Top Curr Chem (Z) (2018) 376:10
https://doi.org/10.1007/s41061-017-0180-1
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Electronic Couplings in (Bio‑) Chemical Processes
Margherita Maiuri
1
· Johanna Brazard
2
Received: 7 September 2017 / Accepted: 1 December 2017 / Published online: 20 March 2018
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Abstract During the last two decades, 2D optical techniques have been extended
to the visible range, targeting electronic transitions. Since the report of the very first
2D electronic measurement (Hybl et al. in J Chem Phys 115:6606–6622, [2001]),
two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES) has allowed fundamentally new
insights into the structure and dynamics of condensed-phase systems (Ginsberg et al.
in Acc Chem Res 42:1352–1363, 2009; Jonas in Annu Rev Phys Chem 54:425–463,
2003), producing experiments that measure correlations among electronic states of
an absorbing species within complex systems. 2DES is used to investigate photophysical phenomena involving electronic or vibrational couplings in multi-chromophoric systems [energy transfer in photosynthesis is one great example of how 2DES
can disentangle various energy transfer pathways (Brixner et al. in Nature 625–628,
2005; Engel et al. in Nature 446:782–786, 2007; Collini et al. in Nature 463:644–
647, 2010)], but also ultrafast photochemical processes in which the tracked molecules change permanently or are heterogeneous (Ruetzel et al. in Proc Natl Acad Sci
111:4764–4769, 2014; Consani et al. in Science 339:1586–1589, 2013). We divide
this chapter according to some of the major areas that have been established thanks
to 2DES in the following fields: heterogeneity of systems, excitation energy transfer
* Margherita Maiuri
margherita.maiuri@polimi.it
Johanna Brazard
johanna.brazard@ipcms.unistra.fr
1
Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano,
Italy
2
Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg - CNRS
UMR 7504, 67034 Strasbourg, France
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Chapter 2 was originally published as Maiuri, M. & Brazard, J. Top Curr Chem (Z) (2018) 376: 10.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s41061-017-0180-1.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s41061-017-0180-1
1 3
REVIEW
Electronic Couplings in (Bio‑) Chemical Processes
Margherita Maiuri
1
· Johanna Brazard
2
Received: 7 September 2017 / Accepted: 1 December 2017 / Published online: 20 March 2018
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Abstract During the last two decades, 2D optical techniques have been extended
to the visible range, targeting electronic transitions. Since the report of the very first
2D electronic measurement (Hybl et al. in J Chem Phys 115:6606–6622, [2001]),
two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy (2DES) has allowed fundamentally new
insights into the structure and dynamics of condensed-phase systems (Ginsberg et al.
in Acc Chem Res 42:1352–1363, 2009; Jonas in Annu Rev Phys Chem 54:425–463,
2003), producing experiments that measure correlations among electronic states of
an absorbing species within complex systems. 2DES is used to investigate photophysical phenomena involving electronic or vibrational couplings in multi-chromophoric systems [energy transfer in photosynthesis is one great example of how 2DES
can disentangle various energy transfer pathways (Brixner et al. in Nature 625–628,
2005; Engel et al. in Nature 446:782–786, 2007; Collini et al. in Nature 463:644–
647, 2010)], but also ultrafast photochemical processes in which the tracked molecules change permanently or are heterogeneous (Ruetzel et al. in Proc Natl Acad Sci
111:4764–4769, 2014; Consani et al. in Science 339:1586–1589, 2013). We divide
this chapter according to some of the major areas that have been established thanks
to 2DES in the following fields: heterogeneity of systems, excitation energy transfer
* Margherita Maiuri
margherita.maiuri@polimi.it
Johanna Brazard
johanna.brazard@ipcms.unistra.fr
1
Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano,
Italy
2
Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg - CNRS
UMR 7504, 67034 Strasbourg, France
27
Reprinted from the journal
Chapter 2 was originally published as Maiuri, M. & Brazard, J. Top Curr Chem (Z) (2018) 376: 10.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s41061-017-0180-1.