Abstract
Femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy was employed to investigate the ultrafast non-adiabatic dynamics of diethylamine (DEA). Following the direct excitations of the two main conformational structures (i.e., TT and TG) of DEA to the 3p Rydberg states at 200 nm, DEA undergoes internal conversion to the 3s state with ∼68 fs, which is similar to previously relaxation pathways of several secondary and tertiary amines. Subsequent dynamics on the 3s Rydberg state evolves along the NH stretching coordinate and is then accompanied by the breaking of the NH bond in about 120 fs, rather than the cleavage of the NC, or CC bonds as well as the conformational transformations between the TT and TG conformers on the 3s states. Theoretically, we reveal the pre-dissociative nσ* character evolving along the NH stretching coordinate within the 3s state as DEA dissociates to yield H atom products. As contrasted to the well-known conformational NC bond rotation motions in systems such as tertiary amines, the non-adiabatic relaxation of the 3s state of DEA is predominantly characterized by the NH bond dissociation process.
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