P4.2 Time-Resolved IR Spectroscopy
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Topic and overall goal:
The time-resolved infrared (TR-IR) spectroscopy will be used for unravelling the structure and character of transition metal (TM) complexes in transiently populated states. In photochemical reaction chains, short-lived species such as molecules in electronically excited states or energy rich ground state configurations are of particular interest to understand the underlying reaction mechanisms. However, their limited lifetime calls for methods with a high time resolution. We plan to build a vibrational spectroscopy setup with nanosecond resolution to address this point and to explore, for the systems studied in TP3, the structure and dynamics of electronically excited and transient ground state TM complexes as it was demonstrated earlier.