Abstract
Carotenoids are naturally occurring pigments essential for both light-harvesting and photoprotection in photosynthetic processes. Among these, carbonyl-containing carotenoids exhibit distinctive excited state properties due to the presence of intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) in their excited states. In this study, we synthesized a novel family of carotenoid analogs with varying numbers of conjugated double bonds, denoted as the Ind series, and conducted femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy on these molecules in both acetone and n-hexane. The objective was to elucidate how the excited-state dynamics depend on the conjugation length. The spectroscopic characterization of the Ind series revealed several unique features: the observation of stimulated emission from the 1Ag-/ICT state, the emergence of the 1nπ∗ state, triplet state formation mediated by the 1nπ∗ state, and an anomalous solvent dependence of the 1Ag-/ICT state lifetimes. The relationship between conjugation length and excited state dynamics, as well as the ICT character of the Ind series, are thoroughly discussed.
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