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Ultrafast photoisomerization and its single-shot pump pulse efficiency of trans-azobenzene derivative : Compound for photosensitive DNA
| Title: | Ultrafast photoisomerization and its single-shot pump pulse efficiency of trans-azobenzene derivative : Compound for photosensitive DNA |
| Authors: | Chen, Tao Browse this author | | Yamaguchi, Atsushi Browse this author | | Igarashi, Kazumasa Browse this author | | Nakagawa, Naoya Browse this author | | Nishioka, Hidenori Browse this author | | Asanuma, Hiroyuki Browse this author | | Yamashita, Mikio Browse this author →KAKEN DB |
| Keywords: | Photoisomerization | | femtosecond phenomena | | photosensitive DNA material |
| Issue Date: | 15-Mar-2012 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier B.V. |
| Journal Title: | Optics Communications |
| Volume: | 285 |
| Issue: | 6 |
| Start Page: | 1206 |
| End Page: | 1211 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1016/j.optcom.2011.10.032 |
| Abstract: | The femtosecond photoisomerization processes of trans (T) 4-carboxy-2',6'-dimethylazobenzen, which has been employed recently as an efficient photoregulator of DNA hybridization, were clarified by the rate equation analysis of measured transient absorbance changes with (350 nm) and without (380 nm) ground-state absorption of both the reactant (T) and photoproduct (cis: C) isomers under S_[2]^[T]-band excitation (360 nm, 150 fs pump): after excitation to the S_[2]^[T] state with a 450-fs lifetime, ∼1.5% of the T-molecules in the S_[2]^[T] state are isomerized to the C-form within ∼6 ps through the intermediate state (so called bottleneck state), but most of those return back to the T ground-state S_[0]^[T] via the internal conversion processes with an ultrafast kinetic rate of 2.2×10^[12] s^[-1]. Moreover, the rate equation analysis enables us to determine the T-to-C photoisomerization rate η^[T,C] per pump pulse to be 0.0011 at the pump energy of 80 nJ from the amplitude A_[3,350] of the offset component in the 350-nm probe signal, and to obtain the photoisomerization quantum yield Φ^[T,C] =0.094. The latter value is slightly lower than that of T-azobenzene, and well agrees with that (Φ^[T,C]=0.097) measured by the conventional CW irradiation method using a photostationary state. |
| Type: | article (author version) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/48559 |
| Appears in Collections: | 工学院・工学研究院 (Graduate School of Engineering / Faculty of Engineering) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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Submitter: 山下 幹雄
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