Solvent-electronic state interactions measured from the glassy to the liquid state. II. Fluorescence line narrowing spectroscopy in glycerol

Fluorescence line narrowing spectroscopy is extended to the study of liquid state dynamics. Measurements are made on solutions of dimethyl-s-tetrazine in glycerol from room temperature to below the glass transition. The structural broadening identified in the preceding paper is related to a relaxation function by the use of a simple configuration coordinate model. This relaxation function is ∼150 times faster than the structural relaxation function measured by other experiments, showing that electronic state solvation is sensitive to a unique aspect of the structural dynamics of the liquid.