Publications by Christian Bressler

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The authors report a femtosecond pump-probe study of photochem. of concd. aq. solns. of [Ru(bpy)3]2+, as a function of pump power (up to 2 TW/cm2) at 400 nm excitation. The transient absorption spectra in the 345-660 nm range up to 1 ns time delay enable t ...

We present a novel analysis of time-resolved extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectra based on the fitting of the experimental transients obtained from optical pump/x-ray probe experiments. We apply it to the analysis of picosecond EXAFS da ...

Changes in electronic structure are the source of structural modifications in photochem. and photobiol. processes, occurring at ultrafast time scales (between femto- and picosecond times). An original method to probe these changes based upon a pump probe m ...

A review. Time-resolved X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) spectroscopy with picosecond temporal resoln. is a new method to observe electronic and geometric structures of short-lived reaction intermediates. It combines an intense femtosecond laser sour ...

Structural changes of the Fe(II)-tris-bipyridine ([FeII(bpy)3]2+) complex induced by ultrashort pulse excitation and population of its short-lived (?0.6 ns) quintet high spin state were detected by picosecond x-ray absorption spectroscopy. The structural r ...

Describing the nature and structure of molecular excited states is important in order to understand their chemical reactivity and role as intermediates in photochemical reactions. The recent implementation of x-ray absorption spectroscopy in the ultrafast ...

Dizzy cooling: Femtosecond excitation of the singlet states of aqueous [FeII(bpy)3]2+ (bpy=2,2-bipyridine) leads to the formation of a vibrationally hot quintet state that exhibits wave-packet dynamics arising from a chelate-ring and bending mode. The vibr ...

Picosecond and femtosecond X-ray absorption spectroscopy is used to probe the changes of the solvent shell structure upon electron abstraction of aqueous iodide using an ultrashort laser pulse. The transient L-1,L-3 edge EXAFS at 50 ps time delay points to ...

The ultrafast relaxation of aq. Fe(II)-tris(bipyridine) upon excitation into the singlet metal-to-ligand charge-transfer band (1MLCT) was characterized by femtosecond fluorescence up-conversion and transient absorption (TA) studies. The fluorescence expt. ...

Metallica: A large contraction of the PtPt bond in the triplet excited state of the photoreactive [Pt2(P2O5H2)4]4- ion is determined by time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy (see picture). The strengthening of the PtPt interaction is accompanied by a ...

We describe an experimental setup, which measures transient chemical changes of photoexcited solutes in disordered systems via time-resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) with picosecond temporal resolution. The setup combines a femtosecond amplified ...

We present the first structural detn. of the Pt2(P2O5H2)44- anion in soln. by analyzing the extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectrum of the Pt LIII edge. The data could be fit with a simple model involving single and multiple scattering pa ...

The introduction of pump-probe techniques to the field of x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) has allowed the monitoring of both structural and electronic dynamics of disordered systems in the condensed phase with unprecedented accuracy, both in time and i ...

We report on the observation of the solvation shell rearrangement after abstraction of the electron from aq. I- in a laser pump/X-ray probe expt. by recording the X-ray absorption L1- and L3-edge spectra, 50 ps after laser excitation. The L1-edge spectra c ...

X-ray absorption spectroscopy is a powerful probe of mol. structure, but it has previously been too slow to track the earliest dynamics after photoexcitation. We investigated the ultrafast formation of the lowest quintet state of aq. iron(II) tris(bipyridi ...

The photoinduced energy and structural relaxation of aq. iron(II)-tris-bipyridine ([FeII(bpy)3]2+), upon excitation into its singlet metal-to-ligand charge transfer (1MLCT) band, and the population of its short-lived (?0.6 ns) high-spin excited state have ...

L2,3 x-ray absorption spectra of aq. [RuII(bpy)3]2+ were recorded in its ground and excited states, 50 ps after short pulse laser excitation. Significant changes in both the XANES (x-ray Near-Edge Absorption Structure) and the EXAFS (Extended x-ray Absorpt ...

A full multiple theor. model (MXAN) is applied to fit picosecond difference x-ray absorption spectra at the Ru L3 edge upon photoexcitation of aq. [RuII(bpy)3]2+. Fitting difference spectra allows an increase in sensitivity, such that slight structural cha ...

Femtosecond fluorescence-upconversion studies of aq. [Ru(bpy)3]2+ show a short-lived vibrationally hot emission of the singlet metal-to-ligand charge-transfer state, with an ultrafast intersystem crossing (~ 10 fs) to the triplet state at const. energy (th ...

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Photexcitation of Aqueous Ruthenium(II)-tris-(2,2'-bipyridine) with High-Intensity Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Structural analysis of ultrafast extended x-ray absorption fine structure with subpicometer spatial resolution : Application to spin crossover complexes

Time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Exploiting EXAFS and XANES for time-resolved molecular structures in liquids

Structural Determination of a Short-Lived Excited Iron(II) Complex by Picosecond X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

Retrieving photochemically active structures by time-resolved EXAFS spectroscopy

Vibrational coherences and relaxation in the high-spin state of aqueous [Fell(bpy)3]2+

Probing the Transition from Hydrophilic to Hydrophobic Solvation with Atomic Scale Resolution

Ultrafast Nonadiabatic Dynamics of [FeII(bpy)3]2+ in Solution

Structural determination of photochemically active diplatinum molecule by time-resolved EXAFS spectroscopy

Picosecond time-resolved X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of solvated organometallic complexes

EXAFS structural determination of the Pt2(P2O5H2)44- anion in solution

Time-resolved x-ray absorption spectroscopy: Watching atoms dance

Observation of the Solvent Shell Reorganization around Photoexcited Atomic Solutes by Picosecond X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

Femtosecond XANES Study of the Light-Induced Spin Crossover Dynamics in an Iron(II) Complex

Light-induced spin crossover probed by ultrafast optical and X-ray spectroscopies

Electronic and Molecular Structure of Photoexcited [RuII(bpy)3]2+ Probed by Picosecond X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy

A Full Multiple Scattering Model for the Analysis of Time-Resolved X-ray Difference Absorption Spectra

Broadband femtosecond fluorescence spectroscopy of [Ru(bpy)3]2+

Femtosecond and picosecond X-ray spectroscopy in chemical dynamics research