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dc.contributor.advisorAndrei Tokmakoff.en_US
dc.contributor.authorLoparo, Joseph J. (Joseph John)en_US
dc.contributor.otherMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Chemistry.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-08-29T20:36:36Z
dc.date.available2007-08-29T20:36:36Z
dc.date.issued2007en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38623
dc.descriptionThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemistry, February 2007.en_US
dc.description"December 2006." Vita.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_US
dc.description.abstractAqueous chemistry is strongly influenced by water's ability to form an extended network of hydrogen bonds. It is the fluctuations and rearrangements of this network that stabilize reaction products and drive the transport of excess protons through solution. Experimental observations of the dynamics of the hydrogen bonded network are difficult because (1) the timescales are exceedingly fast with relevant fluctuations occurring on a tens of femtosecond period and (2) the experimental probe must be sensitive to the local hydrogen bonded structure. In this thesis I address these experimental challenges through the development of ultrafast nonlinear infrared spectroscopy of the OH stretch of HOD in D20. The frequency of the OH stretch, OH, is sensitive to the configuration of the hydrogen bonded pair. Therefore, time-dependent changes in OoH can be correlated with changes in the hydrogen bonded geometry. I describe how broadband homodyne echo and polarization-dependent pump-probe experiments can be utilized to separate the contributions of spectral diffusion, vibrational relaxation and molecular reorientation. These experiments observe the underdamped motion of the hydrogen bonded pair and the librational motion of the OH dipole on the 180 and 50 fs timescales, respectively.en_US
dc.description.abstract(cont.) These dynamics occur on a relatively local (i.e. molecular) length scale. At times greater than ~300 fs the experiments observe signatures of a kinetic regime. No longer can the spectral relaxation be ascribed to a clear molecular motion. Instead, the decay originates from the collective reorganization of many molecules. Two dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2D IR) is applied to further investigate the mechanism of hydrogen bond rearrangement. 2D IR is an optical analogue of multidimensional NMR. As a correlation spectroscopy, time dependent changes in 2D IR line shapes track how vibrational oscillators relax from one frequency to another. I describe two methods of acquiring high fidelity 2D line shapes at wavelengths of 3 gtm. Both methods utilize a HeNe laser as a frequency standard and balanced detection of the signal field. Spectral diffusion is found to dominate the evolution of the 2D line shapes of the OH stretch up to the vibrational lifetime of 700 fs. At times beyond this point the line shapes change substantially, indicating population relaxation out of the v= 1 state and the formation of a spectroscopically distinct vibrationally excited ground state. Frequency dependent relaxation of the 2D IR line shapes reveals that molecules in hydrogen bonded and non-bonded configurations experience qualitatively different fluctuations.en_US
dc.description.abstract(cont.) Non-bonded configurations are found to return to band center on -100 fs timescale indicating that these configurations are inherently unstable. Hydrogen bonded oscillators undergo underdamped oscillations at the hydrogen bond stretching frequency before subsequent barrier crossing. Hydrogen bonding not only affects COOH. The transition dipole, gi, is modulated by the hydrogen bonding interaction, resulting in higher oscillator strength for strong hydrogen bonds. I describe how modeling the temperature dependent behavior of IR and Raman line shapes in combination with nonlinear IR spectroscopies can extract the frequency dependent magnitude of gi. The variation in the transition dipole with frequency is found to be roughly linear on resonance but is found to be strongly nonlinear for weak hydrogen bonds on the high frequency side of the OH line shape.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityby Joseph J. Loparo.en_US
dc.format.extent211 p.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMassachusetts Institute of Technologyen_US
dc.rightsM.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582
dc.subjectChemistry.en_US
dc.titleUltrafast structural fluctuations and rearrangements of water's hydrogen bonded networken_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.description.degreePh.D.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
dc.identifier.oclc156995800en_US


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