W. Radloff et al., ULTRAFAST INTRACLUSTER FRAGMENTATION IN HIGHLY EXCITED BENZENE-AMMONIA COMPLEXES, Chemical physics letters, 258(3-4), 1996, pp. 507-512
The dynamics of intracluster fragmentation in highly excited benzene(N
H3)(n) heteroclusters has been studied and compared with the ultrafast
process of internal conversion. In pump-probe experiments with 170 fs
laser pulses the clusters were excited to 6.2 eV and probed with 3.1
eV photons. The time constants for the dominant process of internal co
nversion as well as the parallel channel of fragmentation by NH2 loss
have been determined by fitting the measured time dependence with corr
esponding theoretical curves. No significant differences were obtained
comparing the internal conversion in benzene(NH3)(n) and benzene(ND3)
(n) complexes.