Decreased radical recombination efficiency quantum yields

Even more straightforward evidence in favor of recombination to the triplet state was obtained by heavy-atom substitution into the fluorescence quencher, which also enhances the rate of spin conversion. By measuring the transient absorption of both ion radicals and the triplet products of their recombination, it was demonstrated that the quantum yield of triplets increases when the charge separation yield 9(0) decreases as a result of heavy-atom substitution [225]. As was shown in Figure 3.76, triplet state is faster than to the singlet state, while the quantum yield of triplets produced from the singlet precursor only increases with ks. Hence these data also indicate that the triplet channel of recombination is the most efficient. 

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