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The dynamics of the coherent photoisomerization of the 11-cis-retinal in bovine rhodopsin is studied by femtosecond time-resolved laser absorption spectroscopy with a resolution of 30 fs. Rhodopsin is excited with 500-, 535-, and 560-nm femtosecond pulses to produce different initial Franck-Condon states with different vibrational energies of the molecule in its electronically excited state. The time evolution of the photoinduced differential absorption spectra of rhodopsin is measured upon excitation with a femtosecond pulse in a spectral range from 400 to 720 nm. Oscillations in the time-resolved absorption of the rhodopsin photoproducts, such as photorhodopsin with a vibrationally excited all-trans-retinal and in its initial-state rhodopsin with a vibrationally excited 11-cis-retinal, are examined. It is demonstrated that these oscillations reflect the dynamics of coherent vibrational wavepackets. The Fourier transform of these oscillatory components yields frequencies, amplitudes, and initial phases of various vibrational modes involved in the motion the wavepackets in both photoproducts. The main vibrational modes manifest themselves at frequencies of 62 and 160 cm−1 for photorhodopsin and 44 and 142 cm−1 for initial-state rhodopsin. It is shown that these vibrational modes are directly involved in the coherent reaction under the study, with their amplitudes in the power spectrum produced by the Fourier transform of the kinetic curves being dependent on the wavelength of rhodopsin excitation.
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Original Russian Text © I.V. Shelaev, M.N. Mozgovaya, O.A. Smitienko, F.E. Gostev, T.B. Fel’dman, V.A. Nadtochenko, O.M. Sarkisov, M.A. Ostrovskii, 2014, published in Khimicheskaya Fizika, 2014, Vol. 33, No. 7, pp. 39–46.
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Shelaev, I.V., Mozgovaya, M.N., Smitienko, O.A. et al. Femtosecond dynamics of primary processes in visual pigment rhodopsin. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. B 8, 510–517 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990793114040101
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