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Optical Interrogation of Aromatic Moieties in Crude Oils and Asphaltenes

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Structures and Dynamics of Asphaltenes

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Optical spectroscopy provides an extremely powerful methodology to investigate molecular structure and molecular dynamics. Molecular structures are governed by favorable energetics of the spatial arrangement of constituent atoms and valence electrons. The energy of optical photons correlates with the excitation of valence electrons to higher energy orbitals thereby yielding a direct probe of molecular structure. Molecular dynamics are also amenable to investigation via optical spectroscopy. Pump-probe experiments, where the first photon excites the molecule into an evolving state and the second photon of known time delay interrogates the evolution of the molecule, have been applied to dynamics such as molecular dissociation at the femtosecond (10−15 sec) time scale. Intermolecular interactions in solutions are readily studied using optical fluorescence measurements. Typical fluorescence lifetimes are on the order of nanoseconds (10−9 sec) and can be used to probe a temporal range of diffusion-mediated intermolecular interactions.

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Mullins, O.C. (1998). Optical Interrogation of Aromatic Moieties in Crude Oils and Asphaltenes. In: Mullins, O.C., Sheu, E.Y. (eds) Structures and Dynamics of Asphaltenes. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1615-0_2

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