Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.105, No.13, 5377-5379, 1996
The Ultrafast Intramolecular Dynamics of Phthalocyanine and Porphyrin Derivatives
The internal conversion and intramolecular vibrational relaxation processes of nitro-tri-tert-butylphthalocyanine, tetra-phenylporphyrin (TPP), and tetra-tert-butylphthalocyanine (BuPc) in chloroform solution were investigated with an ultrafast time-resolved fluorescence depletion method. A regular fluorescence depletion was observed, indicating that the vibrational relaxation in the S-1 state takes a few hundred femtoseconds to several picoseconds. For TPP and BuPc, an additional sharp dip superposes on the regular depletion. It is explained by an ultrafast internal conversion process from the S-2 State to the S-1 state with a time of a few tens of femtoseconds.