Stokes Raman band

Figure 3.17 presents ps-TR spectra of the olehnic C=C Raman band region (a) and the low wavenumber anti-Stokes and Stokes region (b) of Si-rra i-stilbene in chloroform solution obtained at selected time delays upto 100 ps. Inspection of Figure 3.17 (a) shows that the Raman bandwidths narrow and the band positions up-shift for the olehnic C=C stretch Raman band over the hrst 20-30 ps. Similarly, the ratios of the Raman intensity in the anti-Stokes and Stokes Raman bands in the low frequency region also vary noticeably in the hrst 20-30 ps. In order to better understand the time-dependent changes in the Raman band positions and anti-Stokes/Stokes intensity ratios, a least squares htting of Lorentzian band shapes to the spectral bands of interest was performed to determine the Raman band positions for the olehnic... 

Raman Selection Rules. For polyatomic molecules a number of Stokes Raman bands are observed, each corresponding to an allowed transition between two vibrational energy levels of the molecule. (An allowed transition is one for which the intensity is not uniquely zero owing to symmetry.) As in the case of infrared spectroscopy (see Exp. 38), only the fundamental transitions (corresponding to frequencies v, V2, v, ...) are usually intense enough to be observed, although weak overtone and combination Raman bands are sometimes detected. For molecules with appreciable symmetry, some fundamental transitions may be absent in the Raman and/or infrared spectra. The essential requirement is that the transition moment F (whose square determines the intensity) be nonzero i.e.. 

Highly efficient notch filters that eliminate the Rayleigh line and transmit both the Stokes- and anti-Stokes Raman bands, or edge filters that transmit only the Stokes Raman bands and block all shorter-wavelength radiation. 

The reason for this rivalry is that the spontaneous Raman scattering is a weak effect and thus it is essential to optimise the experimental set-up. The crucial factor is that the efficiency of the Raman scattering process has one of the highest power dependencies on frequency of any optical effect. This efficiency is proportional to frequency to the fourth power and the intensity of a Stokes Raman band of a shift frequency is governed by... 

Figure 6.10 Illustration of an absorption leading to an anti-Stokes Raman band. Note that the molecule is initially in a vibrationally excited state.

Note the very intense exciting line in the center (marked 0 cm ). Both Stokes and anti-Stokes Raman bands are shown. 

C=C stretch 1570 cirr band and intensity ratios of the anti-Stokes/Stokes 285cnT Raman band. Results from this analysis are shown in Figure 3.18. ... 

Figure 3.18. Time dependence of the peak position of the 1570 cm Raman band of Sj trans-stilbene in chloroform solution (filled triangle). The time dependence of the anti-Stokes/Stokes intensity ratio is also shown with open circles. The best fit of the peak position change with a single-exponential function is shown with a solid curve, while the best fit of the anti-Stokes/Stokes intensity ratio is shown with a dotted curve. The obtained lifetime for both single-exponential decay functions was 12ps. (Reprinted with permission from reference [78]. Copyright (1997) American Chemical Society.)...

Anti-Stokes picosecond TR spectra were also obtained with pump-probe time delays over the 0 to 10 ps range and selected spectra are shown in Figure 3.33. The anti-Stokes Raman spectrum at Ops indicates that hot, unrelaxed, species are produced. The approximately 1521 cm ethylenic stretch Raman band vibrational frequency also suggests that most of the Ops anti-Stokes TR spectrum is mostly due to the J intermediate. The 1521 cm Raman band s intensity and its bandwidth decrease with a decay time of about 2.5 ps, and this can be attributed the vibrational cooling and conformational relaxation of the chromophore as the J intermediate relaxes to produce the K intermediate.This very fast relaxation of the initially hot J intermediate is believed to be due to strong coupling between the chromophore the protein bath that can enable better energy transfer compared to typical solute-solvent interactions. ... 

Before melting and for some time after only the band at 625 cm of the AA [C4CiIm]+ cation was observed in the 600-630 cm i region. Gradually 603 cm i band due to the GA conformer became stronger. After about 10 min the AA/GA intensity ratio became constant. The interpretation [50] is that the rotational isomers do not interconvert momentarily at the molecular level. Most probably it involves a conversion of a larger local structure as a whole. The existence of such local structures of different rotamers has been found by optical heterodyne-detected Raman-induced Kerr-effect spectroscopy (OHD-RIKES) [82], Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) [83],... 

As the time scale of the Raman scattering event ( 3.3 x 10 14 s for a vibration with a Stokes wave number shift of 1000 cm 1 excited in the visible) is much shorter than that of the fastest conformational fluctuations, an ROA spectrum is a superposition of snapshot spectra from all the distinct conformations present in a sample at equilibrium. Since ROA observables depend on absolute chirality, there is a cancellation of contributions from enantiomeric structures arising as a mobile structure explores the range of accessible conformations. Therefore, ROA exhibits an enhanced sensitivity to the dynamic aspects of biomolecular structure. In contrast, conventional Raman band intensities are blind to chirality and so are generally additive and therefore less sensitive to conformational mobility. Ultraviolet circular dichroism (UVCD) also demonstrates an enhanced sensitivity to the dynamics of chiral structures ... 

XN.R., the non-resonant susceptibility, gives rise to the background interference in Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (CARS) (J5). This interference which arises from solvents or closely spaced lines is responsible for the CARS band shape distortion observed under certain conditions. 

Mizutani and Kitagawa measured the time-dependent Stokes and anti-Stokes Raman intensities of the heme v4 band after photoexcitation and used the relative intensities to estimate its temperature and thermal relaxation dynamics (30). They found the population relaxation to occur biexponen-tially with 1.9 ps (93%) and 16 ps (7%) time constants. The dominant 1.9 ps population relaxation correlates with a 3.0 ps thermal relaxation, which is a factor of 2 faster than the ensemble averaged temperature relaxation deduced from the near-IR study of band III. The kinetic energy retained within a photoexcited heme need not be distributed uniformly among all the vibrational degrees of freedom, nor must the energy of all vibrational modes decay at the same rate. Consequently, a 6.2 ps ensemble-averaged estimate of the heme thermal relaxation is not necessarily inconsistent with a 3 ps relaxation of v4. 

Scan the Stokes Raman spectrum of CCI4 for shifts of 150 to 1000 cm from the exciting line.t Note that the frequency in wavenumbers is given by v (cm ) = 1/A = vie, where c is the speed of light in cm s Record both parallel and perpendicular polarization scans so that you can determine the depolarization ratio of aU bands. Indicate the spectrometer wavelength or wavenumber reading on the chart at several points in the scan to provide reference points for the determination of the Raman shifts for all bands. 

The temperature dependence of the Q branch in the Stokes region of a vibrational-rotational Raman band is described by... 

Ratios of integrated intensities of Stokes and anti-Stokes vibrational Raman bands... 

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