Structural tracking of a bimolecular reaction in solution by time-resolved X-ray scattering

Kristoffer Haldrup; Morten Christensen; Marco Cammarata; Qingyu Kong; Michael Wulff; Simon O Mariager; Klaus Bechgaard; Robert Feidenhans'l; Niels Harrit; Martin M Nielsen

doi:10.1002/anie.200900741

Structural tracking of a bimolecular reaction in solution by time-resolved X-ray scattering

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2009;48(23):4180-4. doi: 10.1002/anie.200900741.

Authors

Kristoffer Haldrup¹, Morten Christensen, Marco Cammarata, Qingyu Kong, Michael Wulff, Simon O Mariager, Klaus Bechgaard, Robert Feidenhans'l, Niels Harrit, Martin M Nielsen

Affiliation

¹ Centre for Molecular Movies, Department of Chemistry and Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.

PMID: 19405061
DOI: 10.1002/anie.200900741

Abstract

Molecular movies: Time-resolved X-ray scattering provides direct structural information on an electronically excited complex while it is formed in the bimolecular reaction between excited octahydrogen[tetrakis-mu-diphosphito-1kappaP:2kappaP'-diplatinate](4-) (PtPOP*) and thallium ions. In the exciplex one thallium(I) and two platinum(II) ions are found to be collinear.