Electron quantum yield

The quantum yield for Aldrich HSX was significantly lower than that for Searsvllle Lake. The HXS quantum yield was lower In part because other phototransients, such as T475 were simultaneously produced In the more colored humic substance extract samples. Thus a given amount of absorbed photons created several transients from the absorbed photons measured by the actlnometer. It would be useful to have an estimated extinction coefficient for T475 to better understand the fate of photons absorbed by HSX solutions with ground state optical densities near 1.0 at 355 nm. Then the value calculated for the equated electron quantum yield would also be a better estimate. 

The END trajectories for the simultaneous dynamics of classical nuclei and quantum electrons will yield deflection functions. For collision processes with nonspherical targets and projectiles, one obtains one deflection function per orientation, which in turn yields the semiclassical phase shift and thus the scattering amplitude and the semiclassical differential cross-section... 

One characteristic property of dyes is their colour due to absorption from the ground electronic state Sq to the first excited singlet state Sj lying in the visible region. Also typical of a dye is a high absorbing power characterized by a value of the oscillator strength/ (see Equation 2.18) close to 1, and also a value of the fluorescence quantum yield (see Equation 7.135) close to 1. 

The blue luminescence observed during cool flames is said to arise from electronically excited formaldehyde (60,69). The high energy required indicates radical— radical reactions are producing hot molecules. Quantum yields appear to be very low (10 to 10 ) (81). Cool flames never deposit carbon, in contrast to hot flames which emit much more intense, yellowish light and may deposit carbon (82). 

In principle, one molecule of a chemiluminescent reactant can react to form one electronically excited molecule, which in turn can emit one photon of light. Thus one mole of reactant can generate Avogadro s number of photons defined as one einstein (ein). Light yields can therefore be defined in the same terms as chemical product yields, in units of einsteins of light emitted per mole of chemiluminescent reactant. This is the chemiluminescence quantum yield which can be as high as 1 ein/mol or 100%. 

The quantum yield of photosynthesis, the amount of product formed per equivalent of light input, has traditionally been expressed as the ratio of COg fixed or Og evolved per quantum absorbed. At each reaction center, one photon or quantum yields one electron. Interestingly, an overall stoichiometry of one translocated into the thylakoid vesicle for each photon has also been observed. Two photons per center would allow a pair of electrons to flow from HgO to NADP (Figure 22.12), resulting in the formation of 1 NADPH and Og. If one ATP were formed for every 3 H translocated during photosynthetic electron transport, 1 ATP would be synthesized. More appropriately, 4 hv per center (8 quanta total) would drive the evolution of 1 Og, the reduction of 2 NADP, and the phosphorylation of 2 ATP. 

The quantum yield of initiation is also low, approximately 2.07 X 10. This could be increased to 0.59 or 0.125 when 0.2 M of a strong electron doner (D) such as dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) or pyridine (Py) is used, respectively [36,37]. 

For copolymers of structure I, for both types of side-chains, there is a striking similarity with the optical properties of the corresponding models the absorption and photoluminescence maxima of the polymers arc only 0.08-0.09 eV red-shifted relative to those of the models, as shown in Figure 16-9 (left) for the octyloxy-substituted compounds. The small shift can be readily explained by the fact that in the copolymers the chromophorcs are actually substituted by silylene units, which have a weakly electron-donating character. The shifts between absorption and luminescence maxima are exactly the same for polymers and models and the width of the emission bands is almost identical. The quantum yields are only slightly reduced in the polymers. These results confirm that the active chro-mophores are the PPV-type blocks and that the silylene unit is an efficient re-conjugation interrupter. 

The electron transfer step is typically fast and efficient. Griller et a/.292 measured absolute rate constants for decay of benzophenone triplet in the presence of aliphatic tertiary amines in benzene as solvent. Values lie in die range 3-4x109 M 1 s 1 and quantum yields are close to unity. 

Figure 3. Energy diagram for 1064 nm excitation of PuFg(g). The 5f electron states of PuF6 are shown at the left. The solid arrows Indicate photon absorption or emission processes. The wavy arrows indicate nonradiative processes by which excited states of PuF6 are lost. Comparison of observed fluorescence photon yields versus the fluorescence quantum yield expected for the 4550 cm" state indicate that the PuFg state initially populated following 1064 nm excitation may dissociate as shown.

On the other hand. Type II process competes efficiently with the electron-transfer pathway in aerobic environments where the concentration of ground triplet state molecular oxygen is relatively high ( 0.27 mM), and singlet molecular oxygen (1O2) is the most abimdant ROS generated under these conditions, with a quantum yield 0.48 (Valle et al., 2011), eqn. 8. It is also possible an electron-transfer reaction from 3RF to 02 to form anion superoxide, but this reaction occurs with very low efficiency <0.1% (Lu et al., 2000). 

The LIF technique is extremely versatile. The determination of absolute intermediate species concentrations, however, needs either an independent calibration or knowledge of the fluorescence quantum yield, i.e., the ratio of radiative events (detectable fluorescence light) over the sum of all decay processes from the excited quantum state—including predissociation, col-lisional quenching, and energy transfer. This fraction may be quite small (some tenths of a percent, e.g., for the detection of the OH radical in a flame at ambient pressure) and will depend on the local flame composition, pressure, and temperature as well as on the excited electronic state and ro-vibronic level. Short-pulse techniques with picosecond lasers enable direct determination of the quantum yield [14] and permit study of the relevant energy transfer processes [17-20]. 

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