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Selective Bond Breaking of HOD by Nonresonant Infrared Pulse Trains and a Delayed Ultraviolet Pulse

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Wen-Quan Jing
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Zhaopeng Sun
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Song-Feng Zhao *
束传存 (Chuan‐Cun Shu) *
DOI:10.1021/acs.jpca.6c01498delete
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Tailored ultrafast laser pulses provide a powerful means of selectively breaking bonds in polyatomic molecules. However, traditional laser control strategies often assume that reactions begin from pure eigenstates or thermal ensembles. Here, we present a theoretical framework that combines an ultrashort infrared (IR) pulse train with a time-delayed ultraviolet (UV) pulse to achieve selective photodissociation in HOD-a prototypical system for mode-selective chemistry. Our approach utilizes nonresonant infrared (NIR) pulse trains to drive impulsive stimulated Raman scattering (ISRS), thereby generating coherent superpositions of the O-H and O-D stretching vibrational modes in the ground electronic state. These vibrational coherences enable UV-induced quantum interference: a time-delayed UV pulse projects the prepared vibrational states onto a repulsive electronic state, resulting in bond-selective photodissociation. By tuning the pulse delay and adjusting molecular orientation, we can steer the reaction pathway and, under optimal conditions, reduce the H/D product ratio to 0.3. Our findings underscore the critical roles of vibrational coherence and pulse shaping in controlling chemical reactivity and offer an analytically transparent perspective that connects vibrational-state preparation to dissociation branching ratios.
Keywords:
PHOTODISSOCIATION DYNAMICS
COHERENT CONTROL
LASER CONTROL
WATER
PHOTOFRAGMENTATION
FRAGMENTATION
MOLECULES
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Journal of Physical Chemistry A cover
Journal of Physical Chemistry A
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