Publication Date:
2005-07-16
Description:
We report direct structural evidence of the bridged radical (CH2ICH2.) in a polar solution, obtained using time-resolved liquid-phase x-ray diffraction. This transient intermediate has long been hypothesized to explain stereo-chemical control in many association and/or dissociation reactions involving haloalkanes. Ultrashort optical pulses were used to dissociate an iodine atom from the haloethane molecule (C2H4I2) dissolved in methanol, and the diffraction of picosecond x-ray pulses from a synchrotron supports the following structural dynamics, with approximately 0.01 angstrom spatial resolution and approximately 100 picosecond time resolution: The loss of one iodine atom from C2H4I2 leads to the C-I-C triangular geometry of CH2ICH2.. This transient C2H4I then binds to an iodine atom to form a new species, the C2H4I-I isomer, which eventually decays into C2H4 + I2. Solvent dynamics were also extracted from the data, revealing a change in the solvent cage geometry, heating, and thermal expansion.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ihee, H -- Lorenc, M -- Kim, T K -- Kong, Q Y -- Cammarata, M -- Lee, J H -- Bratos, S -- Wulff, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Aug 19;309(5738):1223-7. Epub 2005 Jul 14.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry and School of Molecular Science (BK21), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 305-701, Republic of Korea. hyotcherl.ihee@kaist.ac.kr〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16020695" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Computer Simulation
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Free Radicals
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Hydrocarbons, Iodinated/*chemistry
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Isomerism
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Methanol/chemistry
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Molecular Structure
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Scattering, Radiation
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Solutions
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Solvents/chemistry
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Synchrotrons
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Temperature
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Thermodynamics
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Time Factors
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X-Ray Diffraction/*methods
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X-Rays
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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