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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 12, Issue 31, Pages 8832-8839Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b925071a
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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.
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