Unusual behavior in the first excited state lifetime of catechol
Atomic and Molecular Clusters
2014-02-04 v1 Chemical Physics
Abstract
We are presenting vibrationally selective pump-probe measurements of the first electronic excited-state (pp*) lifetime of jet-cooled neutral catechol (1,2-dihydroxybenzene). The lifetime of the 0-0 transition is very short (7 ps) as rationalized by the small pp*/psigma* gap calculated. However the lifetimes implying higher out-of-plane vibrational levels are longer (~11 ps). This emphasizes the role of the out-of-plane vibration in the pp*/psigma* coupling not only in its nature but also in the number of quanta
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@article{arxiv.1402.0476,
title = {Unusual behavior in the first excited state lifetime of catechol},
author = {Martin Weiler and Mitsuhiko Miyazaki and Géraldine Féraud and Shun-Ichi Ishiuchi and Claude Dedonder and Christophe Jouvet and Masaaki Fujii},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.0476},
year = {2014}
}