Anthracenes time-resolved spectra

One of the most commonly studied systems involves the adsorption of polynuclear aromatic compounds on amorphous or certain crystalline silica-alumina catalysts. The aromatic compounds such as anthracene, perylene, and naphthalene are characterized by low ionization potentials, and upon adsorption they form paramagnetic species which are generally attributed to the appropriate cation radical (69, 70). An analysis of the well-resolved spectrum of perylene on silica-alumina shows that the proton hyperfine coupling constants are shifted by about four percent from the corresponding values obtained when the radical cation is prepared in H2SO4 (71). The linewidth and symmetry require that the motion is appreciable and that the correlation times are comparable to those found in solution. 

Fig. 5 (A) Typical time-resolved picosecond absorption spectrum following the charge-transfer excitation of tropylium EDA complexes with arenes (anthracene-9-carbaldehyde) showing the bleaching (negative absorbance) of the charge-transfer absorption band and the growth of the aromatic cation radical. (B) Temporal evolution of ArH+- monitored at Amax. The inset shows the first-order plot of the ion...

Fluorescence spectroscopy was used also as a detection tool in case of a peptide based [2]rotaxane [72]. It was observed that in polar solvents like dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) fluorescence emission spectra were virtually same like those of the thread alone. Since fluorescence origins in this rotaxane from anthracene group, it was concluded that hydrogen bonds linking the macrocycle to the anthracene-based stopper were broken and the macrocycle resided on the alkyl side of the thread. When the solvent was hardly polar like 1,4-dioxane, the macrocycle rest bonded to the anthracene stopper and the spectrum broadened and red-shifted. By mean of time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy, the authors demonstrated that it was... 

Other excitation energies Other than the ones at S, + 1380 and S, + 1420 cm-, there are three prominent bands in the intermediate region of jet-cooled anthracene s excitation spectrum. Time- and frequency-resolved measurements subsequent to excitation of these bands have also been made. Without going into any detail concerning the results of these measurements, we do note that all three excitations give rise to quantum beat-modulated decays whose beat patterns (phases and modulation depths) depend on the fluorescence band detected.42 Figure 16 shows an example of this behavior for excitation to S, + 1514 cm-1. The two decays in the figure correspond to the detection of two different fluorescence bands in the S, + 1514 cm-1 fluorescence spectrum. 

Nanosecond Flash Photolysis Measurements.—A computer-controlled ns flash photolysis spectrometer has been described. " The system was employed in a study of the photochemistry of xanthene dyes in solution. A nitrogen laser was used to provide 2—3 mJ excitation pulses at 337.1 nm for a ns flash photolysis study of electron-transfer reactions of phenolate ions with aromatic carbonyl triplets. " A PDP II computer was used to control the transient digitizer employed for detection, and to subsequently process the data. A nanosecond transient absorption spectrophotometer has been constructed using a tunable dye laser in a pulse-probe conflguration with up to 100 ns probe delayA method for reconstructing the time-resolved transient absorption was discussed and results presented for anthracene in acetonitrile solution. The time-resolution of ns flash photolysis may be greatly increased by consideration of the integral under the transient absorption spectrum. Decay times comparable to or shorter than the excitation flash may be determined by this method. 

Figure 22. Time- and frequency-resolved fluorescence of jet-cooled d, -anthracene (top) and d10-anthracene (bottom). The d, decay corresponds to excitation toS, + 1411cm-1 and detection of the 388 cm-1 band in the fluorescence spectrum. The dl0 decay corresponds to excitation to St + 1452 cm-1 and detection of the 372 cm-1 band in the spectrum. Quantum beats are clearly present in both decays.

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