Abstract
Pump-repump-probe spectroscopy with a burst mode of photoexcitation was applied to the direct observation of the photoionization dynamics of perylene in the solution phase. Irradiation of a pump pulse train generated with birefringent crystals effectively accumulated an intermediate S1 state and a repump pulse triggered photoionization in the higher excited state, ensuring sufficiently large signal intensity to probe. Two-photon excitation to the energy level, which is 0.7 eV lower than the ionization potential in the gas phase, results in instantaneous formation of the radical cation of perylene in acetonitrile, unlike aromatic amines in previous reports. In addition, subsequent recombination dynamics between the radical cation and ejected electron was monitored in polar and nonpolar solvents. The ultrafast recombination in nonpolar solvents suggests that the distribution of the distance in the cation-ejected electron pair largely evolves even in acetonitrile in the femtosecond timescale, in which the solvation is not completed and the dielectric constant is still low. The recombination process in acetonitrile was well reproduced with simulations based on the Smoluchowski equation taking account of the transient change in the dielectric constant by solvation.
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