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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
卷 10, 期 1, 页码 121-127出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b03070
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-1807729, CHE-1151555]
Spatial confinement can have a profound impact on the dynamics of chemical reactions, especially for isomerization reactions that involve large-amplitude structural rearrangement of a molecule. This work uses ultrafast spectroscopy to probe the effects of confinement on trans -> cis photoisomerization following pi pi* excitation of 4-propyl stilbene and 4-propyl azobenzene encapsulated in a supramolecular host-guest complex. Transient absorption spectroscopy of the encapsulated azobenzene derivative reveals the formation of two distinct excited-state species with spectral signatures resembling the cis and trans isomers. Formation of the cis species indicates a direct excited-state isomerization channel that is not observed in cyclohexane solution. Comparison with the stilbene analogue suggests that this hot excited-state isomerization pathway for encapsulated azobenzene involves primarily in-plane inversion, whereas a 10-fold increase of the excited-state lifetime for the trans isomer suggests that crowding in the capsule hinders isomerization from the relaxed S-1 geometry of the trans isomer. This work provides new mechanistic insight on the relative roles of inversion and rotation in the ultrafast photoisomerization of azobenzene derivatives.
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