Dr. Rafal Kania


Application of ultrafast 2D-IR Spectroscopy to metalcarbonyls: photochemistry and isomerisation
dynamics in solution.


Abstract:

The presentation discusses principles and advancement in femtosecond one-/two-dimensional infrared
spectroscopies followed by detailed studies of vibrational relaxation and ground/excited state
chemical dynamics of selected metalcarbonyls in solution. The femtosecond one-dimensional
time-resolved infrared or UV[pump]-IR[probe] technique was applied to investigate photochemistry of
hydrogenase active centre model compound in series of organic solvents while the two-dimensional
infrared spectroscopy (2D-IR) and related Transient 2D-IR technique has been applied to study
ground state conformational isomerisation and photochemistry of [(nPr‑Cp)W(CO)[3]][2] dimer in
n-heptane.