Solvent effects solvatochromism

Each solvent has its own characteristic polarity. Since it is known that all electronic transitions modify the charge distribution of the compound in solution, it is obvious that the position and intensity of the absorption bands will vary a little with the nature of the solvent used. The nature of the solvent/solute interactions are a greater indication of the type of transition. Two contrasting effects can be distinguished. 

This is rather like the n — tt transition of the ketone carbonyl in solution. The C+ —0 form (characterized by its dipolar moment p) will be more and more stabilized as the solvent becomes more polar. The excited state being rapidly attained, the solvent shell surrounding the carbonyl has no time to reorient itself and bring about stabilization following absorption of the photon. This same effect is observed for the n — cr transition and is accompanied by a variation of the coefficient e. 

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Donor strengths, taken from ref. 207b, based upon the solvent effect on the symmetric stretching frequency of the soft Lewis acid HgBr2. Gutmann s donor number taken from ref 207b, based upon AHr for the process of coordination of an isolated solvent molecule to the moderately hard SbCL molecule in dichioroethane. ° Bulk donor number calculated as described in ref 209 from the solvent effect on the adsorption spectrum of VO(acac)2. Taken from ref 58, based on the NMR chemical shift of triethylphosphine oxide in the respective pure solvent. Taken from ref 61, based on the solvatochromic shift of a pyridinium-A-phenoxide betaine dye. 

Sodium nitrite, in monomethine thiazolo-cyanine synthesis, 52 Solvatochromism, of neutrocyanines, 75 of selenazole dyes. 251 Solvent, effect in resonance theory, 71 polarity of, in relation with solvatochromism. 75... 

Solvatochromic pareuaeters, so called because they were Initially derived from solvent effects on UV/visible spectra, have been applied subsequently with success to a wide variety of solvent-dependent phenomena and have demonstrated good predictive ability. The B jo) scale of solvent polarity is based on the position of the intermolecular charge transfer absorption band of Reichardt s betaine dye [506]. Et(io> values are available for over 200 common solvents and have been used by Dorsey and co-%rarkers to study solvent interactions in reversed-phase liquid chromatography (section 4.5.4) [305,306]. For hydrogen-bonding solvents the... 

When we perform experiment in such way that there is no interference of H-bonds or these bonds are stable and structure of solvent also does not varies essentially, solvatochromic plot demonstrates very good linearity as shown, for example, for some naphthylamine derivatives in ethanol-water mixtures. The linearity of solvatochromic plots is often regarded as an evidence for the dominant importance of nonspecific universal intermolecular interaction in the spectral shifts. Specific solvent effects lead to essential deviation of measured points from this linear plot. 

Solvent effects on the charge-transfer salts and solvatochromism... 

In this respect, the solvatochromic approach developed by Kamlet, Taft and coworkers38 which defines four parameters n. a, ji and <5 (with the addition of others when the need arose), to evaluate the different solvent effects, was highly successful in describing the solvent effects on the rates of reactions, as well as in NMR chemical shifts, IR, UV and fluorescence spectra, sol vent-water partition coefficients etc.38. In addition to the polarity/polarizability of the solvent, measured by the solvatochromic parameter ir, the aptitude to donate a hydrogen atom to form a hydrogen bond, measured by a, or its tendency to provide a pair of electrons to such a bond, /, and the cavity effect (or Hildebrand solubility parameter), S, are integrated in a multi-parametric equation to rationalize the solvent effects. 

This solvatochromic solvent effect equation has been probably the most widely used one in the analysis of solvent effects40 and it has been applied to literally hundreds of processes in solution and for the correlation of all kinds of solvents effects39-43. 

In 1976, Kamlet and Taft introduced their solvatochromic comparison method [25, 26], The hydrogen-bond donor acidity a and basicity /3 together with the solvent polarity and polarizability jv were employed to correlate the solvent effects on reaction rates, equilibria, and spectroscopic properties XYZ according to equations of the form... 

The dramatic influence of solvent effects on the UV and visible spectra of certain pyridine compounds, known generally as a solvatochromic effect, has been much utilized in the expression of solvents effects. The polarity parameter. Z or ET is defined (58JA3253, B-68MI204002) from the longest wavelength charge transfer band of 1-ethyl-4-methoxycar-bonylpyridinium iodide (equation 3). 

A surrounding condensed phase can have enormous impacts on the electronic spectroscopy of a given molecule. Certain dye molecules are sufficiently sensitive to the nature of a surrounding solvent that the color of their solutions can vary across the entire visible spectrum depending on the particular solvent chosen. This solvent effect on spectroscopy is known as solvatochromism. 

The oxidation of meta- and para-substituted anilines with imidazolium fluorochro-mate (IFC)18 and nicotinium dichromate (NDC),19 in several organic solvents, in the presence of p-toluenesulfonic acid (TsOH) is first order in the oxidant and TsOH and is zero order with respect to substrate. A correlation of rate data in different solvents with Kamlet-Taft solvatochromic parameters suggests that the specific solute-solvent interactions play a major role in governing the reactivity, and the observed solvent effects have been explained on the basis of solute-solvent complexation. The oxidation rates with NDC exhibited negative reaction constants, while the oxidation with IFC did not correlate well with any linear free energy relationships. 

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