Vibrational relaxation of the free terminal hydroxyl stretch in methanol oligomers: Indirect pathway to hydrogen bond breaking

Vibrational relaxation of methanol-d (MeOD) in carbon tetrachloride has been investigated via ultrafast infrared pump–probe experiments. Exciting at 2690 cm−1, only the free O-D (where the D is not H-bonded) stretching mode is initially populated. For MeOD mole fractions ⩽0.025, a 2.15 ps single exponential decay is observed. At mole fractions ⩾0.0375, the signal decays (2.15 ps decay time) below zero (increased absorption) and then recovers on time scales of 22 ps and ≫300 ps. The increased absorption indicates the formation of additional free ODs caused by the breaking of H-bonds that are not directly coupled to the initially excited vibration. The two-time scale recovery of this signal arises from geminate and nongeminate recombination. The data are fit with a set of kinetic equations that accurately reproduce the data. The results suggest that vibrational relaxation of the initially excited free OD stretch into intramolecular modes of the methanol leads to H-bond breaking. This contrasts studies that ...

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