Abstract
Of the carotenoids known in photosynthetic organisms, peridinin exhibits one of the highest quantum efficiencies for excitation energy transfer to chlorophyll (Chl) a acceptors. The mechanism for this enhanced performance involves an order-of-magnitude slowing of the S2 (1(1)Bu(+)) → S1 (2(1)Ag(-)) nonradiative decay pathway compared to carotenoids lacking carbonyl substitution. Using femtosecond transient grating spectroscopy with optical heterodyne detection, we have obtained the first evidence that the nonradiative decay of the S2 state of peridinin is promoted by large-amplitude torsional motions. The decay of an intermediate state termed Sx, which we assign to a twisted form of the S2 state, is substantially slowed by solvent friction in peridinin due to its intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) character.
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