Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering Science and Kyokugen, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
Abstract:
We have studied femtosecond ground state recovery dynamics of phenol blue (PB) by pump-probe spectroscopy with a time resolution of 33 fs. Multiexponential decay with time constants extending from 300 fs to 10 ps were observed. Some low frequency intramolecular quantum beats were also observed. Solvent dependence of these decays and beats are discussed.