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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 6, Issue 9, Pages 1592-1598Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b00528
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- Italian MIUR [PRIN-2010ERFKXL-004]
- FIRB [RBFR10Y5VW, RBFR109ZHQ]
- EFOR-CABIR [L. 191/2009 art. 2 comma 44]
- LASERLAB-EUROPE (EC) [284464]
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Assigning the vibrational modes of molecules in the electronic excited state is often a difficult task. Here we show that combining two nonlinear spectroscopic techniques, transient 2D exchange infrared spectroscopy (T2D-IR-EXSY) and femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS), the contribution of the C=C and C=O modes in the excited-state vibrational spectra of trans-beta-apo-8'carotenal can be unambiguously identified. The experimental results reported in this work confirm a previously proposed assignment based on quantum-chemical calculations and further strengthen the role of an excited state with charge-transfer character in the relaxation pathway of carbonyl carotenoids. On a more general ground, our results highlight the potentiality of nonlinear spectroscopic methods based on the combined use of visible and infrared pulses to correlate structural and electronic changes in photoexcited molecules.
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