Comment on “Charge transfer to solvent dynamics in iodide aqueous solution studied at ionization threshold” by A. Kothe, M. Wilke, A. Moguilevski, N. Engel, B. Winter, I. Y. Kiyan and E. F. Aziz, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17, 1918

Abstract

We critically discuss recent results about CTTS dynamics in aqueous iodide solution.

Reply to the ‘Comment on “Charge Transfer to Solvent Dynamics in Iodide Aqueous Solution Studied at Ionization Threshold”’ by A. Lübcke and H.-H. Ritze, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2015, 17, DOI: 10.1039/C5CP00346F

“…In their Comment, 1 Ritze and Lu ¨bcke raise two new issues which we would like to address. The first concerns the spectral contributions to one-color spectra, and the second point regards the presence of cross-correlation signal in the transient spectra.…”

“…Furthermore, the final state in the core-level excitation study of chloride aqueous solution 8 is a 1-hole and not a 2-hole state unlike stated in the Comment. 1 (3) The binding energy of the solvated electron in aqueous solution is known to have a value between 3.3 and 3.6 eV. 9,10 In a photoelectron study, it is highly improbable that this species is observable with probe photons of 3.55 eV.…”