https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20134105006
Influence of the Chemical Design on the Coherent Photoisomerization of Biomimetic Molecular Switches
1 Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, CNRS – Université de Strasbourg, France
2 IFN-CNR, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milano, Italy
3 Chemistry Department, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, United States
4 Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
a e-mail: Jeremie.Leonard@ipcms.unistra.fr
Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy reveals the effect of chemical substitutions on the photoreaction kinetics of biomimetic photoswitches displaying coherent dynamics. Ground state vibrational coherences are no longer observed when the excited state lifetime exceeds 300fs.
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