Donor energy transfer

Chemical properties of deposited monolayers have been studied in various ways. The degree of ionization of a substituted coumarin film deposited on quartz was determined as a function of the pH of a solution in contact with the film, from which comparison with Gouy-Chapman theory (see Section V-2) could be made [151]. Several studies have been made of the UV-induced polymerization of monolayers (as well as of multilayers) of diacetylene amphiphiles (see Refs. 168, 169). Excitation energy transfer has been observed in a mixed monolayer of donor and acceptor molecules in stearic acid [170]. Electrical properties have been of interest, particularly the possibility that a suitably asymmetric film might be a unidirectional conductor, that is, a rectifier (see Refs. 171, 172). Optical properties of interest include the ability to make planar optical waveguides of thick LB films [173, 174]. 

Figure C3.3.4. A schematic diagram of an apparatus described in the text for studying vibrational energy transfer to small bath molecules from donor molecules having chemically significant amounts of internal vibrational energy.

As a first step in imderstanding the analysis of energy transfer experiments, it is wortliwhile to summarize tire steps in a typical experiment where CgFg is tire hot donor and carbon dioxide is tire bath receptor molecule. First, excited... 

The coupling remains relatively weak even at tire otlier extreme of distance, where tire energy transfer occurs witliin a single piece of matter and tire donor and acceptor are separated by, let us say, only a few nanometres. 

More recently Andrews and Juzeliunas [6, 7] developed a unified tlieory that embraces botli radiationless (Forster) and long-range radiative energy transfer. In otlier words tliis tlieory is valid over tire whole span of distances ranging from tliose which characterize molecular stmcture (nanometres) up to cosmic distances. It also addresses tire intennediate range where neitlier tire radiative nor tire Forster mechanism is fully valid. Below is tlieir expression for tire rate of pairwise energy transfer w from donor to acceptor, applicable to transfer in systems where tire donor and acceptor are embedded in a transparent medium of refractive index ... 

The K factors in (C3.4.1) represent another very important facet of tire energy transfer [4, H]. These factors depend on tire orientations of tire donor and acceptor. For certain orientations tliey can reduce tire rate of energy transfer to zero—for otliers tliey effect an enhancement of tire energy transfer to its maximum possible rate. Figure C3.4.1 exhibits tire angles which define tire mutual orientation of a donor and acceptor pair in tenns of Arose angles the orientation factors and are given by [6, 7]... 

The measurement of fluorescence intensity from a compound containing cliromophores of two spectral types is an example of a system for which it is reasonable to operate witli tire average rates of energy transfer between spectral pools of molecules. Let us consider tire simple case of two spectral pools of donor and acceptor molecules, as illustrated in figure C3.4.2 [18]. The average rate of energy transfer can be calculated as... 

Figure C3.4.2. Schematic presentation of energy transfer between (a) two donor molecules and six acceptor molecules and (b) a general case of energy transfer involving a pool of A donor molecules and a pool of M acceptor molecules.

Excited states and energy transfer from donor cations to rare earths in the condensed phase. R. Reisfeld, Struct. Bonding (Berlin), 1976, 30, 65-97 (74). 

Reisfeld R (1976) Excited States and Energy Transfer from Donor Cations to Rare Earths in the Condensed Phase. 30 65-97... 

The occurrence of energy transfer requires electronic interactions and therefore its rate decreases with increasing distance. Depending on the interaction mechanism, the distance dependence may follow a 1/r (resonance (Forster) mechanism) or e (exchange (Dexter) mechanisms) [ 1 ]. In both cases, energy transfer is favored by overlap between the emission spectrum of the donor and the absorption spectrum of the acceptor. 

Self-assembly of functionalized carboxylate-core dendrons around Er +, Tb +, or Eu + ions leads to the formation of dendrimers [19]. Experiments carried out in toluene solution showed that UV excitation of the chromophoric groups contained in the branches caused the sensitized emission of the lanthanide ion, presumably by an energy transfer Forster mechanism. The much lower sensitization effect found for Eu + compared with Tb + was ascribed to a weaker spectral overlap, but it could be related to the fact that Eu + can quench the donor excited state by electron transfer [20]. 

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