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Publicly Available Published by De Gruyter (O) June 15, 2011

OH and NH Stretching Vibrational Relaxation of Liquid Ethanolamine

  • Stephan Knop , Jörg Lindner and Peter Vöhringer

Abstract

Femtosecond mid-infrared pump-probe spectroscopy was carried out to obtain information about the dynamics of vibrational energy relaxation in liquid ethanolamine at room temperature and ambient pressure. Through partial deuteration it was possible to disentangle the dynamics resulting from the OH and the NH stretching modes that proceed independently and simultaneously in the hydrogen-bonded liquid following an ultrafast vibrational excitation by a resonant mid-infrared pulse. The OH-stretching vibrational lifetime was determined to be 450 fs while the NH-stretching lifetime was found to be 1.2 ps. This large difference in lifetimes highlights the importance of the hydrogen-donating and the hydrogen-accepting character of the vibrating groups that are engaged in hydrogen-bonding.


* Correspondence address: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Lehrstuhl für Molekulare Physikalische Chemie, Wegelerstraße 12, Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, 53177 Bonn, Deutschland,

Published Online: 2011-6-15
Published in Print: 2011-10-1

© by Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Bonn, Germany

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