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Ultrafast Time-resolved Near-IR Stimulated Raman Measurements of Functional π-conjugate Systems
Published on: February 10, 2020
Solvent effects on resonance Raman and hyper-Raman scatterings for a centrosymmetric distyrylbenzene and relationship
Weinan Leng1, Guillermo C Bazan, Anne Myers Kelley
1School of Natural Sciences, University of California, P. O. Box 2039, Merced, California 95344, USA.
Abstract:
Resonance Raman (RR) and resonance hyper-Raman (RHR) spectra have been obtained for a nominally centrosymmetric dialkylammonium-substituted distyrylbenzene that was previously shown to exhibit a strong solvent polarity effect on its two-photon absorption strength. Spectra have been obtained in acetonitrile, methanol, dimethylsulfoxide, and water. In each solvent, the RR and RHR spectra show very similar intensity patterns in the strongest lines in both the C=C and C-C stretching regions, but the RHR peaks are shifted to higher energies by 5-10 cm(-1). These are interpreted as vibrations of similar mode character but different symmetries, with u symmetry modes observed in RHR and g symmetry modes in RR. In all solvents the nonzero chromophore contribution to the hyper-Rayleigh scattering indicates that the center of symmetry is broken to some degree, and this effect is more pronounced in water than in the other three solvents. The ratio of RR intensity to one-photon fluorescence intensity shows an approximate inverse relationship with the fluorescence quantum yield, consistent with the approximate solvent independence of the one-photon transition strength implied by the linear absorption spectra. The ratio of RHR intensity to two-photon fluorescence intensity is smaller than the corresponding RR to one-photon fluorescence ratio in all four solvents.
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