Issue 46, 2013

Excited state dynamics of β-carotene studied by means of transient absorption spectroscopy and multivariate curve resolution alternating least-squares analysis

Abstract

Determination of the excited-state dynamics of carotenoids has attracted considerable interest, engendering a number of controversial hypotheses because of the strongly overlapping spectral peaks and complicated dynamics of transient species. In the present work, aiming for better understanding the complexity of excited-state processes in carotenoids, excited-state dynamics of all-trans-β-carotene in ethanol was investigated by femtosecond pump–probe spectroscopy. Following the excitation of the strongly allowed S2 state of the β-carotene, transient absorption spectra were recorded in the visible spectral range. For comparison, the time-resolved transient absorption spectra are analyzed in a conventional way, fitting kinetic traces with a multi-exponential function at chosen wavelengths from obtained spectra, and then again by means of the soft-modeling multivariate curve resolution alternating least-squares analysis (MCR-ALS) method for modeling pure profiles and the generalized two-dimensional (2D) correlation spectroscopy data analysis for providing additional information on the dynamics of spectral features. MCR-ALS analysis shows that both the dynamics of the S* state, identified using the 2D correlation spectra, and the S1 state develop on a different timescale than the relaxation of the vibrationally hot S1v′ state. Hot S1v′ and S* states are shown to have different species associated difference spectra. Results of our analysis indicate that the S* state observed in this work is not the hot S1v′ state but instead a separate singlet state.

Graphical abstract: Excited state dynamics of β-carotene studied by means of transient absorption spectroscopy and multivariate curve resolution alternating least-squares analysis

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
05 Aug 2013
Accepted
07 Oct 2013
First published
09 Oct 2013

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013,15, 20026-20036

Excited state dynamics of β-carotene studied by means of transient absorption spectroscopy and multivariate curve resolution alternating least-squares analysis

S. Vdović, Y. Wang, B. Li, M. Qiu, X. Wang, Q. Guo and A. Xia, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2013, 15, 20026 DOI: 10.1039/C3CP53323A

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