Abstract
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) is a sensitive and powerful technique in revealing the structure of a material, providing as well high accuracy on interatomic distances. Nevertheless, when dealing with systems that differ only by small structural features, a standard data analysis might be unable of discriminating between such differences. A differential approach was proposed by Bressler, Chergui, and co-workers [2003, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 047403][2006, J. Phys. Chem B, 110, 14035][2009 Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 48 2711] to solve this problem and differentiate between excited and unexcited state structures during pump-and-probe transient XAS experiments. In this contribution, we apply the differential data analysis procedure to the study of two closely-related molecular complexes, namely cis-[Ru(bpy)2(py)2]2+ and cis-[Ru(bpy)2(py)(H2O)]2+, characterized under static conditions. It is herein demonstrated that the method, based on a direct fit of differential curves, is able to reveal the small differences present between the two structures which, conversely, could not be resolved by standard EXAFS fitting of full spectra.
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