“…It is well established that certain low-frequency modes in photosynthetic chlorins strongly couple to the lowest-energy optical transition and that these frequencies correspond to those observed in time-domain vibrational coherence spectroscopy [13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22]. However, the vibronic sidebands observed in electronic spectra correspond to finger-print modes including C=C stretching for the Qx transition, and a 1235 cm −1 mode dominating the Qy excited Resonance Raman of Ni(II) Pheophytin a, which has been assigned to a C–N stretching mode [23]. Likewise, electronic and fluorescence spectroscopy of chlorophyll a finds typical frequencies of 1525 cm −1 and 1145 cm −1 from the vibronic bands [24].…”