TY - JOUR
T1 - Solvent tuning of a conical intersection
T2 - Direct experimental verification of a theoretical prediction
AU - Kahan, Anat
AU - Wand, Amir
AU - Ruhman, Sanford
AU - Zilberg, Shmuel
AU - Haas, Yehuda
PY - 2011/10/13
Y1 - 2011/10/13
N2 - We report an ultrafast study of a merocyanine molecule, whose fluorescence lifetime was tuned by changing the solvent's polarity. A recent theoretical prediction that the fluorescence lifetime is considerably shortened upon lowering the polarity of the solvent, due to tuning of the conical intersection properties, is fully confirmed (Xu et al. J. Phys. Chem. A2009, 113, 9779-9791). This constitutes a direct measurement of a previously predicted tunable property of a conical intersection.
AB - We report an ultrafast study of a merocyanine molecule, whose fluorescence lifetime was tuned by changing the solvent's polarity. A recent theoretical prediction that the fluorescence lifetime is considerably shortened upon lowering the polarity of the solvent, due to tuning of the conical intersection properties, is fully confirmed (Xu et al. J. Phys. Chem. A2009, 113, 9779-9791). This constitutes a direct measurement of a previously predicted tunable property of a conical intersection.
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U2 - 10.1021/jp206412h
DO - 10.1021/jp206412h
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AN - SCOPUS:80053910684
SN - 1089-5639
VL - 115
SP - 10854
EP - 10861
JO - Journal of Physical Chemistry A
JF - Journal of Physical Chemistry A
IS - 40
ER -