Investigation on the ultrafast relaxation dynamics of the S1 state of 3,4-difluoroaniline

The ultrafast dynamics of 3,4-difluoroaniline is studied by time-resolved velocity map imaging and mass spec-troscopy. Following the excitation with 299.6 or 291.8 nm to the S1 state, relaxation process with three decay components is explored. The hundreds-of-picosecond decay is attributed to the intersystem crossing to triplet state and the nanosecond decay represents the following relaxation of the triplet state. However, the dynamics in hundreds-of-femtoseconds for two excitations are different. We intend to designate it as the molecules leaving the Franck-Condon region at 299.6 nm and as the intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution at 291.8 nm with highly vibrational excitation.

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The ultrafast dynamics of 3,4-difluoroaniline is studied using time-resolved velocity map imaging and mass spectroscopy. After excitation to the S1 state at 299.6 or 291.8 nm, the relaxation process is characterized by three decay components. The hundreds-of-picosecond decay is attributed to intersystem crossing to triplet state and subsequent relaxation, while the dynamics in hundreds-of-femtoseconds for two excitations show differences, possibly due to molecules leaving the Franck-Condon region at 299.6 nm and intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution at 291.8 nm with highly vibrational excitation.