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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 119, Issue 46, Pages 14660-14667Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b09964
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- EPSRC [EP/J009148/1, J021431/1]
- Brazilian Funding Agency CAPES doctoral studentship [BEX 9527/13-3]
- EPSRC [EP/J009148/1, EP/M016110/1, EP/J021431/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/M016110/1, EP/J021431/1, EP/J009148/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Molecular conformational changes in electronic excited states play a key role in numerous light-activated processes. In The,Case of,porphyrin oligomers intramolecular twisting influence, energy and charge transport dynamics. Here we address the twisting reaction in both ground and excited states in a model prophyrin, dimer,:employing two-dimension electronic spectroscopy (2D ES): By spreading the information over excitation and detection frequencies, cross-peaks reveal the twisting reaction in both the ground and excited states unambiguously and distinctly from other dynamics. A quasi-barrierless planarization reaction is observed in the excited state oh a tens of picoseconds time scale. This is accompanied by a Spectral narrowing, indicative of a reduction in conformational disorder. The reverse reaction is suppressed in the excited state due to a steep activation energy barrier: However, in the ground state the barrier is within the thermal energy distribution, and therefore contributions from reverse and forward reactions could be observed on the subnanosecond time scale. Crucially 2D ES enables simultaneous assessment Of ground and excited state reactions through analysis of different spectral regions on the 2D spectral maps.
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