Picosecond time-resolved UV resonance Raman spectroscopy of the photochemical ring opening of 1,3,5-cyclooctatriene and .alpha.-phellandrene
作者:Philip J. Reid、Stephen J. Doig、Richard A. Mathies
DOI:10.1021/j100385a006
日期:1990.11
Barriers in the excited 2 <sup>1</sup><i>A</i><sub><i>g</i></sub> state for the <i>c</i><i>i</i><i>s</i>,<i>t</i><i>r</i><i>a</i><i>n</i><i>s</i> isomerization of <i>c</i><i>i</i><i>s</i>,<i>c</i><i>i</i><i>s</i>‐octatetraene: General features of the excited state potential
作者:Bryan E. Kohler、Pradip Mitra、Paul West
DOI:10.1063/1.451789
日期:1986.10.15
The lifetime of the excited 2 1Ag state of cis,cis-octatetraene (the eight carbon oligomer of cis-polyacetylene) in a n-octane host crystal has been measured as a function of temperature in the region 8<T<116 K. The lifetime is relatively long at 8 K (130 ns), drops to a lower value at approximately 30 K, and then begins to decrease rapidly with increasing temperature in the neighborhood of 100 K. The highly resolved optical spectra show unambiguously that at 30 K the decrease in lifetime is associated with thermal isomerization to cis,trans-octatetrane in the excited 2 1Ag state. These data are combined with other spectroscopic and kinetic data to obtain estimates for the energies of all three double bond isomers in ground and excited states and the activation energies for double bond isomerization in the excited state.
Photochemical preparation and identification of cis,cis-1,3,5,7-octatetraene
作者:Musharraf Hossain、Bryan E. Kohler、Paul West
DOI:10.1021/j100222a017
日期:1982.12
Excited‐state structure and photochemical ring‐opening dynamics of 1,3,5‐cyclo‐octatriene from absolute resonance Raman intensities
作者:Mary K. Lawless、Richard A. Mathies
DOI:10.1063/1.466498
日期:1994.2.15
Absolute resonance Raman cross sections are measured for 1,3,5-cyclo-octatriene (COT) in cyclohexane with excitation from 325 to 200 nm. These intensities and the absorption spectrum are modeled using a fully thermalized time-correlator theory to quantitate the excited-state equilibrium geometry displacements along 19 Raman-active normal modes. The resonance Raman spectra show significant intensity in low-frequency modes corresponding to planarization of the eight-membered ring. The 140 cm−1 twist-boat planarization (Δ=4.6) and the 339 cm−1 ring deformation (Δ=1.6) are particularly strong. However, no intensity is observed in modes which project onto the predicted disrotatory ring-opening motion, such as the nontotally symmetric CH2 twist fundamental or its overtone. Analysis of the fluorescence quantum yield (φF=2×10−6) gives an excited state lifetime on the order of ∼30 fs. These results show that ring planarization is the first step in the disrotatory ring opening of COT followed by rapid depopulation of the initially prepared state to a lower-lying excited electronic state upon which the actual ring opening occurs. Comparison of these results with the excited-state dynamics of other pericyclic systems suggests that pericyclic rearrangements occur only once a planar structure is established and that the bond rearrangement occurs predominantly on a low-lying, optically forbidden excited state.