Assignment of carotene S state features to the vibrationally hot ground electronic state
2010 | journal article. A publication with affiliation to the University of Göttingen.
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Assignment of carotene S state features to the vibrationally hot ground electronic state
Lenzer, T.; Ehlers, F.; Scholz, M.; Oswald, R. B. & Oum, K. (2010)
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 12(31) pp. 8832-8839. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/b925071a
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- Authors
- Lenzer, Thomas; Ehlers, Florian; Scholz, Mirko; Oswald, Rainer B.; Oum, Kawon
- Abstract
- The so-called S state has been suggested to play an important role in the photophysics of beta-carotene and other carotenoids in solution and photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes, yet its origin has remained elusive. The present experiments employing temperature-dependent steady-state absorption spectroscopy and ultrafast pump-supercontinuum probe (PSCP) transient absorption measurements of beta-carotene in solution demonstrate that the spectral features of S are due to vibrationally excited molecules in the ground electronic state S(0). Characteristic spectral signatures, such as a highly structured bleach below 500 nm and absorption in the range 500-660 nm result from the superposition of hot S(0) absorption ("S(0) ') on top of the ground-state bleach of room-temperature molecules. Appearance and disappearance of the S(0) molecules can be completely described by a global kinetic analysis employing time-dependent species-associated spectra without the need to invoke the population of an intermediate electronically excited state.
- Issue Date
- 2010
- Status
- published
- Publisher
- Royal Soc Chemistry
- Journal
- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
- ISSN
- 1463-9076