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Solaris J, Krueger TD, Chen C, Fang C. Photogrammetry of Ultrafast Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer Pathways in the Fungal Pigment Draconin Red. Molecules 2023; 28:molecules28083506. [PMID: 37110741 PMCID: PMC10144053 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28083506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2023] [Revised: 04/11/2023] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 04/29/2023] Open
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Proton transfer processes of organic molecules are key to charge transport and photoprotection in biological systems. Among them, excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) reactions are characterized by quick and efficient charge transfer within a molecule, resulting in ultrafast proton motions. The ESIPT-facilitated interconversion between two tautomers (PS and PA) comprising the tree fungal pigment Draconin Red in solution was investigated using a combination of targeted femtosecond transient absorption (fs-TA) and excited-state femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (ES-FSRS) measurements. Transient intensity (population and polarizability) and frequency (structural and cooling) dynamics of -COH rocking and -C=C, -C=O stretching modes following directed stimulation of each tautomer elucidate the excitation-dependent relaxation pathways, particularly the bidirectional ESIPT progression out of the Franck-Condon region to the lower-lying excited state, of the intrinsically heterogeneous chromophore in dichloromethane solvent. A characteristic overall excited-state PS-to-PA transition on the picosecond timescale leads to a unique "W"-shaped excited-state Raman intensity pattern due to dynamic resonance enhancement with the Raman pump-probe pulse pair. The ability to utilize quantum mechanics calculations in conjunction with steady-state electronic absorption and emission spectra to induce disparate excited-state populations in an inhomogeneous mixture of similar tautomers has broad implications for the modeling of potential energy surfaces and delineation of reaction mechanisms in naturally occurring chromophores. Such fundamental insights afforded by in-depth analysis of ultrafast spectroscopic datasets are also beneficial for future development of sustainable materials and optoelectronics.
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- Janak Solaris
- Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, 153 Gilbert Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, 153 Gilbert Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, 153 Gilbert Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University, 153 Gilbert Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Absolute excited state molecular geometries revealed by resonance Raman signals. Nat Commun 2022; 13:7770. [PMID: 36522323 PMCID: PMC9755279 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35099-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2022] [Accepted: 11/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Ultrafast reactions activated by light absorption are governed by multidimensional excited-state (ES) potential energy surfaces (PESs), which describe how the molecular potential varies with the nuclear coordinates. ES PESs ad-hoc displaced with respect to the ground state can drive subtle structural rearrangements, accompanying molecular biological activity and regulating physical/chemical properties. Such displacements are encoded in the Franck-Condon overlap integrals, which in turn determine the resonant Raman response. Conventional spectroscopic approaches only access their absolute value, and hence cannot determine the sense of ES displacements. Here, we introduce a two-color broadband impulsive Raman experimental scheme, to directly measure complex Raman excitation profiles along desired normal modes. The key to achieve this task is in the signal linear dependence on the Frank-Condon overlaps, brought about by non-degenerate resonant probe and off-resonant pump pulses, which ultimately enables time-domain sensitivity to the phase of the stimulated vibrational coherences. Our results provide the tool to determine the magnitude and the sensed direction of ES displacements, unambiguously relating them to the ground state eigenvectors reference frame.
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Absorption and stationary fluorescent spectra of molecular sensors in solution: A computational study. COMPUT THEOR CHEM 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.comptc.2022.113596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Intramolecular Charge Transfer of Curcumin and Solvation Dynamics of DMSO Probed by Time-Resolved Raman Spectroscopy. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23031727. [PMID: 35163647 PMCID: PMC8835799 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23031727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2021] [Revised: 01/25/2022] [Accepted: 01/31/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) of curcumin in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) solution in the excited state was investigated by femtosecond electronic and vibrational spectroscopy. Excited-state Raman spectra of curcumin in the locally-excited and charge-transferred (CT) state of the S1 excited state were separated due to high temporal (<50 fs) and spectral (<10 cm−1) resolutions of femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy. The ultrafast (0.6–0.8 ps) ICT and subsequent vibrational relaxation (6–9 ps) in the CT state were ubiquitously observed in the ground- and excited-state vibrational modes of the solute curcumin and the νCSC and νS=O modes of solvent DMSO. The ICT of curcumin in the excited state was preceded by the disruption of the solvation shells, including the breakage of hydrogen bonding between curcumin and DMSO molecules, which occurs at the ultrafast (20–50 fs) time scales.
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Zhang W, Kong J, Xu W, Niu X, Song D, Liu W, Xia A. Probing effect of solvation on photoexcited quadrupolar donor-acceptor-donor molecule via ultrafast Raman spectroscopy. CHINESE J CHEM PHYS 2022. [DOI: 10.1063/1674-0068/cjcp2111223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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The symmetric and quadrupolar donor-acceptor-donor (D-A-D) molecules usually exhibit excited-state charge redistribution process from delocalized intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) state to localized ICT state. Direct observation of such charge redistribution process in real-time has been intensively studied via various ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopies. Femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) is one of the powerful methods which can be used to determine the excited state dynamics by tracking vibrational mode evolution of the specific chemical bonds within molecules. Herein, a molecule, 4,4′-(buta-1,3-diyne-1,4-diyl)bis( N, N-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)aniline), that consists of two central adjacent alkyne (-C≡C-) groups as electron-acceptors and two separated, symmetric N, N-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)aniline at both branches as electron-donors, is chosen to investigate the excited-state photophysical properties. It is shown that the solvation induced excited-state charge redistribution in polar solvents can be probed by using femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy. The results provide a fundamental understanding of photoexcitation induced charge delocalization/localization properties of the symmetric quadrupolar molecules with adjacent vibrational markers located at central position.
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- Wei Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Information Photonic and Optical Communications, School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing 100876, China
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Department of Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
- STU SIOM Joint Laboratory for Superintense Lasers and the Applications, Shanghai 201210, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Information Photonic and Optical Communications, School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing 100876, China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
- STU SIOM Joint Laboratory for Superintense Lasers and the Applications, Shanghai 201210, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Information Photonic and Optical Communications, School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing 100876, China
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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Dobryakov AL, Krohn OA, Quick M, Ioffe I, Kovalenko SA. Positive and Negative Signal and Line-Shape in Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy: Resonance Femtosecond Raman Spectra of Diphenylbutadiene. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:084304. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0075116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Kim W, Tahara S, Kuramochi H, Takeuchi S, Kim T, Tahara T, Kim D. Mode‐Specific Vibrational Analysis of Exciton Delocalization and Structural Dynamics in Conjugated Oligomers. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202102168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Woojae Kim
- Department of Chemistry, Spectroscopy Laboratory for Functional, π-Electronic Systems Yonsei University Seoul 03722 Korea
- Current address: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Cornell University Ithaca NY 14853 USA
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory RIKEN 2-1 Hirosawa Wako 351-0198 Japan
- Current address: Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences Tohoku University 6-3 Aramaki-aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku Sendai 980-8578 Japan
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory RIKEN 2-1 Hirosawa Wako 351-0198 Japan
- Ultrafast Spectroscopy Research Team RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP) 2-1 Hirosawa Wako 351-0198 Japan
- JST PRESTO 4-1-8 Honcho Kawaguchi 332-0012 Japan
- Current address: Research Center of Integrative Molecular Systems (CIMoS) Institute for Molecular Science 38 Nishigo-Naka, Myodaji Okazaki 444-8585 Japan
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory RIKEN 2-1 Hirosawa Wako 351-0198 Japan
- Ultrafast Spectroscopy Research Team RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP) 2-1 Hirosawa Wako 351-0198 Japan
- Current address: Graduate School of Material Science University of Hyogo 3-2-1 Koto Kamigori Ako 678-1297 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Spectroscopy Laboratory for Functional, π-Electronic Systems Yonsei University Seoul 03722 Korea
- Current address: Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern Northwestern University Evanston IL 60208-3113 USA
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory RIKEN 2-1 Hirosawa Wako 351-0198 Japan
- Ultrafast Spectroscopy Research Team RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP) 2-1 Hirosawa Wako 351-0198 Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Spectroscopy Laboratory for Functional, π-Electronic Systems Yonsei University Seoul 03722 Korea
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Wei J, Wu Y, Pu R, Shi L, Jiang J, Du J, Guo Z, Huang Y, Liu W. Tracking Ultrafast Structural Dynamics in a Dual-Emission Anti-Kasha-Active Fluorophore Using Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:4466-4473. [PMID: 33955767 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The anti-Kasha process provides the possibility of using high-energy excited states to develop novel applications. Our previous research (Nature communications, 2020, 11, 793) has demonstrated a dual-emission anti-Kasha-active fluorophore for bioimaging application, which exhibits near-infrared emissions from the S1 state and visible anti-Kasha emissions from the S2 state. Here, we applied tunable blue-side femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS) and transient absorption spectroscopy, assisted by quantum calculations, to reveal the anti-Kasha dual emission mechanism, in which the emergence of two fluorescing states is due to the retardation of internal conversion from the S2 state to the S1 state. It has been demonstrated that the facts of anti-Kasha high-energy emission are commonly attributed to a large energy gap between the two excited states, leading to a decrease in the internal conversion rate due to a poor Franck-Condon factor. In this study, analysis of the calculation and FSRS experimental results provide us further insight into the dual-emission anti-Kasha mechanism, where the observation of hydrogen out-of-plane Raman modes from FSRS suggested that, in addition to the energy-gap law, the initial photoinduced molecular conformational change plays a key role in influencing the rate of internal conversion.
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- Jingle Wei
- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
- STU and SIOM Joint Laboratory for Superintense Lasers and the Applications, Shanghai 201210, China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
- STU and SIOM Joint Laboratory for Superintense Lasers and the Applications, Shanghai 201210, China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
- STU and SIOM Joint Laboratory for Superintense Lasers and the Applications, Shanghai 201210, China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Institute of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- STU and SIOM Joint Laboratory for Superintense Lasers and the Applications, Shanghai 201210, China
- State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Joint International Research Laboratory of Precision Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Feringa Nobel Prize Scientist Joint Research Center, Institute of Fine Chemicals, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
- STU and SIOM Joint Laboratory for Superintense Lasers and the Applications, Shanghai 201210, China
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Kim W, Tahara S, Kuramochi H, Takeuchi S, Kim T, Tahara T, Kim D. Mode-Specific Vibrational Analysis of Exciton Delocalization and Structural Dynamics in Conjugated Oligomers. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:16999-17008. [PMID: 33730430 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202102168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Abstract
Exciton delocalization in organic semiconducting polymers, affected by structures at a molecular level, plays a crucial role in modulating relaxation pathways, such as charge generation and singlet fission, which can boost device efficiency. However, the structural diversity of polymers and broad signals from typical electronic spectroscopy have their limits when it comes to revealing the interplay between local structures and exciton delocalization. To tackle these problems, we apply femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy in archetypical conjugated oligothiophenes with different chain lengths. We observed Raman frequency dispersions of symmetric bond stretching modes and mode-specific kinetics in the S1 Raman spectra, which underpins the subtle and complex interplay between exciton delocalization and bond length alternation along the conjugation coordinate. Our results provide a more general picture of exciton delocalization in the context of molecular structures for conjugated materials.
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- Woojae Kim
- Department of Chemistry, Spectroscopy Laboratory for Functional, π-Electronic Systems, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea.,Current address: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, 351-0198, Japan.,Current address: Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, 6-3 Aramaki-aza-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, 351-0198, Japan.,Ultrafast Spectroscopy Research Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, 351-0198, Japan.,JST PRESTO, 4-1-8 Honcho, Kawaguchi, 332-0012, Japan.,Current address: Research Center of Integrative Molecular Systems (CIMoS), Institute for Molecular Science, 38 Nishigo-Naka, Myodaji, Okazaki, 444-8585, Japan
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, 351-0198, Japan.,Ultrafast Spectroscopy Research Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, 351-0198, Japan.,Current address: Graduate School of Material Science, University of Hyogo, 3-2-1 Koto, Kamigori, Ako, 678-1297, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Spectroscopy Laboratory for Functional, π-Electronic Systems, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea.,Current address: Department of Chemistry and Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208-3113, USA
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- Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, 351-0198, Japan.,Ultrafast Spectroscopy Research Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, 351-0198, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Spectroscopy Laboratory for Functional, π-Electronic Systems, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea
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Zhang W, Xu W, Zhang G, Kong J, Niu X, Chan JMW, Liu W, Xia A. Direct Tracking Excited-State Intramolecular Charge Redistribution of Acceptor-Donor-Acceptor Molecule by Means of Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:4456-4464. [PMID: 33902280 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c01742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Symmetric quadrupolar molecules generally exhibit apolar ground states and dipolar excited states in a polar environment, which is explained by the excited state evolution from initial charge delocalization over all molecules to localization on one branch of the molecules after a femtosecond pulse excitation. However, direct observation of excited-state charge redistribution (delocalization/localization) is hardly accessible. Here, the intramolecular charge delocalization/localization character of a newly synthesized acceptor-donor-acceptor molecule (ADA) has been intensively investigated by femtosecond stimulated Raman scattering (FSRS) together with femtosecond transient absorption (fs-TA) spectroscopy. By tracking the excited state Raman spectra of the specific alkynyl (-C≡C-) bonds at each branch of ADA, we found that the nature of the relaxed S1 state is strongly governed by solvent polarity: symmetric delocalized intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) characters occurred in apolar solvent, whereas the asymmetric localized ICT characters appeared in polar solvent because of solvation. The solvation dynamics of ADA extracted from fs-TA is consistent with the time constants obtained by FSRS, but the FSRS clearly tracks the excited state intramolecular charge transfer delocalization/localization.
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- Wei Zhang
- School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing 100876, P. R. China.,Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, P. R. China.,STU & SIOM Joint Laboratory for Superintense Lasers and the Applications, Shanghai 201210, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, 10 Marie Curie Pvt., Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, 10 Marie Curie Pvt., Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, P. R. China.,STU & SIOM Joint Laboratory for Superintense Lasers and the Applications, Shanghai 201210, P. R. China
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- School of Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing 100876, P. R. China.,Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R China
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Batignani G, Ferrante C, Scopigno T. Accessing Excited State Molecular Vibrations by Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:7805-7813. [PMID: 32841039 PMCID: PMC7735730 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2020] [Accepted: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Excited state vibrations are crucial for determining the photophysical and photochemical properties of molecular compounds. Stimulated Raman scattering can coherently stimulate and probe molecular vibrations with optical pulses, but it is generally restricted to ground state properties. Working under resonance conditions enables cross-section enhancement and selective excitation to a targeted electronic level but is hampered by an increased signal complexity due to the presence of overlapping spectral contributions. Here, we show how detailed information about ground and excited state vibrations can be disentangled by exploiting the relative time delay between Raman and probe pulses to control the excited state population, combined with a diagrammatic formalism to dissect the pathways concurring with the signal generation. The proposed method is then exploited to elucidate the vibrational properties of the ground and excited electronic states in the paradigmatic case of cresyl violet. We anticipate that the presented approach holds the potential for selective mapping of the reaction coordinates pertaining to transient electronic stages implied in photoactive compounds.
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- Giovanni Batignani
- Dipartimento
di Fisica, Universitá di Roma “La
Sapienza”, Roma I-00185, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Fisica, Universitá di Roma “La
Sapienza”, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Center
for Life Nano Science @Sapienza, Istituto
Italiano di Tecnologia, Roma I-00161, Italy
- Graphene
Labs, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova I-16163, Italy
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- Dipartimento
di Fisica, Universitá di Roma “La
Sapienza”, Roma I-00185, Italy
- Center
for Life Nano Science @Sapienza, Istituto
Italiano di Tecnologia, Roma I-00161, Italy
- Graphene
Labs, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova I-16163, Italy
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Barclay MS, Elles CG, Caricato M. On the Discrepancy between Experimental and Calculated Raman Intensities for Conjugated Phenyl and Thiophene Derivatives. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:4678-4689. [PMID: 32392419 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c00363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Compared with experimental spectra, calculations for conjugated phenyl and thiophene oligomers tend to overestimate the ground state Raman intensities of higher-frequency vibrations (1200-1800 cm-1) relative to the intensities at lower frequencies (<1200 cm-1). The discrepancy was observed in previous benchmarking work that examined the method dependence of the calculated Raman spectra for a series of aromatic molecules. This paper further investigates the nature of the discrepancy by examining the role of anharmonic corrections and the dependence of the calculated Raman spectra on the inter-ring torsion angle for the representative molecules biphenyl (BP), 2-phenylthiophene (PT), and 2,2'-bithiophene (BT). Perturbative anharmonic corrections to the spectra calculated using density functional theory (DFT) provide only slightly better agreement with experiment. On the other hand, calculations at larger torsion angles give up to 30% improvement in the relative Raman intensities compared with the spectra calculated at the optimized geometries. The torsion-angle dependence of the Raman intensities is most pronounced for delocalized C-C and C-S stretching modes, and less pronounced for bending and ring distortion modes that do not involve inter-ring stretching. Higher-level calculations using the coupled cluster with single, double, and perturbative triple excitations [CCSD(T)] method indicate that DFT underestimates the energy barrier for torsion isomerization at small angles, and it overestimates the barriers at large angles, thus predicting minimum geometries at torsion angles that are too small. Therefore, the results suggest that the discrepancy in relative Raman intensities may be related to an overestimation of inter-ring conjugation by DFT, which also tends to favor geometries that are too planar.
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- Matthew S Barclay
- Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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Kwang SY, Frontiera RR. Spatially Offset Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy: Observing Exciton Transport through a Vibrational Lens. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:4337-4344. [PMID: 32427490 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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To design better molecular electronic devices, we need a strong understanding of how charges or excitons propagate, as many efficiency losses arise during transport. Exciton transport has been difficult to study because excitons tend to be short-lived, have short diffusion lengths, and can easily recombine. Here, we debut spatially offset femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (SO-FSRS), a three-pulse ultrafast microscopy technique. By offsetting the photoexcitation beam, we can monitor Raman spectral changes as a function of both time and position. We used SO-FSRS on 6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl) pentacene, a well-studied organic semiconductor used in photovoltaics and field-effect transistors. We demonstrated that the fast exciton and free charge carrier transport axes are identical and observed that exciton transport is less anisotropic by a factor of ∼3. SO-FSRS is the first technique that directly tracks molecular structural evolution during exciton transport, which can provide roadmaps for tailor-making molecules for specific electronic devices.
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- Siu Yi Kwang
- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, United States
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Kim J, Yoon TH, Cho M. Time-Resolved Impulsive Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy with Synchronized Triple Mode-Locked Lasers. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:2864-2869. [PMID: 32212699 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c00596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A complete understanding of a photochemical reaction dynamics begins with real-time measurements of both electronic and vibrational structures of photoexcited molecules. Time-resolved impulsive stimulated Raman spectroscopy (TR-ISRS) with femtosecond actinic pump, Raman pump, and Raman probe pulses is one of the incisive techniques enabling one to investigate the structural changes of photoexcited molecules. Herein, we demonstrate that such femtosecond TR-ISRS is feasible with synchronized triple mode-locked lasers without using any time-delay devices. Taking advantage of precise control of the three repetition rates independently, we could achieve automatic scanning of two delay times between the three pulses, which makes both rapid data acquisition and wide dynamic range measurement of the fifth-order TR-ISRS signal achievable. We thus anticipate that the present triple mode-locked laser-based TR-ISRS technique will be of critical use for long-term monitoring of photochemical reaction dynamics in condensed phases and biological systems.
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- JunWoo Kim
- Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
- Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
- Department of Chemistry, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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Sotome H, Une K, Nagasaka T, Kobatake S, Irie M, Miyasaka H. A dominant factor of the cycloreversion reactivity of diarylethene derivatives as revealed by femtosecond time-resolved absorption spectroscopy. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:034301. [PMID: 31968954 DOI: 10.1063/1.5134552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Dynamics of the cycloreversion reaction of a photochromic diarylethene derivative with a small ring-opening reaction yield (∼1%) was investigated by using femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. The reaction rate constant and activation barrier on the reaction coordinate were quantitatively analyzed on the basis of the temperature and excitation wavelength dependencies of the reaction yield and excited state dynamics. From the comparison of the present results with those in a more reactive derivative, we concluded that a key factor regulating the overall reaction yield is the branching ratio at the conical intersection where the excited state population is split into the product and the initial reactant. The excitation wavelength dependence of the dynamics indicated that the geometrical relaxation and vibrational cooling proceed in a few picosecond time scale behind the cycloreversion process, and the vibrational excess energy assists the molecule to climb up the energy barrier.
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- Hikaru Sotome
- Division of Frontier Materials Science and Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Frontier Materials Science and Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Frontier Materials Science and Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka City University, Sumiyoshi, Osaka 558-8585, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry and Research Center for Smart Molecules, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
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- Division of Frontier Materials Science and Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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Ferrante C, Batignani G, Pontecorvo E, Montemiglio LC, Vos MH, Scopigno T. Ultrafast Dynamics and Vibrational Relaxation in Six-Coordinate Heme Proteins Revealed by Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:2285-2292. [PMID: 31917551 PMCID: PMC7735705 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b10560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Identifying
the structural rearrangements during photoinduced reactions is a fundamental
challenge for understanding from a microscopic perspective the dynamics
underlying the functional mechanisms of heme proteins. Here, femtosecond
stimulated Raman spectroscopy is applied to follow the ultrafast evolution
of two different proteins, each bearing a six-coordinate heme with
two amino acid axial ligands. By exploiting the sensitivity of Raman
spectra to the structural configuration, we investigate the effects
of photolysis and the binding of amino acid residues in cytochrome c and neuroglobin. By comparing the system response for
different time delays and Raman pump resonances, we show how detailed
properties of atomic motions and energy redistribution can be unveiled.
In particular, we demonstrate substantially faster energy flow from
the dissociated heme to the protein moiety in cytochrome c, which we assign to the presence of covalent heme–protein
bonds.
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- Carino Ferrante
- Center for Life Nano Science @Sapienza , Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia , Rome I-00161 , Italy
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- LOB, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, INSERM , Institut Polytechnique de Paris , 91128 Palaiseau , France
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- Center for Life Nano Science @Sapienza , Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia , Rome I-00161 , Italy
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Batignani G, Ferrante C, Fumero G, Scopigno T. Broadband Impulsive Stimulated Raman Scattering Based on a Chirped Detection. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:7789-7796. [PMID: 31765160 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b03061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
Abstract
In impulsive stimulated Raman scattering, vibrational oscillations, coherently stimulated by a femtosecond Raman pulse, are monitored in real time and read out as intensity modulations in the transmission of a temporally delayed probe pulse. Critically, in order to retrieve broadband Raman spectra, a fine sampling of the time delays between the Raman and probe pulses is required, making conventional ISRS ineffective for probing irreversible phenomena and/or weak scatterers typically demanding long acquisition times, with signal-to-noise ratios that crucially depend on the pulse fluences and overlap stabilities. To overcome such limitations, here we introduce the chirped-based impulsive stimulated raman scattering (CISRS) technique. Specifically, we show how introducing a chirp in the probe pulse can be exploited for recording the Raman information without the need to scan over the Raman-probe pulse delay. We then experimentally demonstrate with a few examples how to use the introduced scheme to measure Raman spectra.
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- Giovanni Batignani
- Dipartimento di Fisica , Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza" , Roma I-00185 , Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica , Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza" , Roma I-00185 , Italy
- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia , Center for Life Nano Science @Sapienza , Roma I-00161 , Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica , Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza" , Roma I-00185 , Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica , Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza" , Roma I-00185 , Italy
- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia , Center for Life Nano Science @Sapienza , Roma I-00161 , Italy
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Barclay MS, Elles CG, Caricato M. Benchmark Study of Ground-State Raman Spectra in Conjugated Molecules. J Chem Theory Comput 2019; 16:612-620. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Matthew S. Barclay
- Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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Barclay MS, Caricato M, Elles CG. Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Scattering from Triplet Electronic States: Experimental and Theoretical Study of Resonance Enhancements. J Phys Chem A 2019; 123:7720-7732. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.9b05955] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Matthew S. Barclay
- Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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A proposal for building a Free Electron Laser, EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB, at the Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, is at present under consideration. This FEL facility will provide a unique combination of a high brightness GeV-range electron beam generated in a X-band RF linac, a 0.5 PW-class laser system and the first FEL source driven by a plasma accelerator. The FEL will produce ultra-bright pulses, with up to 10 12 photons/pulse, femtosecond timescale and wavelength down to 3 nm, which lies in the so called “water window”. The experimental activity will be focused on the realization of a plasma driven short wavelength FEL able to provide high-quality photons for a user beamline. In this paper, we describe the main classes of experiments that will be performed at the facility, including coherent diffraction imaging, soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering and photofragmentation measurements. These techniques will allow studying a variety of samples, both biological and inorganic, providing information about their structure and dynamical behavior. In this context, the possibility of inducing changes in samples via pump pulses leading to the stimulation of chemical reactions or the generation of coherent excitations would tremendously benefit from pulses in the soft X-ray region. High power synchronized optical lasers and a TeraHertz radiation source will indeed be made available for THz and pump–probe experiments and a split-and-delay station will allow performing XUV-XUV pump–probe experiments.
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Giovanni B, Emanuele P, Carino F, Massimiliano A, Christopher G. E, Tullio S. Visualizing excited state dynamics of conjugated molecules trough femtosecond stimulated Raman scattering. EPJ WEB OF CONFERENCES 2019. [DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201920509015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The reaction pathway in the photoexcited model compound 2-methyl-5-phenylthiophene has been unravelled by Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Scattering and quantum chemical calculations. The excited state dynamics, including structural rearrangement, vibrational cooling and intersystem-crossing, will be presented.
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Sotome H, Nagasaka T, Une K, Morikawa S, Katayama T, Kobatake S, Irie M, Miyasaka H. Cycloreversion Reaction of a Diarylethene Derivative at Higher Excited States Attained by Two-Color, Two-Photon Femtosecond Pulsed Excitation. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:17159-17167. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b09763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Hikaru Sotome
- Division
of Frontier Materials Science and Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary
Research, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division
of Frontier Materials Science and Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary
Research, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division
of Frontier Materials Science and Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary
Research, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division
of Frontier Materials Science and Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary
Research, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division
of Frontier Materials Science and Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary
Research, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Department
of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka City University, Sumiyoshi,
Osaka 558-8585, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry and Research Center for Smart Molecules, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1
Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
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- Division
of Frontier Materials Science and Center for Advanced Interdisciplinary
Research, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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Barclay MS, Quincy TJ, Williams-Young DB, Caricato M, Elles CG. Accurate Assignments of Excited-State Resonance Raman Spectra: A Benchmark Study Combining Experiment and Theory. J Phys Chem A 2017; 121:7937-7946. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.7b09467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Matthew S. Barclay
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, United States
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Bragg AE, Yu W, Zhou J, Magnanelli T. Ultrafast Raman Spectroscopy as a Probe of Local Structure and Dynamics in Photoexcited Conjugated Materials. J Phys Chem Lett 2016; 7:3990-4000. [PMID: 27681200 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
Abstract
An important challenge in the study of conjugated organic materials is to relate the properties of transient states underlying macroscopic material responses directly with intra- and intermolecular structure. We discuss recent efforts using the vibrational sensitivity of time-resolved Raman spectroscopy to interrogate structural properties of transient excited and charge-separated states in conjugated oligomers and polymers in order to relate them to molecular conformations and material microstructures. We focus on recent work with excited-state Raman spectroscopy that provides mode-specific signatures of structural relaxation in oligo- and polythiophenes, examination of structural heterogeneities associated with exciton localization in different structural motifs of amorphous polymers, and interrogation of correlations between microstructure and properties and dynamics of charge-separated states within polymer aggregates. On the basis of these recent efforts, we provide an outlook for further applying this method to elucidate relationships between the structure and properties of transient states and the photoresponses of conjugated materials.
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- Arthur E Bragg
- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University , 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University , 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University , 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University , 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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