Control of femtosecond laser driven retro-Diels-Alder-like reaction of dicyclopentadiene

Dipak Kumar Das; Tapas Goswami; Debabrata Goswami

doi:10.1117/12.897909

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23 August 2011 Control of femtosecond laser driven retro-Diels-Alder-like reaction of dicyclopentadiene

Dipak Kumar Das; Tapas Goswami; Debabrata Goswami

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Proceedings Volume 8173, Photonics 2010: Tenth International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics; 81730O (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.897909
Event: International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, 2010, Guwahati, India

Abstract

Using femtosecond time resolved degenerate pump-probe mass spectrometry coupled with simple linearly chirped frequency modulated pulse, we elucidate that the dynamics of retro-Diels-Alder reaction of diclopentadiene (DCPD) to cyclopentadiene (CPD) in supersonic molecular beam occurs in ultrafast time scale. Negatively chirped pulse enhances the ion yield of CPD, as compared to positively chirped pulse. This indicates that by changing the frequency (chirp) of the laser pulse we can control the ion yield of a chemical reaction.

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Dipak Kumar Das, Tapas Goswami, and Debabrata Goswami "Control of femtosecond laser driven retro-Diels-Alder-like reaction of dicyclopentadiene", Proc. SPIE 8173, Photonics 2010: Tenth International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, 81730O (23 August 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.897909

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