Molecular quantum efficiency

AEi are the activation energies for the respective process. The molecular quantum efficiencies qox and q0y then decrease with increasing temperature according to their definitions. 

At medium concentrations (10"2 mole %) the scintillation intensity is determined mainly by the product of the efficiency of the nonradiating energy transfer /NXy and the molecular quantum efficiency of Y q0Y (3). Because the decrease of the scintillation intensity is maximum at this concentration and (12) because the molecular quantum efficiency q0y does not depend strongly on temperature, the quantum efficiency of the nonradiating energy transfer must decrease. Therefore, the temperature-dependent behavior is determined mainly by the properties of the matrix material. 

For both types of orbitals, the coordinates r, 0 and cji refer to the position of the electron relative to a set of axes attached to the centre on which the basis orbital is located. Although STOs have the proper cusp behaviour near the nuclei, they are used primarily for atomic- and linear-molecule calculations because the multi-centre integrals which arise in polyatomic-molecule calculations caimot efficiently be perfonned when STOs are employed. In contrast, such integrals can routinely be done when GTOs are used. This fiindamental advantage of GTOs has led to the dominance of these fimetions in molecular quantum chemistry. 

Between 1923 and 1927, the concepts of quantum efficiency (number of photons emitted divided by number of photons absorbed by a sample) and quantum yield (fraction of excited molecules that emit) had been defined and values determined for many compounds by Vavilov (34). The quantum yield indicates the extent that other energy loss mechanisms compete with emission in an excited molecule. Although the quantum yield is influenced by the molecular environment of the emitter, for a given environment it depends on the nature of the emitting compound and is independent of concentration and excitation wavelength, at least at low concentrations (35). Tlius, it serves as another measurable parameter that can be used to identify the compounds in a sample and also, because of its sensitivity to the surroundings of the luminophore, to probe the environment of the emitter. 

The quantum efficiency of fluorescence of a molecule is decided by the relative rates of fluorescence, internal conversion and intersystem crossing to the triplet state. Up to the present time it has proved impossible to predict these relative rates. Thus, whilst it is now possible to calculate theoretically the wavelengths of maximum absorption and of maximum fluorescence of an organic molecule, it remains impossible to predict which molecular structures will be strong fluorescers. Design of new FBAs still relies on semi-empirical knowledge plus the instinct of the research chemist. 

H. Murata, C.D. Merritt, H. Inada, Y. Shirota, and Z.H. Kafafi, Molecular organic light-emitting diodes with temperature-independent quantum efficiency and improved thermal durability, Appl. Phys. Lett., 75 3252-3254 (1999). 

The exceptional catalytic properties and structural features of zeolites are a powerful stimulus for both experimental and theoretical research. With the advent of the computer age and with the spectacular development of advanced quantum chemical computational methods in the last decade, one may expect that molecular quantum theory will find more and more practical and even industrial applications. The most rapid progress is expected to occur along the borderline of traditional experimental and theoretical chemistry, where experimental and computational (theoretical) methods can be combined in an efficient manner to solve a variety... 

DHS with higher specific light absorption exhibit somewhat lower quantum efficiencies. However, no significant relationship with a DHS-molecular weight fraction was found. 

The dimethyl ester of this acid in solution shows a quantum efficiency photochemical products. On the other hand, when the same acid is copolymerized with a glycol to form a polymeric compound with molecular weight 10,000 the quantum yield drops by about two orders of magnitude, 0.012. The reason for this behavior appears to be that when the chromophore is in the backbone of a long polymer chain the mobility of the two fragments formed in the photochemical process is severely restricted and as a result the photochemical reactions are much reduced. If radicals are formed the chances are very good that they will recombine within the solvent cage before they can escape and form further products. Presumably the Norrish type II process also is restricted by a mechanism which will be discussed below. 

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