Nanosecond TRIR spectroscopy

Although very detailed, fundamental information is available from ultrafast TRIR methods, significant expertise in femtosecond/picosecond spectroscopy is required to conduct such experiments. TRIR spectroscopy on the nanosecond or slower timescale is a more straightforward experiment. Here, mainly two alternatives exist step-scan FTIR spectroscopy and conventional pump-probe dispersive TRIR spectroscopy, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Commercial instruments for each of these approaches are currently available. 

Nanosecond time resolved infrared (TRIR) spectroscopy has recently become available to physical organic chemists. This spectroscopy is an attractive tool for studying carbonyl nitrenes. Such work is in progress in several laboratories ... 

The wealth of structural and kinetic information obtained from TRIR spectroscopy makes it a powerful tool for establishing important structure-reactivity relationships for short-lived reactive intermediates. As demonstrated by the investigations discussed in this review, recent technical advances have greatly expanded the applicability of this technique so that organic systems can now be routinely examined in the nanosecond timescale. As the necessary instrumentation becomes even more refined and easier to implement, application of TRIR spectroscopy to a range of photochemical and photobiological problems with... 

Time-Resolved IR Spectroscopy. More recently, time-resolved IR (TRIR) experiments have been used to characterize species with lifetimes of micro-and even nanoseconds. Since IR spectra provide structural information in more detail than UV, this technique will be more powerful than TRUV-vis if one can find a carbene that can be detected and studied by this technique. To date, however, only one carbene has been studied by using TRIR. The matrix IR study shows that the planar triplet and twisted singlet states of 2-naphthyl(methoxycartbonyl) carbenes (NMC, 17) show distinctly different IR bands (see Section 3.1.4). Both NMC and NMC are detected by TRIR in solution and their kinetics have been studied. Such experiments provide clear cut data for the reaction kinetics as well as energetics of both states (see Sections 4.2 and 4.3... 

Time-resolved Infrared spectroscopy (TRIR), a combination of UV flash photolysis and fast IR spectroscopy (ns), has been outstandingly successful in identifying reactive intermediates [5] and excited states [6] of metal carbonyl complexes in solution at room temperature. We have used infrared spectroscopy to probe the mechanism of photo-17] and electrochemical [8] catalytic reduction of COj. We have used TRIR to study organometallic reactions in supercritical fluids on a nanosecond time-scale [9-10]. 

The detection of short-lived transient species is often achieved by flash photolysis where an extremely short flash of UV/Vis radiation from a laser generates a high concentration of transient species, and a second probe beam monitors any changes that occur after the flash. Traditionally, UVA is spectroscopy has been used as a detection method. However, time-resolved infrared spectroscopy (TRIR), a combination of UV flash photolysis and fast IR detection, also has a long history. There are several different approaches to fast IR spectroscopy and the method of choice depends upon the timescale of the reaction. Measurements on the nanosecond to millisecond timescale are obtained using point-by-point techniques or by step-scan FTIR. In the point-by-point approach, a continuous wave IR laser (GO or diode) or globar is used as the IR source, which is tuned to one particular IR frequency (Figure 3). ... 

For the homoleptic compounds M02(O2CC6H4-p-X)4 (X=CsC-H or C=N), fs-TRIR studies showed that for the MLCT Si state the negative charge is delocalised over two tram ligands ligands. NIR emission and nanosecond transient absorption spectroscopy showed that the Ti states are MoMo88, with lifetimes of 56 (X = C=C-H) and 61 (X = C=N) ps. 

Kinetics of the reactions of singlet species 32b in solution at room temperature were studied using time-resolved IR spectroscopy (TRIR) " and nanosecond laser flash photolysis. The absolute rate constants of bimolecular reactions of 32b with... 

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