Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)

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Publication date(s): 2024/06/25 (online)

Pages: 6826-6834

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Journal: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

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Resonance Raman spectroscopy can provide insights into complex reaction mechanisms by selectively enhancing the signals of specific molecular species. In this work, we demonstrate that, by changing the excitation wavelength, Raman bands of different intermediates in the methanol-to-hydrocarbons reactions can be identified. We show in particular how UV excitation enhances signals from short-chain olefins and cyclopentadienyl cations during the induction period, while visible excitation better detects later-stage aromatics. However, visible excitation is prone to fluorescence that can obscure Raman signals, and hence, we show how fast fluorescence rejection techniques like Kerr gating are necessary for extracting useful information from visible excitation measurements.