Ultrafast Electronic Relaxation and Hydrogen-Bond-Formation/Dissociation Dynamics of Photoexcited All-trans Retinal in Protic Solvents
Ultrafast Electronic Relaxation and Hydrogen-Bond-Formation/Dissociation Dynamics of Photoexcited All-trans Retinal in Protic Solvents
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质子溶剂中光激发全反式视黄醛的超快电子弛豫和氢键形成/解离动力学
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2000
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H. Hamaguchi
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Shoichi Yamaguchi and;H. Hamaguchi
The ultrafast electronic relaxation and the hydrogen-bond-formation/dissociation dynamics of photoexcited all-trans retinal in 1-butanol/cyclohexane mixed solvents have been studied by femtosecond time-resolved visible absorption spectroscopy. Four transient absorption bands, which can be assigned to the S3, S2, S1, and T1 states, were observed in neat cyclohexane. The shapes and the dynamics of these absorption bands agree very well with those reported previously for all-trans retinal in hexane. In contrast, only three transient absorption bands, which can be assigned to the S3, S2, and T1 states, were identified in the mixed solvents. The band assigned to the S2 state showed a time-dependent peak shift, which is attributed to solvent reorganization on a picosecond time scale. A kinetic analysis of the three transient absorption bands has led to the conclusion that no state-ordering change of the (n, π*) and (π, π*) states takes place in the excited singlet manifold upon hydrogen-bond formation. The 1-bu...