Browse by author
Lookup NU author(s): Professor Andrew Benniston, Emeritus Professor Anthony Harriman, James Rostron
Full text for this publication is not currently held within this repository. Alternative links are provided below where available.
The photophysical properties of the target compound are extremely sensitive to changes in solvent polarity since the lowest-energy excited states possess considerable charge-transfer character. Excitation results in a greatly increased dipole moment, with the resultant excited singlet state retaining a lifetime of ca. 1 ns in all solvents. Radiative decay involves coupling between the lowest-energy excited singlet state and both the ground state and an upper excited singlet state. The level of coupling to the upper singlet decreases in non-polar solvents, presumably due to symmetry factors. The radiative rate constant decreases smoothly with increasing solvent polarity function as the molecule acquires an ever increasing dipolar character. Non-radiative decay includes both intersystem crossing and internal conversion, but the former process dominates in polar solvents. The excited singlet state lifetime is very weakly dependent upon temperature in the solid state. However, in polar solutions where the Stokes' shift decreases with decreasing temperature, there is clear evidence for an activated process. This is believed to involve coupling to the upper-lying singlet excited state. © The Owner Societies 2005.
Author(s): Benniston AC, Harriman A, Rostron JP
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Year: 2005
Volume: 7
Issue: 16
Pages: 3041-3047
ISSN (print): 1463-9076
ISSN (electronic): 1463-9084
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b506776f
DOI: 10.1039/b506776f
PubMed id: 16186908
Altmetrics provided by Altmetric
