Fluorescence maximum

Single molecules also have promise as probes for local stmcture when doped into materials tliat are tliemselves nonfluorescent. Rlrodamine dyes in botli silicate and polymer tliin films exliibit a distribution of fluorescence maxima indicative of considerable heterogeneity in local environments, particularly for the silicate material [159]. A bimodal distribution of fluorescence intensities observed for single molecules of crystal violet in a PMMA film has been suggested to result from high and low viscosity local sites witliin tire polymer tliat give rise to slow and fast internal conversion, respectively [160]. 

Because aH bonds within the polymethine chain of symmetrical PMDs are significantly equalized and change slightly on excitation, relatively smaH Stokes shifts (500 600 cm ) are observed in their spectra. In unsymmetrical PMDs, the essential bond alternation exists in the ground state. However, bond orders in the excited state are found to be insensitive to the symmetry perturbation. As a result, the deviations of fluorescence maxima, are much lower than those of absorption maxima, (3,10,56—58). The vinylene shifts of fluorescence maxima of unsymmetrical PMDs are practicaHy constant and equal to 100 nm (57). 

Table 3. Chemiluminescence maxima of luminol and fluorescence maxima of 3-amino-phthalate dianion (after J. Lee and H. H. Seliger 115>)...

Similarly, the affixment of conjugate substituents onto aromatic systems extends the conjugation of the latter and causes fluorescence maxima of the substituted derivatives to lie at wavelengths longer than those of the parent compound. Hence, the fluorescence of aniline lies at 340 nm while that of the parent hydrocarbon benzene lies at 262 nm. 

Fig. 3 Typical ICT probes (left) and representative spectroscopic responses toward selected metal ions (right). Color code (left) coordinating atoms in blue, bridgehead atom of the fluorophore that takes part in complexation in orange, formal donor fragment in red, formal acceptor fragment in green (right) hypsochromic shifts in red, bathochromic shifts in green, fluorescence enhancement in violet, fluorescence quenching in blue. Symbols in table Aabs, 7em,

Cross-reactive sensing arrays were developed to detect odors and vapors in an artificial nose manner. Solvatochromic dyes such as Nile Red are adsorbed on the surface or embedded into various polymeric or porous silica beads. The beads respond to analyte vapor by a change in fluorescence maxima or/and intensity due to changes of polarity inside the bead. A portable instrument and preliminary field test for the detection of petroleum products was recently described [106]. 

As an example, for spiro-oligophenyls in the series 35a-d with 4, 6, 8, and 10 phenyl rings in the chromophore, the absorption maxima are 332, 342, 344, and 344 nm in dichloromethane, respectively. The first fluorescence maxima increase... 

Table 2 Formation Constants K), Fluorescence Maxima (Xmax), Fluorescence Lifetimes (x), the One-Electron Reduction Potentials (E°ed ) of the Singlet Excited States of Mg(C104)2, Sc(OTf)3 and MesSiOTf Complexes of Aromatic Carbonyl Compounds...

The fluorescence maxima of the xanthene dyes in methanol were found to be shifted to the red by about 800 cm"1.81 As the fluorescence spectra are approximately mirror images of the corresponding absorption spectra, the rate constant of the radiative step [eq. (6)), k2, was calculated using Forster s95 equation... 

Dipole Moments from Solvent Effect on Exciplex Fluorescence Maxima ... 

The wavenumbers of absorption and fluorescence maxima at two difleren acidities are ... 

The UV-visible absorption and fluorescence spectra of NKX-2311 in solution are measured. The absorption and fluorescence maxima are located at 490 and 555 nm, respectively. The fluorescence spectrum is shown in Fig. 1. This figure also shows the transient absorption spectrum of NKX-2311 in deuterated methanol (CD3OD) solution measured by the nanosecond laser system. The spectrum is ascribed to the excited singlet state (dye ). The absorption spectrum of the oxidized form of NKX-2311 (dye+) was measured by nanosecond transient absorption spectroscopy after adding electron acceptor, 1,4-benzoquinone, in NKX-2311 solution of CD3OD. As shown in Fig. 1, there are two characteristic peaks at around 875 and 1010 nm. 

Evidence for conformers of urease has been presented by two groups of investigators. Chernitskii et al. (51) noted fluorescence maxima at pH 3-4, 5.5-6.5, 7.5-9, and >10.5 when urease solutions were irradiated with 280 or 296 nm radiation. Addition of urea increased the fluorescence... 

Fluorescence detection was employed for quantitation of coumarins because of sensitivity and specificity. However, monitoring the fluorescence at one wavelength was not sufficient to observe all of the coumarin derivatives. A wide range of fluorescence maxima (314-346 nm for excitation and 420 -517 nm for emission) for coumarins are also utilized possibly to identify the individual components and selectively to enhance the fluorescence of coumarins in citrus oils (25). 

FIGURE 3. Correlation between arene (D) ionization potential and the energy of the absorption maxima of tetracyanoethylene chargetransfer complexes (O) and fluorescence maxima of fumaronitrile complexes (A). Filled symbols are for trans-stilbene. 

Fluorescence from the excited state complexes of t-1 and electron poor alkenes has been observed only with dimethylfuma-rate and fumaronitrile, both of which form weak ground state complexes with t-1 (76). Fluorescence of the same wavelength and lifetime is observed upon quenching of t or excitation in the charge-transfer absorption band of the complexes of t-1 with these acceptors. Some properties of these excited complexes and other exciplexes of t-1 are summarized in Table 7. Fluorescence maxima, like the absorption maxima, of related charge-transfer complexes, can be correlated with the donor ionization potentials (eq. 16). As shown in Fig. 3, the point for t-1 falls well below the line obtained by Shirota and co-workers (87) for the com-... 

Some properties of the t -dimethylhexadiene exciplex are summarized in Table 7. Its fluorescence maximum is at slightly shorter wavelength than that of the anthracene-dimethylhexadiene exciplex (435 nm) (51). While data on other unsubstituted arene-diene exciplexes are not available, t appears to be more reactive and to form more stable exciplexes with dienes than arenes of comparable electron affinity (101). The dipole moment of the - -t -dimethylhexadiene exciplex is estimated to be 7 D from the solvent dependence of its fluorescence maxima (36). This value is substantially lower than those for pure charge-transfer exciplexes (p > 15 D) and indicates that this exciplex is relatively nonpolar and might be better categorized as a hetero-excimer, than as an exciplex (83). That is, using the normal resonance description of an exciplex... 

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