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Multidimensional Electronic Spectroscopy of Photochemical Reactions
Author(s) -
Nuernberger Patrick,
Ruetzel Stefan,
Brixner Tobias
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201502974
Subject(s) - spectroscopy , isomerization , photochemistry , chemistry , spiropyran , merocyanine , population , photoisomerization , chemical physics , relaxation (psychology) , reaction dynamics , electron spectroscopy , photochromism , physics , molecule , psychology , social psychology , biochemistry , demography , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics , sociology , catalysis
Coherent multidimensional electronic spectroscopy can be employed to unravel various channels in molecular chemical reactions. This approach is thus not limited to analysis of energy transfer or charge transfer (i.e. processes from photophysics), but can also be employed in situations where the investigated system undergoes permanent structural changes (i.e. in photochemistry). Photochemical model reactions are discussed by using the example of merocyanine/spiropyran‐based molecular switches, which show a rich variety of reaction channels, in particular ring opening and ring closing, cis–trans isomerization, coherent vibrational wave‐packet motion, radical ion formation, and population relaxation. Using pump‐probe, pump‐repump‐probe, coherent two‐dimensional and three‐dimensional, triggered‐exchange 2D, and quantum‐control spectroscopy, we gain intuitive pictures on which product emerges from which reactant and which reactive molecular modes are associated.