanics/effective fragmentation potential (QM/EFP) approach in which we find that optimising the configurations obtained from molecular dynamics simulations and using the [phenol ·(H2O)5]QM[(H2O)n≥250]EFP (B3LYP/aug-cc-pvdz) method gives good agreement with experiment.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | An experimental and computational study of the effect of aqueous solution on the multiphoton ionisation photoelectron spectrum of phenol |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c9fd00079h |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1039/c9fd00079h |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10080854 |
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