Direct Observation of Molecular Orbital Mixing in a Solvated Organ-ometallic Complex

摘要

Engineering new materials with novel catalytic properties is a subject of strong technological relevance, while understanding the reaction dynamics, that is, breaking and making chemical bonds as well as the ligand-exchange dynamics, is a subject of scientific investigation. In this context multidimensional spectroscopic studies of the electronic and geometric structure of catalysts are emerging as challenging state-of-the-art methods for the fundamental understanding of reaction mechanisms in catalysis. In this framework, X-ray spectroscopy is an important area of synchrotron-based research that probesfundamental properties of matter, while addressing issues related to modern technology.