Coherent Vibrational Dynamics in the Ground State

Author(s):  
Gianluca Levi
2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erez Gershgoren ◽  
Sanford Ruhman ◽  
Jiri Vala ◽  
Ronnie Kosloff

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clinton Johnson ◽  
Kai C. Gronborg ◽  
Thomas Brinzer ◽  
Zhe Ren ◽  
Sean Garrett-Roe

<p>Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2D-IR) probes the local solvent structure and dynamics of the nu<sub>3</sub> mode (BH antisymmetric stretch) of borohydride (BH<sub>4</sub><sup>-</sup> ) in aqueous solution. The 2D-IR spectra of the BH stretches have broad and overlapping bands. Vibrational energy relaxation occurs on a 2 ps timescale. Energy that is initially deposited in BH stretching modes and directly in the solvent generates a long lived hot ground state. Before the hot ground state appears, some indications of intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution are observed. The solvent viscosity was varied (1.5–6 cP) by increasing the hydroxide concentration (0.1–7 M). Within the vibrational lifetime of the BH stretching modes, the rate of structural relaxation slows proportionally to the viscosity due to the overlap of the ions’s solvation shells.</p>


2004 ◽  
Vol 102 (21-22) ◽  
pp. 2277-2283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Álvaro Valdés * ◽  
Rita Prosmiti ◽  
Pablo Villarreal ◽  
Gerardo Delgado-Barrio

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (9) ◽  
pp. 771-784 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Heid ◽  
S. Schlücker ◽  
U. Schmitt ◽  
T. Chen ◽  
R. Schweitzer-Stenner ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clinton Johnson ◽  
Kai C. Gronborg ◽  
Thomas Brinzer ◽  
Zhe Ren ◽  
Sean Garrett-Roe

<p>Two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy (2D-IR) probes the local solvent structure and dynamics of the nu<sub>3</sub> mode (BH antisymmetric stretch) of borohydride (BH<sub>4</sub><sup>-</sup> ) in aqueous solution. The 2D-IR spectra of the BH stretches have broad and overlapping bands. Vibrational energy relaxation occurs on a 2 ps timescale. Energy that is initially deposited in BH stretching modes and directly in the solvent generates a long lived hot ground state. Before the hot ground state appears, some indications of intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution are observed. The solvent viscosity was varied (1.5–6 cP) by increasing the hydroxide concentration (0.1–7 M). Within the vibrational lifetime of the BH stretching modes, the rate of structural relaxation slows proportionally to the viscosity due to the overlap of the ions’s solvation shells.</p>


Author(s):  
Ben O. Spurlock ◽  
Milton J. Cormier

The phenomenon of bioluminescence has fascinated layman and scientist alike for many centuries. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a number of observations were reported on the physiology of bioluminescence in Renilla, the common sea pansy. More recently biochemists have directed their attention to the molecular basis of luminosity in this colonial form. These studies have centered primarily on defining the chemical basis for bioluminescence and its control. It is now established that bioluminescence in Renilla arises due to the luciferase-catalyzed oxidation of luciferin. This results in the creation of a product (oxyluciferin) in an electronic excited state. The transition of oxyluciferin from its excited state to the ground state leads to light emission.


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