Ultrafast elementary photochemical processes of organic molecules in liquid solution

T Kumpulainen, B Lang, A Rosspeintner… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Ultrafast photochemical reactions in liquids occur on similar or shorter time scales compared
to the equilibration of the optically populated excited state. This equilibration involves the …

Looking at photoinduced charge transfer processes in the IR: answers to several long-standing questions

B Dereka, M Koch, E Vauthey - Accounts of chemical research, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Because of its crucial role in many areas of science and technology,
photoinduced electron transfer is the most investigated photochemical reaction. Despite this …

The excited-state dynamics of the radical anions of cyanoanthracenes

JS Beckwith, A Aster, E Vauthey - Physical Chemistry Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The radical anion of 9, 10-dicyanoanthracene (DCA) has been suggested to be a promising
chromophore for photoredox chemistry, due to its nanosecond excited-state lifetime …

Direct visualization of excited-state symmetry breaking using ultrafast time-resolved infrared spectroscopy

B Dereka, A Rosspeintner, Z Li, R Liska… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Most symmetric quadrupolar molecules designed for two-photon absorption behave as
dipolar molecules in the S1 electronic excited state. This is usually explained by a breakup …

Electron transfer through rigid organic molecular wires enhanced by electronic and electron–vibration coupling

J Sukegawa, C Schubert, X Zhu, H Tsuji, DM Guldi… - Nature Chemistry, 2014 - nature.com
Electron transfer (ET) is a fundamental process in a wide range of biological systems,
photovoltaics and molecular electronics. Therefore to understand the relationship between …

From fundamental theories to quantum coherences in electron transfer

SR Rather, GD Scholes - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Photoinduced electron transfer (ET) is a cornerstone of energy transduction from light to
chemistry. The past decade has seen tremendous advances in the possible role of quantum …

Spin-allowed transitions control the formation of triplet excited states in orthogonal donor-acceptor dyads

JT Buck, AM Boudreau, A DeCarmine, RW Wilson… - Chem, 2019 - cell.com
Triplet excited states (triplets) serve as key intermediates in critical technologies and
processes ranging from organic synthesis to biomedicine to molecular electronics …

Solute–solvent interactions and excited-state symmetry breaking: Beyond the dipole–dipole and the hydrogen-bond interactions

B Dereka, E Vauthey - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2017 - ACS Publications
Symmetry breaking of the excited state of a linear quadrupolar acceptor–donor–acceptor
molecule was investigated using time-resolved infrared spectroscopy in 55 solvents …

Quantum Confinement-Tunable Ultrafast Charge Transfer at the PbS Quantum Dot and Phenyl-C61-butyric Acid Methyl Ester Interface

AO El-Ballouli, E Alarousu, M Bernardi… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Quantum dot (QD) solar cells have emerged as promising low-cost alternatives to existing
photovoltaic technologies. Here, we investigate charge transfer and separation at PbS QDs …

Bimolecular photoinduced electron transfer beyond the diffusion limit: the Rehm–Weller experiment revisited with femtosecond time resolution

A Rosspeintner, G Angulo… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
To access the intrinsic, diffusion free, rate constant of bimolecular photoinduced electron
transfer reactions, fluorescence quenching experiments have been performed with 14 …