title: Coherent excited state intramolecular proton transfer probed by time-resolved fluorescence.
abstract: An ultra-fast chemical reaction can act as an impulsive excitation of the vibrations. Excited state intramolecular proton transfer in 10-hydroxybenzo[h]quinoline proceeds in 13 fs. As a result, product vibrational modes with their periods longer than (13 x 2) fs are coherently excited in the product potential surface, which can be observed most unambiguously by the oscillations in the time-resolved fluorescence signal of the product keto isomer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, South Korea.
authors.forename: Chul Hoon
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Taiha
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Joo
mesh_terms: D005453:Fluorescence; D011522:Protons
chemical_list: D011522:Protons