Photoisomerization in Dense Gases and Liquids

Impact of kilobar pressures on ultrafast triazene and thiacyanine photodynamics

Application of high hydrostatic pressure leads to changes in (sub)picosecond emission dynamics, depending on the mechanism at work for the photoreaction.

Solvent effects on the thermal isomerization of a rotary molecular motor

Solvent effects on a thermal isomerization process are explored using an exceptionally large data set and statistical analysis.

Fluorescence Excitation Spectrum, Lifetimes and Photoisomerization of Jet-Cooled Conformers of 1,1´-bi(benzocyclobutylidene)

First measurements of fluorescence excitation spectra of the recently synthesized rigid stilbene analogue 1,1´-bi(benzocyclobutylidene) in asupersonic jet expansion show that, in contrast to the parent compound, both the

On the possibility of the Observation of Intramolecular Reaction Dynamics in Liquids by Time-resolved X-ray Scattering

The feasibility of time-resolved structural studies using pulsed X-ray radiation from a 3rd generation synchrotron is discussed and compared with scattering experiments which might be possible with a future free electron laser (X-FEL). As an example, it is shown that the structural changes during the isomerisation process of trans-stilbene into cis-stilbene can be observed using time-resolved X-ray diffraction in the gas-phase as well as in solution.