Bridged exciplex fluorescence

When the emissive state is a charge transfer state that is not attainable by direct excitation (e.g. which results from electron transfer in a donor-bridge-acceptor molecule see example at the end of the next section), the theories described above cannot be applied because the absorption spectrum of the charge transfer state is not known. Weller s theory for exciplexes is then more appropriate and only deals with the shift of the fluorescence spectrum, which is given by... 

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