title: Ultrafast vibrational frequency shifts induced by electronic excitations: naphthols in low dielectric media.
abstract: We study the solvent-induced frequency shifts of the OH-stretching mode of 1-naphthol and 2-naphthol in nonpolar/weakly polar solvents, subject to electronic excitation, with ultrafast UV/mid-infrared pump-probe spectroscopy and theoretical modeling based on Pullin's perturbative treatment of vibrational solvatochromic effects. The model is parametrized at the density functional theory (DFT) level, including the B3LYP/TZVP and TD-B3LYP/TZVP descriptions, for the naphthol chromophores in the S(0)- and (1)L(b)-states and accounts for both the static and the optical dielectric response of the solvent on time scales comparable to that of the OH-stretching vibrational motions. The favorable comparison between experimental and theoretical values of the solvent-induced vibrational frequency shifts suggests that the ultrafast dielectric response of the solvent contributes predominantly to the solvatochromic shifts in solvents of moderate polarity where specific solute-solvent interactions are absent.
authors: Department of Chemistry, Yale University, P.O. Box 208107, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, USA.
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