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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
卷 109, 期 32, 页码 15589-15597出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp052027g
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Peridinin, the carotenoid in the peridinin chlorophyll a protein (PCP), was studied by Stark (electroabsorption) spectroscopy to determine the change in electrostatic properties produced on excitation within the absorption band, in methyl tetrahydrofuran (MeTHF) versus ethylene glycol (EG), at 77 K. Strikingly, a large change in the permanent dipole moment (vertical bar Delta(mu) over right arrow) was found between the ground state, S-0 (1(1)A(g)*(-)), and the Franck-Condon region of the S-2 (1(1) B-u*(+)) excited state, in both MeTHF (22 D) and EG (similar to 27 D), thus revealing the previously unknown charge transfer (CT) character of this pi-pi* transition in peridinin. Such a large vertical bar Delta(mu) over right arrow vertical bar produced on excitation, we suggest, facilitates the bending of the lactone moiety, toward which charge transfer occurs, and the subsequent formation of the previously identified intramolecular CT (ICT) state at lower energy. This unexpectedly large S-2 dipole moment, which has not been predicted even from high-level electronic structure calculations, is supported by calculating the shift of the peridinin absorption band as a function of solvent polarity, using the experimentally derived result. Overall, the photoinduced charge transfer uncovered here is expected to affect the excited-state reactivity of peridinin and, within the protein, be important for efficient energy transfer from the carotenoid S-2 and S-1/ICT states to the chlorophylls in PCP.
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