Direct measurement of solvent cage dynamics following photodissociation of iodine using picosecond Raman spectroscopy

Abstract

Photodissociation of iodine in CCl4 at 532 nm deposits 6300 cm−1 of energy into the solvent cage immediately surrounding the solute. Picosecond Raman spectroscopy has been used to investigate the dissipation of this energy in the solvent coordinate by monitoring time-dependent shifts in the Raman lineshapes of the local solvent cage.