Molecular ground-state dissociation in the condensed phase employing plasmonic field enhancement of chirped mid-infrared pulses

Ikki Morichika, Kei Murata, Atsunori Sakurai, Kazuyuki Ishii and Satoshi Ashihara ()
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Ikki Morichika: The University of Tokyo
Kei Murata: The University of Tokyo
Atsunori Sakurai: The University of Tokyo
Kazuyuki Ishii: The University of Tokyo
Satoshi Ashihara: The University of Tokyo

Nature Communications, 2019, vol. 10, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: Abstract Selective bond cleavage via vibrational excitation is the key to active control over molecular reactions. Despite its great potential, the practical implementation in condensed phases have been hampered to date by poor excitation efficiency due to fast vibrational relaxation. Here we demonstrate vibrationally mediated, condensed-phase molecular dissociation by employing intense plasmonic near-fields of temporally-shaped mid-infrared (mid-IR) pulses. Both down-chirping and substantial field enhancement contribute to efficient ladder climbing of the carbonyl stretch vibration of W(CO)6 in n-hexane solution and to the resulting CO dissociation. We observe an absorption band emerging with laser irradiation at the excitation beam area, which indicates that the dissociation is followed by adsorption onto metal surfaces. This successful demonstration proves that the combination of ultrafast optics and nano-plasmonics in the mid-IR range is useful for mode-selective vibrational ladder climbing, paving the way toward controlled ground-state chemistry.

Date: 2019
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