Transient hole burning measurements on dimethyl‐s‐tetrazine in n‐butylbenzene are reported from the low‐viscosity room‐temperature liquid down to the low‐temperature glass. The results give a detailed picture of the solvation of a nonpolar solute in a nonpolar solvent. The dynamics separate into a phonon modulated and a structural component, as was found previously for polar solvents. The structural component is frozen in the glass, but its relaxation rate increases into the subpicosecond range with increasing temperature. The time decay of the structural relaxation is highly nonexponential. The coupling of the solute electronic state to the structural coordinates is close to linear, but the coupling to the phonon coordinates cannot be accounted for by simple linear or quadratic coupling models. Effects are also found that are attributed to changes in coupling constants with changing density.
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15 May 1993
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May 15 1993
Temperature‐dependent ultrafast solvation dynamics in a completely nonpolar system
John T. Fourkas;
John T. Fourkas
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
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Mark Berg
Mark Berg
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
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J. Chem. Phys. 98, 7773–7785 (1993)
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Received:
October 28 1992
Accepted:
February 01 1993
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John T. Fourkas, Mark Berg; Temperature‐dependent ultrafast solvation dynamics in a completely nonpolar system. J. Chem. Phys. 15 May 1993; 98 (10): 7773–7785. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.464585
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