Polar solvation dynamics in water and methanol: search for molecularity |
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Authors: | Sajadi Mohsen Weinberger Michael Wagenknecht Hans-Achim Ernsting Nikolaus P |
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Institution: | Department of Chemistry, Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany. sajadimo@chemie.hu-berlin.de |
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Abstract: | Time-dependent Stokes shifts (TDSS) were measured for diverse polarity probes in water, heavy water, methanol, and benzonitrile, by broadband fluorescence up-conversion with 85 fs time resolution. In water the spectral dynamics is solute-independent and quantitatively described by simple dielectric continuum theory of solvation. In methanol the slower part of the TDSS is solute-dependent. A correlation with anisotropy decay suggests that methanol solvation dynamics is modulated by orientational solute diffusion. An empirical power law which links the solvation relaxation function of a mobile solute to that of an immobile solute is experimentally verified. Activation energies for the average relaxation rate are also given. Solvation dynamics in H(2)O and D(2)O are identical at and above 20 °C but diverge below. |
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