Quantum yield photochemical studies

Studies of actinide photochemistry are always dominated by the reactions that photochemically reduce the uranyl, U(VI), species. Almost any UV-visible light will excite the uranyl species such that the long-lived, 10-lt seconds, excited-state species will react with most reductants, and the quantum yield for this reduction of UQ22+ to U02+ is very near unity (8). Because of the continued high level of interest in uranyl photochemistry and the similarities in the actinyl species, one wonders why aqueous plutonium photochemistry was not investigated earlier. 

Photochemical degradation of brominated dibenzodioxins and fiirans has been studied. Decay of these compounds under environmental conditions is much faster compared to the chlorine analogues due to the higher values for the quantum yields of the bromine compounds. 

The photochemically active bands of methylcobalamin have been identified as the intense hands due to -n—n transitions within the conjugated corrin ring, and the following quantum yields (< ) were obtained A = 490 nm, Similar quantum yields ( = 0.3-0.5) were also obtained for the photolysis of methylcobalamin in acid, where the base has been displaced and protonated, and the complex is present as a mixture of the methylaquo and five coordinate methyl complexes (/40). The effect of varying the second axial ligand on the rate of photolysis by white light has also been studied (134). 

Finally a few sentences are deserved for the vast area of DNA photochemistry. Thymine dimerization is the most common photochemical reaction with the quantum yield of formation in isolated DNA of all-thymine oligodeoxynucleotides 2-3% [3], Furthermore, a recent study based on femtosecond time-resolved transient absorption spectroscopy showed that thymine dimers are formed in less than 1 ps when the strand has an appropriate conformation [258], The low quantum yield of the reaction in regular DNA is suggested to be due to the infrequency of these appropriate reactive conformations. 

The photochemical interconversion of cis- and tra/w-5,6-diphenyl-bicyclo[3.1.0]hexanones has been extensively studied by Zimmerman, Hancock, and Licke.<77) Using isotope dilution analysis, these workers obtained very accurate quantum yields for the various photochemical processes involved in this reaction ... 

This method is perfectly suitable for low concentrations of fluorescent materials. However, in order to study factors which affect the fluorescence quantum yield, such as molecular association or photochemical reactions, much higher concentrations than can be used in the right-angle fluorescence method are required. This follows from the fact that the 0 - 0 vibrational bands in the absorption and emission spectra often overlap. Therefore at relatively high concentrations light emitted at these overlapping wavelengths will be reabsorbed. 

The quantum yields are 0.15-0.21 in ethanol and 0.01-0.02 in an aqueous medium, but in micelles, the quantum yields are five to tenfold increased. The aggregation of these dyes was studied in [53]. The amphiphilic squaraines 4 combine favorable photophysical properties and good solubility in aqueous media and in addition interact efficiently with micelles, and therefore have the potential to be used as NIR fluorescent sensors. However, our own investigations show that aniline-based squaraines lack chemical and photochemical stability when compared to oxo-squaraines with heterocyclic end-groups. 

Photochemical reactions of the pyrimidine polymers in solution were studied to determine the quantum yields of the intramolecular photodimerization of the pyrimidine units along the polymer chains. Photoreactions of the polymers were carried out in very dilute solutions to avoid an intermolecular(interchain) photodimerization. Quantum yields determined at 280 nm for the polymers (1-6 in Figure 1) are listed in Table I. The quantum yield of the 5-bromouracil polymer [poly(MAOU-5Br)] could not be determined because of side reactions of the base during the irradiation. 

The primary photochemical reaction for nitromethane in the gas phase is well supported by experiments to be the dissociation of the C—N bond (equation 98). The picosecond laser-induced fluorescence technique has shown that the ground state NO2 radical is formed in <5 ps with a quantum yield of 0.7 in 264-nm photolysis of nitromethane at low pressure120. The quantum yield of NO2 varies little with wavelength, but the small yields of the excited state NO2 radical increase significantly at 238 nm. In a crossed laser-molecular beam study of nitromethane, it was found that excitation of nitromethane at 266 nm did not yield dissociation products under collision-free conditions121. 

Cyclized polyisoprene has been used as a photoresist by being sensitized with bisazides(1-3). Recently, H.Harada et al. have reported that a partially cyclized 1,2-polybutadiene showed good properties as a practical photoresist material in reproducing submicron patterns (U ). S.Shimazu et al, have studied the photochemical cleavage of 2,6-di(h -azidobenzal)cyclohexanone in a cyclized polyisoprene rubber matrix, and have reported that the principal photoreaction is the simultaneous cleavage of the both azido groups by absorption of a single photon with a U3% quantum yield(5 ). Their result does not support the biphotonic process in the photolysis of bisazide proposed by A.Reiser et al.(6 ). 

When we took ruthenium dodecacarbonyl and studied its photochemical reactions with triphenyl phosphine, we observed an increase in the quantum yield with increasing triphenyl phosphine concentration. The plot is curved and appears to be approaching a limiting value of < >. This implies that there is a reactive intermediate which can undergo competitive reaction, either in the forward direction (where the rate term is k [L]) or in the reverse direction (where the intermediate reverts back... 

Synthesis of B-monosubstituted Borazine Derivatives. The photolytic reaction of borazine with a second reagent is a convenient method for synthesizing a number of B-monosubstituted borazine derivatives. B-monoaminoborazine, produced in the gas phase photolysis of borazine ammonia mixtures with 184.9 nm radiation, was first synthesized by Lee and Porter in 1967. This is the only method currenfly known for generating this compound. A detailed study of the photochemical reaction, under varying conditions of borazine and ammonia pressures, was reported by Neiss and Porter in 1972. The quantum yield for the production of H2 according to the overall Eq. (19) varies from 0.27 and 1.17 when the initial NH3 pressures are varied from 0.1 to 7.0 Torr and the borazine pressure is maintained at 5.0 Torr (Fig. 11). 

Symbolized by cf>, the radiant flux is equivalent to the radiant power P. When the radiant energy Q is constant over the time frame considered, cf> = Q/t. Care should be exercised when using this term and its symbol in photochemical and related studies since is more commonly reserved for quantum yield. 

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