Molecular Conformation and Organic Photochemistry: Time-resolved Photoionization Studies

Rasmus Brogaard's thesis digs into the fundamental issue of how the shape of a molecule relates to its phohemical reactivity. This relation is drastically different from that of ground-state chemistry, since lifetimes of excited states are often comparable to or even shorter than the time scales of conformational changes. Combining theoretical and experimental efforts in femto-second time-resolved photoionization Rasmus Brogaard finds that a requirement for an efficient phohemical reaction ...