Probing Photodynamics of Retinal Protonated Schiff-Base with 7 fs Impulsive Vibrational Spectroscopy

Oshrat Bismuth, Amir Wand, Noga Friedman, Mordechai Sheves, Sanford Ruhman*

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Abstract

Two and three pulses experiments are conducted to record the elusive S1 vibrational spectrum of Retinal Protonated Schiff-Base in solution. We find a reduction in C=C stretching frequency and other shifted bands in the fluorescent state, whose relevance are discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpringer Series in Chemical Physics
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages589-591
Number of pages3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

Publication series

NameSpringer Series in Chemical Physics
Volume92
ISSN (Print)0172-6218

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2009, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Keywords

  • Deformable Mirror
  • Excited State Population
  • Internal Conversion
  • Retinal Protein
  • Transient Absorption

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