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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Ultrafast Photochemistry in Liquids
Beteiligte:
Rosspeintner, Arnulf;
Lang, Bernhard;
Vauthey, Eric
Erschienen:
Annual Reviews, 2013
Erschienen in:
Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 64 (2013) 1, Seite 247-271
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1146/annurev-physchem-040412-110146
ISSN:
0066-426X;
1545-1593
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<jats:p>Ultrafast photochemical processes can occur in parallel with the relaxation of the optically populated excited state toward equilibrium. The latter involves both intra- and intermolecular modes, namely vibrational and solvent coordinates, and takes place on timescales ranging from a few tens of femtoseconds to up to hundreds of picoseconds, depending on the system. As a consequence, the reaction dynamics can substantially differ from those usually measured with slower photoinduced processes occurring from equil-ibrated excited states. For example, the decay of the excited-state population may become strongly nonexponential and depend on the excitation wavelength, contrary to the Kasha and Vavilov rules. In this article, we first give a brief account of our current understanding of vibrational and solvent relaxation processes. We then present an overview of important classes of ultrafast photochemical reactions, namely electron and proton transfer as well as isomerization, and illustrate with several examples how nonequilibrium effects can affect their dynamics.</jats:p>