Journal of Chemical Physics p. 4827 - 4835 (1992)
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Nikowa, L.
Schwarzer, D.
Troe, J.
Schroeder, J.
The photoisomerization of cis-stilbene in liquid solution was studied by time-resolved excited-state absorption spectroscopy using 306 nm pump and 612 nm probe pulses of 100 fs width.Transient absorption signals were found to decrease exponentially with time.Decay rate constants were determined over the pressure range 1-4000 bars at temperatures of 295 and 390 K in a series of alkane solvents as well as in methanol, acetonitrile, and in polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA).The viscosity dependence confirms the existence of two pathways of the reaction, one leading to ground-state cis-and trans-stilbene (C/TS), the other to dihydrophenanthrene (DHP).Whereas the DHP component shows only little viscosity dependence up to 4 kbar, the C/TS component is characterized by rate constants which are inversely proportional to the solvent viscosity.This is in contrast to earlier conclusions from studies with solvents at 1 bar.The C/TS process shows practically no temperature dependence apart from that of the viscosity, whereas the DHP process has an apparent activation energy of 8.5 kJ mol-1.The results are interpreted in terms of a Kramers-Smoluchowski equation for low-barrier processes as well as by solvent modifications of the low-barrier potential.Alternative interpretations by rate theory for barrierless processes are considered as well.
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