TY - JOUR
T1 - Electronic transitions of the Soret band of reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides studied by femtosecond transient absorbance spectroscopy
AU - Wang, Haiyu
AU - Lin, Su
AU - Woodbury, Neal
PY - 2006/5/6
Y1 - 2006/5/6
N2 - The Soret band of reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides has been systematically studied using femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. When the excitation wavelength was scanned over the entire Soret band, the approximate absorption spectra of the bacteriochlorophyll dimer, the monomer bacteriochlorophylls, and the bacteriopheophytins within the Soret band were determined by analyzing the ground state bleaching with about 100 fs resolution. The main contribution of H is on the blue end of the spectrum, peaking near 350 nm, P absorbs mostly on the red side of the spectrum, but probably has multiple bands, and the main absorbance of B likely lies between H and P, overlapping with P on the red side (particularly near 390 nm). The energy transfer from B to P in the QY band takes about 300 fs when Soret-band excitation is used and the time constant of overall energy transfer from H to B to P in the QY band when H is specifically excited near 350 nm is about 500 fs. Internal conversion after Soret-band excitation is the rate-limiting step for the energy-transfer process. The time constant of internal conversion for B and P is less than 300 fs, and for H it is about 500 fs.
AB - The Soret band of reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides has been systematically studied using femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. When the excitation wavelength was scanned over the entire Soret band, the approximate absorption spectra of the bacteriochlorophyll dimer, the monomer bacteriochlorophylls, and the bacteriopheophytins within the Soret band were determined by analyzing the ground state bleaching with about 100 fs resolution. The main contribution of H is on the blue end of the spectrum, peaking near 350 nm, P absorbs mostly on the red side of the spectrum, but probably has multiple bands, and the main absorbance of B likely lies between H and P, overlapping with P on the red side (particularly near 390 nm). The energy transfer from B to P in the QY band takes about 300 fs when Soret-band excitation is used and the time constant of overall energy transfer from H to B to P in the QY band when H is specifically excited near 350 nm is about 500 fs. Internal conversion after Soret-band excitation is the rate-limiting step for the energy-transfer process. The time constant of internal conversion for B and P is less than 300 fs, and for H it is about 500 fs.
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U2 - 10.1021/jp054850i
DO - 10.1021/jp054850i
M3 - Article
C2 - 16571008
AN - SCOPUS:33646368688
SN - 1520-6106
VL - 110
SP - 6956
EP - 6961
JO - Journal of Physical Chemistry B
JF - Journal of Physical Chemistry B
IS - 13
ER -